44th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120278036 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT METHOD BASED ON WAVELET TRANSFORM - A new three-dimensional measurement method based on wavelet transform to solve the phase distribution of a fringe pattern accurately and obtain three-dimensional profile information of a measured object from phase distribution. The method includes: projecting a monochrome sinusoidal fringe pattern onto the object; performing wavelet transform for the deformed fringe pattern acquired with CCD line by line, solving the relative phase distribution by detecting the wavelet ridge line, recording the wavelet transform scale factors at the line, and creating a quality map; dividing the relative phase distribution into two parts according to the map, and performing direct-phase unwrapping for the part with better reliability using a scan line based algorithm, and unwrapping the part with lower reliability using a flood algorithm under the guide of the quality map, to obtain the absolute phase distribution of the fringe pattern; obtaining the three dimensional information using a phase-height conversion. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278037 | Mass-Analysis Data Processing Method and System - Provided is a technique for using an optical microscope image of an area on a sample to collect area-specific information characterizing each kind of biological tissue from imaging mass analysis data. On an optical image of a two-dimensional target area on a sample, a difference is examined in the kind of tissue or other features and areas are specified, each regarded as the same kind of tissue. When data processing is initiated, peak information is extracted, for each specified area, from mass spectrum data of all the measurement points. A peak method is applied to each area to extract peak information. Then, when a command to compare a set of areas is given, the peak information of those areas is collected. By comparing the peak information of different areas by a machine learning algorithm or similar judging technique, area-specific peak information is obtained, and this information is stored in memory. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278038 | ESTIMATING MONTHLY HEATING OIL CONSUMPTION FROM FISCAL YEAR OIL CONSUMPTION DATA USING MULTIPLE REGRESSION AND HEATING DEGREE DAY DENSITY FUNCTION - Estimating monthly heating oil consumption of a building that uses heating oil and non-oil source of energy, may include separating by applying statistical models, yearly consumption of oil data associated with the building into base load oil consumption and space heating oil consumption. The separating may also include determining monthly base load oil consumption associated with the building. Monthly space heating consumption of oil may be estimated by applying a heating degree day density function to the space heating oil consumption. The monthly space heating consumption may be aggregated with the monthly base load oil consumption to estimate the monthly heating oil consumption. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278039 | Methods of Improving Detectors and Classifiers Using Optimized Stochastic Resonance Noise - Apparatus and method for improving the performance of a threshold-based detector or classifier, or a generic detector or classifier and increasing the probability of detecting at least one object in an image using novel algorithms and stochastic resonance noise is provided, where a suitable dose of noise is introduced to the image data such that the performance of the above-referenced detectors or classifiers is improved without altering the detector's or classifier's parameters. Several stochastic resonance (SR) noise-based detection and classification enhancement schemes are presented. The SR noise-enhanced detection and classification schemes can improve any algorithms and systems. To implement these schemes, the only knowledge that is needed is the original input data (no matter 1D, 2D, 3D or others) and the output (detection results) of the existing algorithms and systems. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278040 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CHARACTERISTICS OF AN AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - A method of determining a fill current value of a converter lock-up clutch of an automatic transmission. The automatic transmission comprises a hydrodynamic converter, at which a speed ratio arises, and an output shaft. In a control sequence with the output shaft being stationary, the speed ratio is influenced by changing the control current, and the fill current value is determined from the progression of the speed ratio arising, during the control sequence, in conjunction with the progression of the control current. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278041 | Measurement and Tuning of Hands Free Telephone Systems - An arrangement is described for measuring performance characteristics of a hands free telephone system. There is a measurement system which is coupleable over a telephone audio interface directly to the hands free telephone system for measuring the performance characteristics. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278042 | Field Device for Process Instrumentation - A field device for process instrumentation comprising a measurement transducer having an analog output to which a two-wire line can be connected for transmitting an analog output signal, wherein a unit galvanically separates the processor from an analog output circuit. A read-back channel for a pulse-width modulated digital signal, which is tapped behind an element for galvanic separation, is provided for monitoring generation of the analog output signal, and a unit is provided for monitoring the analog output signal to maintain a specifiable maximum deviation from a reference signal, which is generated in the same manner as the analog output signal by low-pass filtering from the pulse-width modulated digital signal. In the case of transient signals, the monitoring unit advantageously detects error states quickly and appropriate measures for reacting to the error states can therefore be implemented in less time. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278043 | Fibre Optic Distributed Sensing - The application describes methods and apparatus for distributed fibre sensing, especially distributed acoustic/strain sensing. The method involves launching interrogating radiation in to an optical fibre and sampling radiation backscattered from within said fibre at a rate so as to acquire a plurality of samples corresponding to each sensing portion of interest. The plurality of samples are divided into separate processing channels and processed to determine a phase value for that channel. A quality metric is then applied to the processed phase data and the data combined to provide an overall phase value for the sensing portion based on the quality metric. The quality metric may be a measure of the degree of similarity of the processed data from the channels. The interrogating radiation may comprise two relatively narrow pulses separated by a relatively wide gap and the sampling rate may be set such that a plurality of substantially independent diversity samples are acquired. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278044 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING TRANSMISSIONS OF MEASUREMENTS PERIODICALLY CARRIED OUT BY A SENSOR - A method and device are provided for managing transmissions of a plurality of sets of measurements performed periodically by a measurement sensor capable of communicating with a collection device via a radio network. The method determines, according to a random distribution law, a date of transmission for each set of measurements of the plurality and transmits a message relating to at least one set of measurements, on one of the dates of transmission determined for the plurality. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278045 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER, COMPUTER SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ALLOCATING PLAN FOR IT EQUIPMENT - There are a large number of operation workload reallocating plans, but in terms of a required calculation resource, it is undesirable to, in each case, derive power consumption required for a cooling apparatus, select and control operation workload deployment for minimizing a total value of the derived power consumption and server power. The present invention derives a rule about the IT workload allocation in advance from configuration information (static information) including position information of facilities including an air conditioner of the data center and the IT equipment items, changes priority of an applied rule on the basis of dynamic information including ambient temperature, and changes the IT workload allocation, thereby reducing the power consumption of the air conditioner. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278046 | INTERACTIVE CONFIGURATION-MANAGEMENT-BASED DIAGRAMMING TOOL - Product data management systems, methods, and mediums. A method includes receiving PDM model and applying a template to the model. The method includes creating a description file based on the application of the template to the model. The method includes transferring the description file to a diagramming application. A diagram corresponding to the description file is created. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278047 | VISUAL BOOKMARKS FOR HOME AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN - Systems, methods, and computer program products for use in generating a home design layout are described. The method includes receiving a request to generate a visual bookmark for a home design product based on a selection of the home design product from a website and extracting information about the home design product from the website. The method also includes categorizing the home design product based on the information and generating the visual bookmark for the home design product, the visual bookmark comprising an image of the home design product and information related to the home design product. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278048 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING MODAL DAMPING RATIO OF COMPOSITE HEAD - A prediction method according to the present invention is a method for predicting a modal damping ratio of a composite head including two or more kinds of materials including a first material and a second material. The method includes the steps of: presuming at least a coefficient Px of a generalized Maxwell model M1 in the first material using a known material damping ratio ζ1; obtaining a calculation model of the head using the generalized Maxwell model M1; and calculating the modal damping ratio of the head based on analysis of the head using the calculation model. Preferably, the Maxwell model is further used also for the second material. Preferably, the method further includes the step of presuming a coefficient Py of a generalized Maxwell model M2 in the second material using a known material damping ratio ζ2. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278049 | GEOMETRY SIMPLIFICATION APPARATUS, GEOMETRY SIMPLIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A geometry simplification apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether another component is in contact with a simplification target place, a simplification unit configured to simplify the geometry of the simplification target place, a determination unit configured to determine whether another component is in contact with the simplification target place of which the geometry is simplified, a comparison unit configured to compare contact relationship between another component and the simplification target place before and after the simplification of the geometry of the simplification target place, and a correction unit configured to correct the geometry of the component in which the geometry of the simplification target place is simplified to a geometry which does not interfere with another component according to comparison results by the contact relationship comparison unit. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278050 | Accelerated Generation of Circuit Parameter Distribution Using Monte Carlo Simulation - A method includes providing an integrated circuit device comprising a plurality of input parameters and an electrical parameter. A simulation is performed using a simulation model to simulate a plurality of data of the electrical parameter, wherein the plurality of data are generated through simulation from a first plurality of input parameter sets reflecting values of the plurality of input parameters, and wherein the plurality of data is distributed in a range. A first sub-range among the range is selected. All of the plurality of data falling into the first sub-range are selected, and are fitted with corresponding ones of the first input parameter sets to generate a first function, wherein the electrical parameter is expressed as the first function of the plurality of input parameters. The first function is different from functions in the simulation model. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278051 | ANOMALY DETECTION, FORECASTING AND ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR A PORTFOLIO OF BUILDINGS USING MULTI-STEP STATISTICAL MODELING - Multi-step statistical modeling in one embodiment of the present disclosure enables anomaly detection, forecasting and/or root cause analysis of the energy consumption for a portfolio of buildings using multi-step statistical modeling. In one aspect, energy consumption data associated with a building, building characteristic data associated with the building, building operation and activities data associated with the building, and weather data are used to generate a variable based degree model. A base load factor, a heating coefficient and a cooling coefficient associated with the building and an error term are determined from the variable based degree model and used to generate a plurality of multivariate regression models. A time series model is generated for the error term to model seasonal factors which reflect monthly dependence on energy use and an auto-regressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA) which reflects temporal dependent patterns of the energy use. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278052 | System and Method for Determining Fluid Flow of Compressible and Non-Compressible Liquids - A system and method for determining fluid flow of compressible and non-compressible liquids is described. The system may include input means for receiving a model of an object defined as a plurality of cells having a plurality of nodes P, and a processor coupled to a memory. The processor may be configured for: discretizing a partial differential equation (PDE) corresponding to the received model; for each node P: (i) locating all neighbouring cells that share the node P, each of the neighbouring cells having a cell center; (ii) approximating the PDE at the cell center of the neighbouring cells using the discretized PDE; and (iii) updating a solution of the PDE at the node P by using the approximated discretized PDE at all the neighbouring cell centers; and iteratively updating the solution for all the nodes P from an initial guess until a convergence criterion is satisfied. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278053 | Method of Providing Flow Control Devices for a Production Wellbore - A method of providing a production string for a wellbore formed in a formation is disclosed. The method, in one embodiment may include: defining a performance criterion for flow of a fluid from a formation into a wellbore; performing a simulation using a processor, a simulation program, a parameter of the fluid, a parameter of the formation and a parameter of the wellbore to determine a first flow characteristic of the flow of the fluid from the formation into the wellbore corresponding to an initial set of flow control devices arranged in the wellbore; performing one or more additional simulations using the processor, the simulation program and the parameters of formation, fluid and wellbore to determine a new flow characteristic of the flow of the fluid from the formation into the wellbore for a new set of flow control devices until a new determined characteristic of the flow of the fluid from the formation into the wellbore meets the performance criterion; and storing results of simulation results relating to the flow control devices in a suitable storage medium. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278054 | METHOD FOR AFFINITY SCORING OF PEPTIDE/PROTEIN COMPLEXES - The present invention is related to a quantitative structure-based affinity scoring method for peptide/protein complexes. More specifically, the present invention comprises a method that operates on the basis of a highly specific force field function (e.g. CHARMM) that is applied to all-atom structural representations of peptide/receptor complexes. Peptide side-chain contributions to total affinity are scored after detailed rotameric sampling followed by controlled energy refinement. The method of the invention further comprises a de novo approach to estimate dehydration energies from the simulation of individual amino acids in a solvent box filled with explicit water molecules and applying the same force field function as used to evaluate peptide/receptor complex interactions. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278055 | MOTION CORRECTION IN RADIATION THERAPY - A diagnostic imaging system includes a tomographic scanner | 2012-11-01 |
20120278056 | Characterizing Performance of an Electronic System - In one embodiment of the present invention, the performance of an electronic circuit having a clock path between a clock source cell and a clock leaf cell is characterized over a simulation duration, where the clock path has one or more intermediate cells. Variations in the effective power supply voltage level of at least one intermediate cell over the simulation duration are determined using a system-level power-grid simulation tool. Static timing analysis (STA) software is used to determine cell delays for at least one of the intermediate cells for different clock-signal transitions at different times during the simulation duration. The cell delays are then used to generate one or more metrics characterizing the performance of the electronic circuit, such as maximum and minimum pulse widths, maximum cycle-to-cycle jitter, and maximum periodic jitter. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278057 | PHYSICAL REALIZATIONS OF A UNIVERSAL ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTER - Devices, methods and articles advantageously allow communications between qubits to provide an architecture for universal adiabatic quantum computation. The architecture includes a first coupled basis A | 2012-11-01 |
20120278058 | PLC SIMULATOR BASED ON RECONFIGURABLE COMPONENTS - Provided is a PLC simulator including a component configuration unit receiving a command from a user to controllably perform a simulation, and a simulation unit receiving a command from the component configuration unit to perform a simulation of a connected external PLC, whereby a user is provided with a convenient environment capable of simulating a variety of systems through reconfigurable component, and a user is capable of reducing a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) by being provided with a testing environment maximally similar to that of an actual apparatus through application of external input conditions. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXAMINING CONCURRENT SYSTEM STATES - A computer-implemented process, computer program product, and apparatus for examining concurrent system state space models. A system has concurrent events to create a modeled system. A minimal chain decomposition of the modeled system is created to identify a set of chains. All chains in the set of chains are extended, and a first set of paths is generated, wherein the first set of paths is a minimal set of paths covering all states of the modeled system. The first set of paths is explored. It is optionally determined whether all transitions have been covered. Responsive to a determination that all transitions have not been covered, remaining paths are explored by traversing a graph induced by the modeled system using a depth-first strategy. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIDENCE-WEIGHTED LEARNING OF FACTORED DISCRIMINATIVE LANGUAGE MODELS - A system and method for building a language model for a translation system are provided. The method includes providing a first relative ranking of first and second translations in a target language of a same source string in a source language, determining a second relative ranking of the first and second translations using weights of a language model, the language model including a weight for each of a set of n-gram features, and comparing the first and second relative rankings to determine whether they are in agreement. The method further includes, when the rankings are not in agreement, updating one or more of the weights in the language model as a function of a measure of confidence in the weight, the confidence being a function of previous observations of the n-gram feature in the method. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278061 | GENERATING ACOUSTIC MODELS - This document describes methods, systems, techniques, and computer program products for generating and/or modifying acoustic models. Acoustic models and/or transformations for a target language/dialect can be generated and/or modified using acoustic models and/or transformations from a source language/dialect. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278062 | Machine translation method and system - A machine translation method and system comprises the steps of (a) formalizing a non-formal source language in an interactive or automatic way and (b) transforming the formal source language into a formal or non-formal target language in an automatic way. It completely eliminates the language barrier between person and person and the language barrier between person and computer: A user translates his/her non-formal native language entirely correctly and without any lexical ambiguity into any non-formal foreign language which he/she knows nothing about; a user and a computer exchange information in his/her non-formal native language entirely correctly and without any lexical ambiguity. It can be used in network terminal equipment, Internet knowledge bases, knowledge reasoning search engines, expert systems and automatic programming. That formalization of a source language is the common foundation for transformation into various target languages makes it especially suitable for multilingual machine translation. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278063 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MULTIPLE LANGUAGES IN IMAGE MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS - An electronic device connected to a measurement machine is installed with an image measurement program. The electronic device records detailed information in relation to a new language file added to a template file provided by the image measurement program, and creates one or more executable files for the image measurement program based on the template file. When the image measurement program is started, the electronic device adds the new language to a language selection menu of a user interface of the image measurement program by executing the one or more executable files, displays all languages available to the image measurement program under the language selection menu of the user interface, and after selection and displays all information in a user-selected language. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SENTIMENT FROM TEXT CONTENT - A system and method for determining sentiment from user-generated text content is provided. A sentiment score is determined for one or more terms in a user-generated text content. A sentiment value is determined for the text content that is based at least in part on the sentiment score for the one or more terms. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278065 | GENERATING SNIPPET FOR REVIEW ON THE INTERNET - A method and system for generating snippet for review on the Internet. The method includes the steps of: receiving a review and a set of feedbacks corresponding to the review, where the review includes a plurality of evaluating sentences that evaluates product features of a product; calculating support degrees of each of the plurality of evaluating sentences by using the set of feedbacks; extracting, by relying on calculated support degrees of each of the evaluating sentences, at least one of the evaluating sentences from the plurality of evaluating sentences; and designating extracted evaluating sentence as a snippet of the review; where at least one of the steps is carried out by using a computer device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278066 | COMMUNICATION INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MULTI-USER AND SYSTEM - A communication interface apparatus for a system and a plurality of users is provided. The communication interface apparatus for the system and the plurality of users includes a first process unit configured to receive voice information and face information from at least one user, and determine whether the received voice information is voice information of at least one registered user based on user models corresponding to the respective received voice information and face information; a second process unit configured to receive the face information, and determine whether the at least one user's attention is on the system based on the received face information; and a third process unit configured to receive the voice information, analyze the received voice information, and determine whether the received voice information is substantially meaningful to the system based on a dialog model that represents conversation flow on a situation basis. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278067 | VECTOR QUANTIZATION DEVICE, VOICE CODING DEVICE, VECTOR QUANTIZATION METHOD, AND VOICE CODING METHOD - Provided are a vector quantization device, a voice coding device, a vector quantization method, and a voice coding method which enable a reduction in the calculation amount of voice codec without deterioration of voice quality. In the vector quantization device, a first reference vector calculation unit ( | 2012-11-01 |
20120278068 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A voice activity detection method and apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: obtaining a time domain parameter and a frequency domain parameter from an audio frame; obtaining a first distance between the time domain parameter and a long-term slip mean of the time domain parameter in a history background noise frame, and obtaining a second distance between the frequency domain parameter and a long-term slip mean of the frequency domain parameter in the history background noise frame; and determining whether the audio frame is a foreground voice frame or a background noise frame according to the first distance, the second distance and a set of decision inequalities based on the first distance and the second distance. The above technical solutions enable the determination criterion to have an adaptive adjustment capability, thus improving the performance of the voice activity detection. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278069 | METHOD OF QUANTIZING LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING COEFFICIENTS, SOUND ENCODING METHOD, METHOD OF DE-QUANTIZING LINEAR PREDICTIVE CODING COEFFICIENTS, SOUND DECODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFOR - A quantizing method is provided that includes quantizing an input signal by selecting one of a first quantization scheme not using an inter-frame prediction and a second quantization scheme using the inter-frame prediction, in consideration of one or more of a prediction mode, a predictive error and a transmission channel state. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278070 | COMBINED MICROPHONE AND EARPHONE AUDIO HEADSET HAVING MEANS FOR DENOISING A NEAR SPEECH SIGNAL, IN PARTICULAR FOR A " HANDS-FREE" TELEPHONY SYSTEM - The headset comprises: a physiological sensor suitable for being coupled to the cheek or the temple of the wearer of the headset and for picking up non-acoustic voice vibration transmitted by internal bone conduction; lowpass filter means for filtering the signal as picked up; a set of microphones picking up acoustic voice vibration transmitted by air from the mouth of the wearer of the headset; highpass filter means and noise-reduction means for acting on the signals picked up by the microphones; and mixer means for combining the filtered signals to output a signal representative of the speech uttered by the wearer of the headset. The signal of the physiological sensor is also used by means for calculating the cutoff frequency of the lowpass and highpass filters and by means for calculating the probability that speech is absent. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278071 | TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM - A transcription system automates the control of the playback of the audio to accommodate the user's ability to transcribe the words spoken. In some examples, a delay between playback and typed input is estimated by processing the typed words using a wordspotting approach. The estimated delay is used as in input to an automated speed control, for example, to maintain a target or maximum delay between playback and typed input. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278072 | REMOTE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND HEALTHCARE METHOD USING THE SAME - A remote healthcare system includes a healthcare staff terminal which includes an input part configured to input text to be transmitted to a patient by a healthcare staff member, and a first transmitter-receiver part configured to transmit the text and a qualifier of the healthcare staff member; a server which includes a second transmitter-receiver part configured to receive the text and the qualifier of the healthcare staff member transmitted from the healthcare staff terminal, an acoustic source database having an acoustic source of the healthcare staff member stored therein, and a converter configured to change the text into voice using the stored acoustic source of the healthcare staff member; and a patient terminal which includes a third transmitter-receiver part configured to receive the voice converted from the text and the text transmitted by the second transmitter-receiver part of the server, and an output part configured to output the voice to the patient who is managed by the healthcare staff member. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278073 | MOBILE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SUPPORTING NATURAL LANGUAGE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTIONS - A mobile system is provided that includes speech-based and non-speech-based interfaces for telematics applications. The mobile system identifies and uses context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for users that submit requests and/or commands in multiple domains. The invention creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command. The invention may organize domain specific behavior and information into agents, that are distributable or updateable over a wide area network. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278074 | MULTISENSORY SPEECH DETECTION - A computer-implemented method of multisensory speech detection is disclosed. The method comprises determining an orientation of a mobile device and determining an operating mode of the mobile device based on the orientation of the mobile device. The method further includes identifying speech detection parameters that specify when speech detection begins or ends based on the determined operating mode and detecting speech from a user of the mobile device based on the speech detection parameters. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278075 | System and Method for Community Feedback and Automatic Ratings for Speech Metrics - A system and method for collecting from an ASR, a first rating of an intelligibility of human speech, and collecting another intelligibility rating of such speech from networked listeners to such speech. The first rating and the second rating are weighed based on an importance to a user of the ratings, and a third rating is created from such weighted two ratings. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278076 | DISAMBIGUATION OF CONTACT INFORMATION USING HISTORICAL DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for disambiguating contact information are described. A method includes determining, for each of multiple communications that were initiated by a user of a mobile device, a time when the communication was initiated or received; determining, for each of multiple contacts associated with the user, a probability associated with the contact based at least on the times when the communications were initiated or received; weighting a contact disambiguation grammar according to the probabilities; and processing audio data using the contact disambiguation grammar to select a particular contact. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278077 | IDENTIFICATION OF PEOPLE USING MULTIPLE TYPES OF INPUT - Systems and methods for detecting people or speakers in an automated fashion are disclosed. A pool of features including more than one type of input (like audio input and video input) may be identified and used with a learning algorithm to generate a classifier that identifies people or speakers. The resulting classifier may be evaluated to detect people or speakers. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278078 | INPUT AND DISPLAYED INFORMATION DEFINITION BASED ON AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION DURING A COMMUNICATION SESSION - Methods and systems for providing contextually relevant information to a user are provided. In particular, a user context is determined. The determination of the user context can be made from information stored on or entered in a user device. The determined user context is provided to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine as a watch list. A voice stream is monitored by the ASR engine. In response to the detection of a word on the watch list by the ASR engine, the context engine is notified. The context engine then modifies a display presented to the user, to provide a selectable item that the user can select to access relevant information. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278079 | COMPRESSED PHONETIC REPRESENTATION - An audio processing system makes use of a number of levels of compression or data reduction, thereby providing reduced storage requirements while maintaining a high accuracy of keyword detection in the original audio input. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278080 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR DETERMINING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - A method and communication device for determining contextual information is provided. Textual information is received from at least one of an input device and a communication interface at the communication device. The textual information is processed to automatically extract contextual data embedded in the textual information in response to the receiving. Supplementary contextual data is automatically retrieved based on the contextual data from a remote data source via the communication interface in response to the processing. The supplementary contextual data is automatically rendered at the display device in association with the contextual data in response to receiving the supplementary contextual data. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278081 | TEXT TO SPEECH METHOD AND SYSTEM - A text-to-speech method for use in a plurality of languages, including: inputting text in a selected language; dividing the inputted text into a sequence of acoustic units; converting the sequence of acoustic units to a sequence of speech vectors using an acoustic model, wherein the model has a plurality of model parameters describing probability distributions which relate an acoustic unit to a speech vector; and outputting the sequence of speech vectors as audio in the selected language. A parameter of a predetermined type of each probability distribution in the selected language is expressed as a weighted sum of language independent parameters of the same type. The weighting used is language dependent, such that converting the sequence of acoustic units to a sequence of speech vectors includes retrieving the language dependent weights for the selected language. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278082 | COMBINING WEB BROWSER AND AUDIO PLAYER FUNCTIONALITY TO FACILITATE ORGANIZATION AND CONSUMPTION OF WEB DOCUMENTS - The invention is directed to combining web browser and audio player functionality for the organization and consumption of web documents. Specifically, the invention identifies a set of web documents via a web browser, extracts content from the web documents, and adds the set of web documents to a playlist. In this way, users can build a playlist of web documents and utilize the functionality and convenience of an audio player and listen to the content of the playlist. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278083 | VOICE CONTROLLED DEVICE AND METHOD - A voice control device includes a storage module, a voice recording module, and a processing module. The storage module stores a number of computerized voice commands. The voice recording module records audio signals of a user. The processing module processes the recorded voice signals to a machine readable command, determines whether the determined machine readable command matches one stored computerized voice command, and controls the device to execute a function according to the machine readable command if the determined machine readable command matches one stored computerized voice command. The processing module stores the determined machine readable command as a history command. The processing module further obtains all the history commands and determines which function the voice controlled device is to do according to the history commands if the determined machine readable command is partially the same as at least two of the stored computerized voice commands. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278084 | METHOD FOR SELECTING ELEMENTS IN TEXTUAL ELECTRONIC LISTS AND FOR OPERATING COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PROGRAMS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE COMMANDS - A method for controlling a program by natural language allows a user to efficiently operate a computer-implemented target program through intuitive natural language commands. A list of natural language commands related to the target program is compiled. Each natural language command is stored as an element in an electronic list. Natural language commands generally consist of short sentences comprising at least a predicate (a verb) and an object (a noun). A user can filter the list of natural language commands by entering the initials of a natural language command. The user enters the first character of the first word to be filtered, followed by the first character of the second word to be filtered, and so forth. Filtering by initials very rapidly reduces the number of choices presented to a user and minimizes the number of keystrokes required to select a particular list element. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278085 | METHOD AND A DECODER FOR ATTENUATION OF SIGNAL REGIONS RECONSTRUCTED WITH LOW ACCURACY - The embodiments of the present invention improves conventional attenuation schemes by replacing constant attenuation with an adaptive attenuation scheme that allows more aggressive attenuation, without introducing audible change of signal frequency characteristics. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278086 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A REGION-DEPENDENT ARITHMETIC CODING MAPPING RULE - An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information includes an 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 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 a numeric current context value describing the current context state in dependence on a plurality of previously decoded spectral values and also in dependence on whether a spectral value to be decoded is in a first predetermined frequency region or in a second predetermined frequency region. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278087 | MULTIBAND COMPRESSOR AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING THE SAME - Disclosed is a multiband compressor for applying dynamic compression to each of a plurality of bands of an audio signal that has been divided into frequency bands, then applying additive synthesis and outputting thereof; wherein power that is input to or output from each of the plurality of the bands is measured, and frequency bands are set on the basis of differences in power between each of the neighboring bands. Alternatively, power that is input to each of the plurality of bands is measured, a predetermined relative threshold is added to values for which a measured voltage has been smoothed, and a threshold to be given for dynamic compression processing for each of the plurality of bands is set. As a result, a multi-band compressor is provided for which an appropriate volume increase effect can be obtained regardless of what kind of signal is input. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278088 | Subband Block Based Harmonic Transposition - The present document relates to audio source coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), as well as to digital effect processors, e.g. exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion add brightness to the processed signal, and to time stretchers where a signal duration is prolonged with maintained spectral content. A system and method configured to generate a time stretched and/or frequency transposed signal from an input signal is described. The system comprises an analysis filterbank ( | 2012-11-01 |
