45th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130297283 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A configuration storage unit ( | 2013-11-07 |
20130297284 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING POLITE EXPRESSIONS FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating polite expressions for automatic translation. The apparatus includes a relationship recognition unit, a polite level selection unit, and a translation unit. The relationship recognition unit extracts relationship information from a conversation between first and second language users and personal information of the first and second language users and then recognizes the social relationship between the language users. The polite level selection unit selects a polite level for the conversation between the first and second language users based on the extracted relationship information. The translation unit generates polite expressions corresponding to the selected polite level, and translates the conversation between the first and second language users into a target language based on the generated polite expressions. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297285 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TWO-WAY AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION SERVICE - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a two-way automatic interpretation and translation service. The apparatus includes a first interpretation and translation unit for interpreting and translating a first language into a second language. A second interpretation and translation unit interprets and translates the second language into the first language. A context information management unit receives conversational context and translation history information, and shares and manages the conversational context and translation history information. Each of the first and second interpretation and translation units provides an interpretation service for receiving an input conversation in the first or second language in speech and outputting results of interpretation in speech in the second or first language, and a translation service for receiving an input conversation in the first or second language in text and outputting results of translation in text in the second or first language. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297286 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD ENABLING TRANSLITERATION OF A TEXT INPUT - An improved mobile electronic device enables the inputting of text in one alphabet, Traditional Chinese in the present example, by transliteration of inputs in another alphabet, BoPoMoFo in the present example. Since some of the inputs can be ambiguous, transliteration of an ambiguous input is delayed until a detection of a finalization event, thus avoiding the outputting of unnecessary transliteration results, and thus advantageously avoiding a distraction to the user. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297287 | DISPLAY TWO KEYBOARDS ON ONE TABLET COMPUTER TO ALLOW TWO USERS TO CHAT IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES - A system and related techniques for communicating in different languages between two users on a mobile computing device is provided. The system includes a communication module, a user interface module and a display. The communication module receives a first language communication and requests a first translated communication in a second language that corresponds to the first language. The communication module receives a second language communication and requests a second translated communication in the first language that corresponds to the second language. The user interface module generates a first output corresponding to the first translated communication and generates a second output corresponding to the second translated communication. The display includes a first display region that displays the first language communication and a second display region that displays the first output. The first display region and the second display region are offset relative to each other on the display. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297288 | Mobile Speech-to-Speech Interpretation System - Interpretation from a first language to a second language via one or more communication devices is performed through a communication network (e.g. phone network or the internet) using a server for performing recognition and interpretation tasks, comprising the steps of: receiving an input speech utterance in a first language on a first mobile communication device; conditioning said input speech utterance; first transmitting said conditioned input speech utterance to a server; recognizing said first transmitted speech utterance to generate one or more recognition results; interpreting said recognition results to generate one or more interpretation results in an interlingua; mapping the interlingua to a second language in a first selected format; second transmitting said interpretation results in the first selected format to a second mobile communication device; and presenting said interpretation results in a second selected format on said second communication device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297289 | MULTIPLE INPUT LANGUAGE SELECTION - Multiple language inputs may be provided to various applications programs and/or threads in a computer system. Such inputs may be directed to various software systems on the computer for further processing, wherein the software systems provide language-specific processing. Each application program and/or thread within an application program accessible by the computer may have a different selected input language. More specifically, systems, methods, and computer-readable media for this process may include: (a) determining an input language for a first application program accepting input through a computer; and (b) selecting at least one software system capable of accepting or operating on at least some of the input based, at least in part, on the input language determined for the first application program. In some examples, the input language of various software systems on the computer may be tied to the input language of another software system, such as the soft keyboard. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297290 | AUTOMATIC ACCURACY ESTIMATION FOR AUDIO TRANSCRIPTIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for estimating the accuracy of a transcription of a voice recording. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, each word of a transcription of a voice recording is checked against a customer-specific dictionary and/or a common language dictionary. The number of words not found in either dictionary is determined. An accuracy number for the transcription is calculated from the number of said words not found and the total number of words in the transcription. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297291 | CONFIDENCE LEVEL ASSIGNMENT TO INFORMATION FROM AUDIO TRANSCRIPTIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for automatically assigning a confidence level to information extracted from a transcription of a voice recording. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, an axiom is extracted from a source associated with the text of the transcription. A confidence level of the source is determined. A confidence level is assigned to the axiom based on the confidence level of the source. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297292 | High Bandwidth Parsing of Data Encoding Languages - A mechanism is provided for accelerating data exchange language parsing. An input data stream is loaded into a first in, first out (FIFO) memory. A tokenization bit corresponding to a next byte to be read is extracted from a FIFO. A determination is made as to whether the tokenization bit corresponding to the next byte to be read from the FIFO indicates a control character or a non-control character located in an associated FIFO memory location in the FIFO. Responsive to the tokenization bit indicating the control character, the control character that causes a state change in a state machine is processed. Responsive to the tokenization bit indicating the non-control character, a length associated with the tokenized bit is identified and a set of non-control characters that do not cause a state change in the state machine are processed based on the length associated with the tokenized bit. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297293 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCE - Systems and methods are provided for receiving speech and non-speech communications of natural language questions and/or commands, transcribing the speech and non-speech communications to textual messages, and executing the questions and/or commands. The invention applies context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users presenting questions or commands across multiple domains. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context of the speech and non-speech communications and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297294 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods for Non-Monotonic Recognition of Phrasal Terms - Systems and methods are provided for non-monotonic recognition of phrasal terms. Phrasal terms are identified from a corpus of written materials and ranked based on, for example, a mutual rank ratio. The phrasal terms are sequentially selected and a determination is made as to whether to accept or reject the selected phrasal term based on at least one predetermined criteria. The ranking of the phrasal terms may also rely on linguistic support to reduce duplication of phrasal terms and to distinguish different confidence levels for identified and accepted phrasal terms. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297295 | Script Detection Service - Script detection service techniques are described. In an implementation, a corpora of text is analyzed to determine which strings in the corpora of text are to be included in a targeted dictionary that is usable for language detection services. The targeted dictionary is populated with strings that are individually associated with a human language. The strings include individual text characters associated with values that correspond to a particular subset of values in a table that associates subsets of values with individual human writing systems. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297296 | SOURCE SEPARATION BY INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOURCE DIRECTION INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract source signals from mixtures of source signals by way of independent component analysis. Source direction information is utilized in the separation process, and independent component analysis techniques described herein use multivariate probability density functions to preserve the alignment of frequency bins in the source separation process. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF EMOTION IN HUMAN SPEECH - A system performs local feature extraction. The system includes a processing device that performs a Short Time Fourier Transform to obtain a spectrogram for a discrete-time speech signal sample. The spectrogram is subdivided based on natural divisions of frequency to humans. Time-frequency-energy is then quantized using information obtained from the spectrogram. And, feature vectors are determined based on the quantized time-frequency-energy information. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297298 | SOURCE SEPARATION USING INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH MIXED MULTI-VARIATE PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION - Methods and apparatus for signal processing are disclosed. Source separation can be performed to extract source signals from mixtures of source signals by way of independent component analysis. Source separation described herein involves mixed multivariate probability density functions that are mixtures of component density functions having different parameters corresponding to frequency components of different sources, different time segments, or some combination thereof. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297299 | Sparse Auditory Reproducing Kernel (SPARK) Features for Noise-Robust Speech and Speaker Recognition - The speech feature extraction algorithm is based on a hierarchical combination of auditory similarity and pooling functions. Computationally efficient features referred to as “Sparse Auditory Reproducing Kernel” (SPARK) coefficients are extracted under the hypothesis that the noise-robust information in speech signal is embedded in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) spanned by overcomplete, nonlinear, and time-shifted gammatone basis functions. The feature extraction algorithm first involves computing kernel based similarity between the speech signal and the time-shifted gammatone functions, followed by feature pruning using a simple pooling technique (“MAX” operation). Different hyper-parameters and kernel functions may be used to enhance the performance of a SPARK based speech recognizer. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297300 | Automatic determination of stability and validity of Speech Transmission Index measurements - The Speech Transmission Index (STI) uses the modulation transfer function to characterize speech communication channels with a single index. This index accurately predicts speech intelligibility. In order to measure the STI, a device or software is needed that utilizes an artificial test signal to estimate the modulation transfer function, and to derive the STI from that function. In practice, many STI measurements are found to be invalid and inaccurate, for two reasons: (1) the measurements are carried out in test conditions for which by design the STI is not intended; (2) equipment is used that does not meet specifications and requirements. A procedure is described to automatically verify if conditions for obtaining valid STI results are met. If possible, corrections are applied to compensate for incorrect settings and poorly adjusted measuring equipment. If automatic correction of the problem is not possible, then a warning is generated. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297301 | COUPLING AN ELECTRONIC SKIN TATTOO TO A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method provides auxiliary voice input to a mobile communication device (MCD). The system comprises an electronic skin tattoo capable of being applied to a throat region of a body. The electronic skin tattoo can include an embedded microphone; a transceiver for enabling wireless communication with the MCD; and a power supply configured to receive energizing signals from a personal area network associated with the MCD. A controller is communicatively coupled to the power supply. The controller can be configured to receive a signal from the MCD to initiate reception of an audio stream picked up from the throat region of the body for subsequent audio detection by the MCD under an improved signal-to-noise ratio than without the employment of the electronic skin tattoo. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297302 | Systems And Methods For Voice Enhancement In Audio Conference - System and methods are provided for voice enhancement in audio conferencing among a plurality of participants. An example system includes a signal processor, a pre-processing component, and a voice-enhancement component. The signal processor is configured to generate a first mixed signal based at least in part on a first audio signal associated with a first remote participant and a local audio signal associated with a local participant. The pre-processing component is configured to generate a first input signal and a second input signal based at least in part on the first mixed signal and a second audio signal associated with a second remote participant. In addition, the voice-enhancement component is configured to generate a first output signal to be transmitted to the second remote participant based at least in part on the first input signal and the second input signal. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297303 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF, AND VEHICLE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus of this invention is a speech processing apparatus that acquires pseudo speech from a mixture sound including desired speech and noise. The speech processing apparatus includes a first microphone that inputs a first mixture sound including desired speech and noise and outputs a first mixture signal, a second microphone that is opened to the same sound space as that of said first microphone and disposed at a focus position of an interface that is part of a boundary of the sound space and has one of a quadratic surface shape and a pseudo surface shape approximating a quadratic surface, inputs a second mixture sound including the desired speech reflected by the interface and the noise reflected by the interface at a ratio different from the first mixture sound, and outputs a second mixture signal, and a noise suppression circuit that suppresses an estimated noise signal based on the first mixture signal and the second mixture signal and outputs a pseudo speech signal. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297304 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - Disclosed is an apparatus for speech recognition and automatic translation operated in a PC or a mobile device. The apparatus for speech recognition according to the present invention includes a display unit that displays a screen for selecting a domain as a unit for a speech recognition region previously sorted for speech recognition to a user; a user input unit that receives a selection of a domain from the user; and a communication unit that transmits the user selection information for the domain. According to the present invention, the apparatus for speech recognition using an intuitive and simple user interface is provided to a user to enable the user to easily select/correct a designation domain of a speech recognition system and improve accuracy and performance of speech recognition and automatic translation by the designated system for speech recognition. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297305 | NON-SPATIAL SPEECH DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A non-spatial speech detection system includes a plurality of microphones whose output is supplied to a fixed beamformer. An adaptive beamformer is used for receiving the output of the plurality of microphones and one or more processors are used for processing an output from the fixed beamformer and identifying speech from noise though the use of an algorithm utilizing a covariance matrix. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297306 | Adaptive Equalization System - An adaptive equalization system that adjusts the spectral shape of a speech signal based on an intelligibility measurement of the speech signal may improve the intelligibility of the output speech signal. Such an adaptive equalization system may include a speech intelligibility measurement module, a spectral shape adjustment module, and an adaptive equalization module. The speech intelligibility measurement module is configured to calculate a speech intelligibility measurement of a speech signal. The spectral shape adjustment module is configured to generate a weighted long-term speech curve based on a first predetermined long-term average speech curve, a second predetermined long-term average speech curve, and the speech intelligibility measurement. The adaptive equalization module is configured to adapt equalization coefficients for the speech signal based on the weighted long-term speech curve. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297307 | DICTATION WITH INCREMENTAL RECOGNITION OF SPEECH - A dictation module is described herein which receives and interprets a complete utterance of the user in incremental fashion, that is, one incremental portion at a time. The dictation module also provides rendered text in incremental fashion. The rendered text corresponds to the dictation module's interpretation of each incremental portion. The dictation module also allows the user to modify any part of the rendered text, as it becomes available. In one case, for instance, the dictation module provides a marking menu which includes multiple options by which a user can modify a selected part of the rendered text. The dictation module also uses the rendered text (as modified or unmodified by the user using the marking menu) to adjust one or more models used by the dictation model to interpret the user's utterance. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297308 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING TEXT ASSOCIATED WITH AUDIO FILE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure may provide an electronic device capable of audio recording. The electronic device may include a recording function unit configured to record an external sound to store it as an audio file, a conversion unit configured to convert a voice contained in the sound into a text based on a speech-to-text (STT) conversion, and a controller configured to detect a core keyword from the text, and set the detected core keyword to at least part of a file name for the audio file. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297309 | PERFORMING SPEECH RECOGNITION OVER A NETWORK AND USING SPEECH RECOGNITION RESULTS - Systems, methods and apparatus for generating, distributing, and using speech recognition models. A shared speech processing facility is used to support speech recognition for a wide variety of devices with limited capabilities including business computer systems, personal data assistants, etc., which are coupled to the speech processing facility via a communications channel, e.g., the Internet. Devices with audio capture capability record and transmit to the speech processing facility, via the Internet, digitized speech and receive speech processing services, e.g., speech recognition model generation and/or speech recognition services, in response. The Internet is used to return speech recognition models and/or information identifying recognized words or phrases. The speech processing facility can be used to provide speech recognition capabilities to devices without such capabilities and/or to augment a device's speech processing capability. Voice dialing, telephone control and/or other services are provided by the speech processing facility in response to speech recognition results. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297310 | 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. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297311 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus including: a high-quality-voice determining section configured to determine a voice, which can be determined to have been collected under a good condition, as a good-condition voice included in mixed voices pertaining to a group of voices collected under different conditions; and a voice recognizing section configured to carry out voice recognition processing by making use of a predetermined parameter on the good-condition voice determined by the high-quality-voice determining section, modify the value of the predetermined parameter on the basis of a result of the voice recognition processing carried out on the good-condition voice, and carry out the voice recognition processing by making use of the predetermined parameter having the modified value on a voice included in the mixed voices as a voice other than the good-condition voice. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297312 | Systems and Methods for Off-Board Voice-Automated Web Searching - A system for surfing the web includes a mobile system for processing and transmitting through a wireless link a voice stream spoken by a user of the mobile system and a data center for processing the voice stream received into voice web search information. The continuous voice stream includes a web search request. The data center performs automated voice recognition processing on the voice web search information to recognize components of the web search request, confirms the recognized components of the web search request through interactive speech exchanges with the user through the wireless link and the mobile system, selectively allows human data center operator intervention to assist in identifying the selected recognized web search components having a recognition confidence below a selected threshold value, and downloads web search results pertaining to the web search request for transmission to the mobile system derived from the confirmed recognized web search components. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297313 | ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an audio signal that corresponds to an utterance recorded by a mobile device, determining a geographic location associated with the mobile device, adapting one or more acoustic models for the geographic location, and performing speech recognition on the audio signal using the one or more acoustic models model that are adapted for the geographic location. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297314 | RESCORING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are a distributed environment rescoring method and apparatus. A distributed environment rescoring method in accordance with the present invention includes generating a word lattice by performing voice recognition on received voice, converting the word lattice into a word confusion network formed from the temporal connection of confusion sets clustered based on temporal redundancy and phoneme similarities, generating a list of subword confusion networks based on the entropy values of the respective confusion sets included in the word confusion network, and generating a modified word confusion network by modifying a list of the subword confusion networks through distributed environment rescoring. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297315 | Enhanced Accuracy for Speech Recognition Grammars - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for recognizing speech. A method embodiment comprises comparing received speech with a precompiled grammar based on a database and if the received speech matches data in the precompiled grammar then returning a result based on the matched data. If the received speech does not match data in the precompiled grammar, then dynamically compiling a new grammar based only on new data added to the database after the compiling of the precompiled grammar The database may comprise a directory of names. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297316 | VOICE ENTRY OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION - A method, system, and computer program product for voice entry of information are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A conversion rule is applied to a voice input. An entry field input is generated, wherein the conversion rule allows the voice input to be distinct from the entry field input, and wherein the voice input obfuscates the entry field input. The entry field input is provided to an application, wherein the entry field is usable to populate a data entry field in the application. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297317 | METHOD FOR OFFERING SUGGESTION DURING CONVERSATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for offering suggestion during conversation, an electronic device using the same, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided. The method includes listening to a conversation on a first electronic device and a second electronic device, and determining whether the conversation satisfies a recommendation criterion. The method also includes determining whether at least one suggestion information exists in a database if the conversation satisfies the recommendation criterion. The method further includes displaying at least one suggestion option related to the at least one suggestion information on the first electronic device if the at least one suggestion information exists in the database. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297318 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method of enabling speech commands in an application includes identifying, by a computer processor, a user interaction element within a resource of the application; extracting, by the computer processor, text associated with the identified user interaction element; generating, by the computer processor, a voice command corresponding to the extracted text; and adding the generated voice command to a grammar associated with the application. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297319 | MOBILE DEVICE HAVING AT LEAST ONE MICROPHONE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile device having at least one microphone sensor and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The method includes receiving at least two audio signals through the at least one microphone sensor within a predetermined time period, recognizing input directions and voice command from the at least two audio signals sequentially, determining whether the recognized input directions and voice command match to preset input directions and preset voice command mapped to the preset directions, sequentially for the at least two received audio signals, and executing a preset control command, if the recognized input directions and voice command match to the preset input directions and voice command. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297320 | VOICE-CONTROLLED THREE-DIMENSIONAL FABRICATION SYSTEM - An additive three-dimensional fabrication system includes voice control for user interaction. This voice-controlled interface can enable a variety of voice-controlled functions and operations, while supporting interactions specific to consumer-oriented fabrication processes. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297321 | LANDMARK-BASED LOCATION BELIEF TRACKING FOR VOICE-CONTROLLED NAVIGATION SYSTEM - An utterance is received from a user specifying a location attribute and a landmark. A set of candidate locations is identified based on the specified location attribute, and a confidence score can be determined for each candidate location. A set of landmarks is identified based on the specified landmark, and confidence scores can be determined for the landmarks. An associated kernel model is generated for each landmark. Each kernel model is centered at the location of the associated landmark on a map, and the amplitude of the kernel model can be based on landmark attributes, landmark confidence scores, characteristics of the user, and the like. The candidate locations are ranked based on the amplitudes of overlapping kernel models at the candidate locations, and can also be ranked based on confidence scores associated with the candidate locations. A candidate location is selected and presented to the user based on the candidate location ranking | 2013-11-07 |
20130297322 | 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. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CLINICAL VIEWS OR RECOMMENDATIONS - A system configured to be accessed by a clinical provider and an external agency over a network. The system can include an input/output unit to receive an input external from the system and communicate an output. The system can include a database maintained within the system for storing information provided by or associated with the clinical provider and the external agency. The system can include a processing unit configured to assess a level of relevance of the clinical provider for an industry and define a numerical value defining potential of the clinical provider as an expert. The processing unit can be configured to allow access or deny from access as the clinical provider depending on at least one of the factors comprising the level of relevance to the industry and expertise level in a relevant field of the industry obtained based on the level of relevance. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297324 | VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS COMMUNITY FOR CONDUCTING VIRTUAL CONSULTATIONS WITH SUGGESTED PROFESSIONALS - Systems and methods for providing a virtual professionals community for conducting virtual consultations with suggested professionals includes receiving, in a server, data associated with a plurality of professionals, including a specialty descriptive of one or more of the plurality of professionals. The server can receive a peer performance rating for one of the plurality of professionals generated by a second of the plurality of professionals. A client can submit, to the server, a search request that includes user-defined search criteria. The server can then search the received data based on the search criteria to select relevant professionals associated with the client's search request. The server can rank the selected relevant professionals based on peer performance ratings and the relevancy of the relevant professional to the search criteria. After ranking the selected professionals, the server can transmit a report of the relevant professionals ordered in the ranking determined by the server. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297325 | PHARMACEUTICAL WILL CALL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A wireless computerized will call system is provided for filling prescriptions and then locating specific prescriptions that have been filled when the customer arrives to pick up the prescription. The system includes a computer workstation or network, a wireless transmitter, and hanger bags for temporarily storing prescriptions awaiting customer pick up. The hanger bags are equipped with wireless receivers and transducers. When a pharmacy worker commands the computer system to locate a specific prescription, the specific hanger bag containing that prescription receives a wireless signal from the computer system and activates the transducer on the hanger bag to alert the pharmacy worker to the location of the prescription. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297326 | Set of Novel Algorithms and Processes for Mortgage and Investment Innovations - The invention set proposes net gains formulas for an alternative to mortgage defaults (i.e., mortgage to rent programs) to prevent foreclosures, attempting to save global economy from another crisis. The set also provides novel formulas to calculate the default probability for mortgage of a home located by a mobile GPS. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297327 | HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM - A health monitoring system includes a plurality of remote user sites, each remote user site comprising at least one health monitoring device for collection of user health monitoring data, an interactive video device, and a user interface apparatus; at least one remote computing facility configured for signal communication with, and to receive health monitoring data-related signals from, the plurality of remote user sites; and at least one computer, configured for signal communication with the remote computing facility, wherein the interactive video device is interactively coupled with the remote computing facility. Associated methods are also described. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297328 | INTERFACE FEED ANALYZER FOR CODE MAPPING - Certain examples provide systems, methods, and apparatus to provide clinical terminology services. Certain examples provide systems, methods, and apparatus to analyze and map a new interface message feed. An example clinical interface feed analysis system includes an interface analyzer to: receive a clinical message feed including content; automatically compare the content from the clinical message feed to a reference to match and map the content to at least one of reference clinical data and coded terminology included in the reference without user input; and provide a proposed interface output for review. The example system includes a tester to facilitate testing of the proposed interface output in conjunction with a clinical system to release the proposed interface output as an interface for incoming messages. The example system is to update the reference based on the content from the clinical message feed and the interface mapping. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297329 | Method for Brokering Purchases of Procedural Services - A method for brokering purchases of procedural services between a buyer and at least one professional service provider is a software-based system that negotiates transactions between potential clients and professional service providers by receiving, verifying, and negotiating appointment availabilities and appointment offers while providing privacy to both parties until a transaction is conducted. The system comprises the steps of receiving and indexing appointment openings from providers, receiving and indexing appointment offers from buyers, matching appointment opening with appointment offers, anonymizing appointment offers, and negotiating the exchange of personal information between both parties when a transaction is conducted, as well as provide ancillary product suggestions. The system provides functionality to match a submitted appointment offer anonymously with at least one professional service provider. Additionally, the system provides automated features that improve matching of the appointment opening and the appointment offer by user submitted parameters of system derived value optimums. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297330 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Electroinic Patient Care - An electronic patient monitoring system includes first and second modules. The first module is configured to receive and store information pertaining to a patient, said information including data related to a first parameter of the patient measured by a device connected to the patient, and data related to a second parameter of the patient received from a first database containing information about the patient. The second module is configured to receive a medication order from a user via a user interface associated with the second module, said second module being further configured to transmit said treatment order to the first module. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297331 | Medical Imaging Guideline Compliance System - A system supports medical imaging compliance with guideline and reimbursement requirements using at least one repository and a compliance processor. The at least one repository associates information including, specific reimbursement requirements of a patient insurance company with an imaging protocol compliant with predetermined guidelines for imaging a particular anatomical feature and with a specific type of imaging device and with multiple different steps of the imaging protocol. The compliance processor uses the information in, determining whether a particular imaging protocol for imaging a particular anatomical feature of a particular patient on a particular type of imaging device is compliant with the guidelines and the reimbursement requirements and identifying at least one of, (a) a missing step and (b) an incorrect step, in the particular imaging protocol. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297332 | HEALTH CARE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MESSAGING AND MINING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A health care practice management system is used to store, update and access data regarding patients of practitioners such as doctors and staff. The health care practice management system provides access to collections of data for research by data miners based on such aspects as type of patient condition, patient class, or type of patient treatment. The health care practice management system also provides a vehicle to message targeted groups of individuals, namely, practitioners, patients, and miners of the practice data. The health care practice management system can be distributed to users through a reduced cost arrangement that is support through contributions from third parties by sponsoring messages to be displayed through the system to users. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297333 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING - Methods, systems, and computer program products for the generation and processing of electronic prescriptions. An application server receives user input data that identifies a particular facility and a particular patient. Based at least in part on the particular facility and the particular patient, the application server may generate application data for electronic prescribing for the particular patient. The application server receives prescription for the particular patient and generates an electronic prescription for the particular patient based at least in part on the received prescription data. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297334 | Device