20120278089 | ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO SIGNAL USING THE SAME - An error concealment method and apparatus for an audio signal and a decoding method and apparatus for an audio signal using the error concealment method and apparatus. The error concealment method includes selecting one of an error concealment in a frequency domain and an error concealment in a time domain as an error concealment scheme for a current frame based on a predetermined criteria when an error occurs in the current frame, selecting one of a repetition scheme and an interpolation scheme in the frequency domain as the error concealment scheme for the current frame based on a predetermined criteria when the error concealment in the frequency domain is selected, and concealing the error of the current frame using the selected scheme. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278090 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING HOSPITALITY FACILITIES - Systems and methods are provided for managing a plurality of hospitality facilities. A property management component and an external component are located remotely from the plurality of hospitality facilities. The property management component is integrated with the external component to provide hospitality services at the plurality of hospitality facilities. The external component includes a loyalty component that interacts with the integrated system for providing a user with access to the hospitality services e.g., purchasing, at one of the plurality of hospitality facilities. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278091 | SALES PREDICTION AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - One method can involve accessing a global database of sales cycle information. The global database comprises first confidential information for a first salesperson, where the confidential nature of the first information prevents the first information from being accessed by a second salesperson. The method then generates information indicating a lead for the second salesperson based upon the global database and, in particular, the first confidential information. The method can also generate information indicating a basis for the lead. In one embodiment, the first salesperson works in a different office than the second salesperson. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278092 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computer system that is adapted for: (A) displaying a geographical map on a display screen; (B) displaying a plurality of icons on the geographical map, each of which generally represents the current location of at least one individual; (C) allowing a user to select a group of the icons; and (D) after the user selects the group of icons, providing messaging functionality for allowing the user to send a common message to the respective portable computing devices of at least substantially all of the individuals who correspond to the selected group of icons. In particular embodiments, the system allows the user to send the message by executing a single activity, such as selecting a single button. The system may also be configured to approximate the current location of an individual based on the individual's current travel itinerary. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING AND PROCESSING PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION - Approaches for converting analog health information to a digital database are described. Worksheets comprising questions for a patient are displayed in an interface that can be used to review and edit responses. A system receives responses to the questions, displays the responses, and sends the responses to a healthcare provider. The system includes a provider interface that can be used to annotate and edit worksheet data. The system converts and declares a worksheet as a medical record for the patient. The system securely stores worksheet data and medical records and receives a selection of a subset of this information. The system grants access to the subset of information to designated entities. The system concisely presents health information for analysis and workflow improvement. The system receives login credentials, determines a login type, and displays an interface based upon the login type. The system securely transmits personal health information to designated entities. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278094 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HEALTH CARE RECORD, WORKFLOW, AND BILLING MANAGEMENT USING MOBILE DEVICES - The present invention relates to health care, and more particularly to a dynamic and mobile platform for providing comprehensive health care record and workflow management, including management of medical billing, that can be configured for healthcare professionals who do not necessarily practice from a single location, and may practice frequently from locations outside of their primary practice location. The technology provides a health care data capture, analysis and user interface solution that simplifies and expedites the billing procedure for healthcare professionals. Additionally, the technology described herein supports healthcare professionals who may work as a team, and need to communicate and collaborate with each other while rendering their services. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278095 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MANAGING THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT PROTOCOLS WITHIN TRUSTED HEALTH-USER COMMUNITIES - Systems and methods of creating, managing and accessing treatment plans for patients having a condition are disclosed herein. Patients have CarePods created for the treatment of their condition and their doctors and other caregiver relevant to their treatment. In one embodiment, treatment plans may be constructed by a plurality of modules that may input data and metadata regarding the condition, the treatment, potential medications, potential medical monitoring equipment. Such treatment plans may be employed as a template for other CarePods and other patients. In other embodiments, data from the treatment may be collected to inform caregivers the response of the patient to treatment. In addition, data from the treatment of a condition may be aggregated from a plurality of patients being treated for a condition. This aggregated data may be used to deduce the efficacy of a particular treatment to a condition. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278096 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUG AUTHENTICATION IN SUPPLY CHAIN AND MARKET DISTRIBUTION - The present invention generally relates to systems, methods and devices for prescription drug authentication and more specifically a portable hand-held device and system for prescription drug authentication to be conducted ad hoc. Although preferred embodiments of the invention are explained in detail, it is to be understood that other embodiments are contemplated. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278097 | Creating and Visualizing Professionally Crowdsourced Structured Medical Knowledge - A system and a method are disclosed for gathering and visualizing votes on the comparative efficacy, tolerability, and cost of medical treatments, including surgeries, drugs, devices, radiological and other procedures and interventions, using an Internet-based, credentialed physician social network. The system includes a method for intuitive head-to-head visualization of competing treatments, based upon aggregated community physician votes, with respect to their performance on the principal clinical dimensions of efficacy, tolerability, and cost. The system additionally includes a method to reduce intentional and unintentional voting bias. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278098 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING HEALTHCARE ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and method for healthcare advertisements and clinical messaging to healthcare consumers and physicians are disclosed herein. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278099 | MONITORING, CAPTURING, MEASURING AND ANNOTATING PHYSIOLOGICAL WAVEFORM DATA - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing healthcare environments are provided. In embodiments, signals are received from more than one lead corresponding to a measurement associated with a patient. Real-time waveforms or physiologic data is displayed representing each signal. Events are detected for at least one of the waveforms or physiologic data. Temporary queues store the waveforms or physiologic data corresponding to the events, where they may be reviewed, measured, annotated, or saved to the patient's electronic medical record. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278100 | Remote, Adjunct, Credentialed Provider-Directed Healthcare Systems and Methods - Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are systems and methods for extending patient care effectiveness of a licensed primary healthcare provider facility, group, or individual and providing professional answering and triage services, comprising: a live, remote, adjunct healthcare provider, wherein said adjunct provider is credentialed by said licensed primary healthcare provider facility, group, or individual to provide remote adjunct care for one or more patients, wherein said adjunct provider is covered by medical malpractice insurance, wherein said patients are legally under the care of said licensed primary healthcare provider facility, group, or individual; a software module for providing said remote adjunct healthcare provider access to one or more electronic health records for said one or more patients; and a communications link between said remote adjunct healthcare provider and said patient or one or more onsite patient caregivers. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278101 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING TRUSTED USER COMMUNITIES AND MANAGING AUTHENTICATED SECURE COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN SAME - A system and method of creating trusted communities of users and managing communications by and between said trusted users are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system is depicting implementing a medical treatment plan for a set of patients wherein said communications between users, such as physicians and patients, are secure, HIPAA-compliant and sufficiently versatile to enable such communications via known networking infrastructure. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278102 | Real-Time Automated Interpretation of Clinical Narratives - Techniques for enabling real-time automated interpretation of clinical narratives are disclosed. The automated interpretation can be achieved by translating narrative text into a clinical terminology-encoded structural representation such as the Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) example of such a clinical terminology. The translation process enables the generation of both pre-coordinated and post-coordinated SNOMED CT concept expressions. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPLOADING AND SECURING HEALTH CARE RECORDS TO TRUSTED HEALTH-USER COMMUNITIES - Systems and methods of uploading image files of sensitive documents are disclosed to at least one trusted community of users. The trusted community may be an automated care pod used by medical providers to treat a patient. The image files may comprise the individual's patient records. A request for uploading may be made to the care pod and the care pod may generate a unique identifying symbol which is sent back to the sender. The care pod or managing system may receive the image file with the unique identifying symbol embedded or associated with the image file. In another embodiment, an automated extractor/verifier may process the uploaded image data and extract user information. Said extracted user information may then be compared against patient information associated with the care pod. If extracted information and patient information do not match, an error flag may be sent. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278104 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADVANCED PATIENT COMMUNICATION - A method and system for advanced patient communication have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises providing a patient communication device through which a patient communicates a first message from a hospital bed. The first message is received at a central processing server. The first message is processed to identify an urgency level of the message. One or more additional messages are generated based on the first message. The one or more additional messages are transmitted to specific health care provider devices of specific health care providers who are expected to respond to the patient. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278105 | PROTOCOL GUIDED IMAGING PROCEDURE - The proposed method and apparatus simplifies the task of selecting diagnostic findings indicated by a medical image by constraining all the possible selections of diagnostic findings to those appropriate for the specific clinical context represented by an image being acquired or viewed. Further, the proposed method and apparatus makes available the clinical context represented by an image without overt action by the person acquiring the image by utilizing the concept of a predefined exam protocol containing a set of views each describing an image to be acquired, and including with each view the clinical context that is to be associated with each image acquired for that view. In other words, the proposed method and system allows making available for selection only those diagnostic findings that are clinically relevant to any one of the views. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278106 | Personal Information Gathering, Storing, and Transfer System and Method of Use - A personal information gathering, storing, and transfer system having a display, an input device, and a processor in data communication with the display and input device for receiving data from the input device and actuating the display. An internal memory is in data communication with the processor and the input device for storing data received from the input device. The display and input device may be a touch screen. The system includes a USB port in data communication with the processor and internal memory. The system includes a portable memory device configured for data connection to the USB port for receiving data from the internal memory. The processor includes programming for automatically deleting data from the internal memory when transferred to the portable memory. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278107 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING INSURANCE ACCOUNT DOCUMENTS - A Personal Health Application (PHA) management system stores templates that are used to generate customized PHA documents. The PHA management system receives a request for a PHA document, where the request includes information that describes a new insurance policy or modification of a policy that an insurance consumer is requesting, that indicates the state or other area in which the insurance consumer lives, that indicates the reason that the consumer is requesting the new policy or modification, and/or other information. The PHA management system generates a PHA document based on a stored template and the information included in the request, and the generated PHA document may be provided to the insurance consumer. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF INSURANCE QUOTES - A method for improving the accuracy of a quote generated by an insurance business to a consumer for an insurance product is provided. The method determines personal identifying data of the consumer, matches the determined identifying data with one of the personal identifiers listed in an index file. The method identifies a plurality of insurance claims associated with the matched personal identifier, determines which of the identified insurance claims are chargeable based on a claim criteria provided by the insurance business, and returns a claim score to the insurance business indicative of a number of claims determined to be chargeable. The method further identifies a plurality of personal injury insurance claims associated with the matched personal identifier, determines which of the identified personal injury insurance claims are pertinent based on claim criteria provided by the insurance business, and returns an alert to the insurance business identifying pertinent personal injury claims. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278109 | INSURANCE PRODUCT, RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - In the present invention, an insurance product, rating system and method generally relates to a rating and pricing system for quantifying the risk that the annual savings will not fall below specified levels associated with implementing and maintaining economic improvements. The product, system and method can be applied to various industries, including, power generation, petro-chemical, manufacturing and refining facilities. Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and products for providing a computer implemented insurance product. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278110 | INSURANCE PRODUCT, RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - In the present invention, an insurance product, rating system and method generally relates to a rating and pricing system for quantifying the risk that the annual savings will not fall below specified levels associated with implementing and maintaining economic improvements. The product, system and method can be applied to various industries, including, power generation, petro-chemical, manufacturing and refining facilities. Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for determining optimal risk acceptance values associated with implementing an economic improvement plan for a facility. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278111 | INSURANCE PRODUCT, RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - In the present invention, an insurance product, rating system and method generally relates to a rating and pricing system for quantifying the risk that the annual savings will not fall below specified levels associated with implementing and maintaining economic improvements. The product, system and method can be applied to various industries, including, power generation, petro-chemical, manufacturing and refining facilities. Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to a system and method for establishing a rating system to determine the impact on an insured's credit risk. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278112 | TRANSFERRING INSURANCE POLICIES - A server may receive from a trading system information on an insurance policy, in which the information may include privacy related information. The server may compare the privacy related information to at least one predefined characteristic and determine that there is a match between the privacy related information and the characteristic. Based at least in part on there being a match, the server may filter-out the insurance policy such that the information on the insurance policy is not provided to a workstation in use by a participant. Alternatively, the server may determine that there is not a match between the privacy related information and the characteristic and provide the information, minus the privacy related information, to the workstation. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278113 | SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD FOR EVENT RESERVATION - A computer-based reservation system and method is provided, for event reservation such as bottle service at nightclubs. The system is configured to present to a user via digital communications with a client device, a listing of nightclubs in response to a reservation search received from the user. The reservation search can include location and date. The system provides the listing to include nightclubs within the requested location having availability on the requested date and pricing for bottle service. The system enables the user to select a nightclub from the list to secure a reservation. The system further configured to secure a bottle-service reservation for the user at a selected nightclub based upon terms to include date, price, and a bottle minimum, agreed upon by the user and the selected nightclub, in which reservation details are transmitted to the user and the selected nightclub via digital communications. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278114 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY REVERSING BUSINESS FUNCTIONS - A method for determining reversibility of a business function performed by a plurality of development objects in a user's system may include determining reversibility of an accessory container object based on a plurality of environmental factors of the user's system, checking a set of conditions specific to the business function to determine whether the business function is reversible, and displaying the business function as reversible. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278115 | Method and Apparatus for Leveraging Social Media for Pro-Active Customer Notification - Customers are contacted on social media websites and instant messaging programs by monitoring a plurality of network-enabled user-interactive sites, e.g., social media websites, for an active presence of a customer on one of the sites. Upon detection of an active presence, a customer support agent is assigned to the customer associated, and a communication channel of customer's choice is established between the agent and the customer. This communication channel is used to exchange messages between the assigned agent and the associated predefined customer. A single contact center representation is established on each site, and a separate logical representation of each single contact center representation is established on premises equipment associated with the agent. The logical representation on the agent premises equipment is used to establish the communication channel between the customer support agent and the associated predefined customer. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278116 | HIERARCHICAL TRANSACTION FILTERING - Systems and methods of allocating transactions among business objects are described. The systems and methods include storing transaction data characterizing the plurality of transactions, producing a plurality of generated allocation rules, using relationships between nodes of a data structure, and executing a plurality of queries on the stored transaction data, using the plurality of generated allocation rules. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278117 | TASK MANAGEMENT FOR A PLURALITY OF TEAM MEMBERS - Each of a plurality of team members may define a task by providing data concerning a task to a centralized controller, wherein each task may be assigned any other team member of the plurality of team members. The controller may receive task event information from a first team member of the plurality of team members regarding a task, which task is associated within the controller with the first team member and a second team member. The controller subsequently sends updated task information, based on the task event information, to both the first team member and the second team member. Relevant to any given task, the task event information may comprise a task delegation indication, which may further comprise a non-delegation indication such that further delegation of the task in not permitted. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278118 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The object of the present invention is to decrease the effort and cost involved in managing a product development project. Provided is an information processing system comprising a specific task list acquiring section that acquires a specific task list in which at least one of a requirement that is needed for a product being developed and a component included in the product being developed is associated with each of a plurality of specific tasks; a requirement/component dependency relationship information acquiring section that acquires requirement/component dependency relationship information indicating dependency relationships of the requirements and the components indicated by the specific task list; an integrated task dependency relationship calculating section that calculates dependency relationships of the specific tasks based on the requirement/component dependency relationship information; and an integrated task dependency relationship information generating section that generates integrated task dependency relationship information indicating the dependency relationships of the specific tasks. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278119 | Semi-automated reciprocal scheduling - Schedules which include reciprocal events, such as schedules for youth hockey leagues, can be created using a system in which users can invite one another to schedule games based on information selected through an interface and reciprocal dates which are automatically identified by a suitably programmed computer. Information related to games and schedules can be stored in a database which can be accessed and modified by different users depending on their roles and the permissions associated with those roles. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278120 | CROSS-SCHEDULE DEPENDENCIES USING PROXY TASKS - Product Data Management systems, methods, and mediums. A method includes receiving a first schedule. The first schedule includes at least a first task. The method includes creating a proxy task in a second schedule. The proxy task corresponds to and is a substantial copy of the first task. The method can include creation of a dependency between the proxy task in second schedule and another task in the second schedule. The method includes storing the second schedule. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278121 | COMPUTER CONFIGURED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT MODEL - A computer configured method, apparatus, computer readable medium and system are disclosed for allocating one or more resources. In some embodiments, the one or more resources may be associated with one or more properties. A computer may obtain characteristics associated with the properties. The obtained characteristics may include area occupied by the properties, counts of types of properties, and a status of third party use of the properties. In some embodiments, the computer may group properties sharing a common characteristic, and then compute values associated with the characteristic using one or more algorithms. The computer may transform the computed values via one or more respective parameters representative of a unit measure of the resource in order to obtain a number of units of the resource needed for each grouping. The number of units of the resource needed for each grouping may then be examined by the computer to obtain a (total) resource allocation. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278122 | AUTOMATED DERIVATION, DESIGN AND EXECUTION OF INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product creates a physical information environment for a specific industry type. A candidate industry type, which has specific information environment requirements, is selected to describe a customer's operations. A set of information environment components that is specific to the candidate industry type is selected. Inherent constraints, for the set of information environment components, are identified. A processor recursively optimizes the set of information environment components to create a set of optimized information environment components that meet the inherent constraints and key performance indicators (KPIs) of the candidate industry type. A hierarchy of KPIs for the candidate industry type is defined. The processor predicts access patterns to the optimized information environment components based on the hierarchy of KPIs. A physical information environment that comprises the set of optimized information environment components is then constructed and deployed. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278123 | Method And System For Determining The Capacity Required To Complete Work During Planned Start And Finished Times - In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method for determining the capacity required to complete work during planned start and finished times. The first step entails providing a plurality of Resource Group Names, wherein each Resource Group Name (RGN) represents a particular Work Center (WC) having predetermined resources associated therewith. The predetermined resources include equipment, operators, set-up person(s), fixtures and tooling. The method further includes the steps of selecting a particular item that is in a predefined process flow, providing data that represents a planned movement of the selected item along the predefined process flow, identifying all process steps in the predefined process flow through which the selected item must pass, identifying each Reporting Point (RP) in each selected item's predefined process flow, retrieving data that represents the Required Work Content (RWC) of the selected item at each process step along the predefined process flow, determining the Required Work Content (RWC) to completely perform all process steps in the overall process, providing, for each step of the predefined process flow, an amount of Allocated Time Buffer (ATB) required to accommodate variability associated with completing the Required Work Content (RWC), establishing for each process step and Reporting Point (RP), using the designated Resource Group Name (RGN) representing the Work Center (WC), a Daily Work Calendar (DWC) which is used for assigning Required Work Content (RWC) and Allocated Time Buffer (ATB), retrieving a document start date-time and a document finish date-time for each selected item that enters the predefined process flow, utilizing the Resource Group Name (RGN) representing the Work Center (WC) and the corresponding Work Center (WC) Daily Work Calendar (DWC), Required Work Content (RWC), Allocated Time Buffers (ATB) and document start or finish date-time to establish the planned start date-time and planned finish date-time at each process step in each item's open document's, and utilizing the resources in the Resource Group Name (RGN) representing the Work Center (WC) and the corresponding Work Center (WC) Daily Work Calendar (DWC) to map resource loading at each process step within each open document in accordance with the established planned start date-time and planned finish date-time at each process step to identify any local Allocated Time Buffer (ATB) overloads corresponding to any of the Work Centers (WC) and the resources associated therewith to determine additional capacity requirements. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278124 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBTAINING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION FOR INTERRELATED PROCESSES - A method creates and employs a process tier structure to determine changes to a process made up of interrelated processes. All stakeholders of the process are determined, each stakeholder having a set of associated characteristics and a set of associated processes. A process tier is then determined for each stakeholder based upon the set of associated characteristics and the set of associated processes of each stakeholder. A process tier structure is created based upon the determined tiers. The process tier structure provides information regarding interactions between the process stakeholders and the process tiers, as well as information regarding the interrelationships among the set of associated processes of the process stakeholders. The process tier structure may then be used to model the process, evaluate process modification requirements, implement determined modifications efficiently, and produce documentation or analysis of the process. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING PROCESS MANAGEMENT TOOLS - An approach is provided for performing programmatic assessment of process management applications. A representative process of a workflow is selected. The representative process is executed on a source business process management platform and a target business process management platform. A first set of one or more metric values is captured from the source platform in the execution of the representative process. A second set of one or more metric values is captured from the target platform in the execution of the representative process. An assessment score is generated based on the first set of metric values and the second set of metric values. A determination is made whether to migrate from the source platform to the target platform based on the assessment score. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278126 | LOSS DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION SYSTEM, LOSS DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION METHOD AND LOSS DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION-USE PROGRAM - Provided is a loss distribution calculation system, comprising: a frequency distribution/scale distribution input section that inputs information about a frequency distribution and a scale distribution; a scale distribution discretization section that performs either one or both of upside and downside discretizations for the input scale distribution; a sub-composite distribution calculation section that calculates, after performing division of all events, a probability value of a cumulative sum of losses for a portion out of all events in order to calculate either one or both of an upside sub-composite distribution and a downside sub-composite distribution, the upside sub-composite distribution being calculated based on the frequency distribution and the upside-discretized scale distribution, and the downside sub-composite distribution being calculated based on the frequency distribution and the downside-discretized scale distribution; an accuracy calculation section that calculates upper and lower bounds of a loss distribution function based on either one or both of the upside and downside sub-composite distributions, calculates a function, as an approximate value of the loss distribution function, based on either one or both of the upside and downside sub-composite distributions, and calculates an accuracy of the approximate value; and a loss distribution output section that outputs information about the approximate value of the loss distribution function with guaranteed accuracy represented by information about the calculated accuracy. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278127 | GENERATING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON DYNAMIC PRODUCT CONTEXT DATA AND/OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY DATA RELATED TO A PRODUCT - Systems and methods are described for generating online product recommendations. A plurality of data objects representative of a plurality of items for user consumption from an online merchant are stored at a computing device. A method then comprises, registering a device associated with a user with the online merchant; and in response to registering the device: associating the device with at least one other device registered with the online merchant associated with an other user in response to selection of the at least one other device by the device, monitoring a first social activity of the at least one other device, wherein the first social activity includes a first activity related to an interaction of the at least one other device with at least one of the plurality of data objects, and collecting and storing first social activity data related to the first social activity of the at least one other device. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278128 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MARKET DEMAND FOR BUYING AND SELLING PROPERTIES - A dynamic property buying and selling system is described. The system is comprised of networked hardware, software, processes and methods that enable an auction like system to probe the market and inform buyers, sellers and interested third parties of current market demand information including dynamics. The described system may be used in real estate and other markets to complete early stages of a negotiation process as well as enable buyers and sellers to test for market demand information. Third party observers may use the system to investigate and report on market demand information and test economic theories regarding the market of interest. An integrated expert system is useful to buyers, sellers and third party observers in providing answers to queries regarding correlation of auction parameters and optimization of parameters for particular desired outcomes. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278129 | EMBEDDING CALENDAR KNOWLEDGE IN EVENT-DRIVEN INVENTORY FORECASTING - Systems and methods for automatically forecasting the future availability of one or more resources, such as Internet advertising opportunities, are described herein. In accordance with various embodiments, a forecasting model that accounts for event-driven resource availability is trained based both on historical supply data and calendar information specifying events and event duration. The trained forecasting model is then used to forecast the availability of resources at one or more specified future time periods. In accordance with certain embodiments, the forecasting model comprises a Gaussian process model that has an event-driven kernel as a covariance function. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278130 | MOBILE TRAFFIC FORECASTING USING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION - Technologies are generally described for mobile traffic forecasting using public transportation information. In some examples, a method performed under the control of a mobile traffic forecasting system may include receiving payment information of a public transportation, and estimating mobile traffic for one or more base stations on a route of the public transportation based on the payment information of the public transportation. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278131 | Online Survey Spawning, Administration And Management - A method and apparatus for spawning and management of online surveys is provided. An administration and redirector subsystem (ARS) is used manage ongoing surveys for a plurality of sites. Surveys can be added to or removed from individual sites using the ARS. The ARS also tracks statistics for individual surveys. Redirector tags invite users to participate in surveys and track user survey participation through cookies. The system can be used to conduct advertisement effectiveness studies. Tracker tags and corresponding cookies are used to track users who have viewed content containing the tag. Each study is issued a unique content tag, but uses the same redirector tag. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278132 | LOCATION BASED CONSUMER PROFILING - A system and method for profiling a consumer includes an agent with a memory in communication with a processor, the memory including program instructions for execution by the processor to receive a visit record information element comprising information about a location visited by the consumer and a unique consumer identifier, retrieve location information element associated with the location, retrieve a consumer profile element associated with the unique consumer identifier, generate an updated consumer profile information element based at least in part on one or more of the consumer profile information element, the detailed visit record information element, and the location characterization information element, and store the updated consumer profile information element. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278133 | Fuel Offering and Purchase Management System - The present disclosure is directed towards apparatuses, systems and methods to facilitate the pricing, sales and delivery of a commodity fuel to a Customer. In one embodiment, the disclosure teaches a Fuel Offer Generator that facilitates the purchase and management of fuel offerings. The Fuel Offer Generator allows Customers interested in securing fuel to obtain an offer for fuel at lock-in prices for various tenors. Fuel Customers can buy these fuel offers such that they may later exercise the fuel offers so their fuel costs are locked-in at desired levels (e.g., they may be set to strike prices). The Fuel Offer Generator also can establish a Premium Price that will be part of the fuel offer. The Fuel Offer Generator may generate hedges to counteract fuel related risks stemming from fuel offer purchases. Ultimately, a customer that purchases a fuel offering can exercise their fuel offering order at a specified price and redeem any difference between the market price for their purchased fuel and the price specified in their fuel offering order. The Fuel Offer Generator determines which metrics are relevant to pricing the fuel offering and then employs those determined metrics to establish the pricing of fuel offerings. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278134 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - A non-transitory computer readable medium can be programmed to provide an operational-behavioral business intelligence system that includes an idea manager programmed to manage ideas submitted by a user. Each idea can be stored in a knowledgebase and be capable of validation and conversion into an experiment. An experiment manager can be programmed to manage each experiment, including design, execution and analysis thereof. Each experiment can employ a performance indicator to provide a measure of performance based on behavior probe data captured via a behavior probe, the measure of performance being stored as experiment data for each respective experiment. A continuous positive reinforcement (CPR) engine can generate CPR data to provide substantially continuous reinforcement to users based on the data stored in the knowledgebase to drive business processes innovation. | 2012-11-01 |
20120278135 | TEST OPERATION AND REPORTING SYSTEM - A test operation and reporting system is operable to evaluate testing of a system under test (SUT). The test operation and reporting system includes a testing metrics selection engine to identify core metrics and one or more optional metrics to evaluate a testing service level of one or more tests performed on the SUT. A metrics compilation module determines measurements for the core metrics and optional metrics. A trend evaluation module determines whether a trend determined from the metrics meets an associated target, and identifies a metric indicator to explain the trend if the associated target is not met. A dashboard engine generates a plurality of views based on selections. The views are operable to include the trend, an associated target, the core metrics and optional metrics, the metric indicator and other metrics. | 2012-11-01 |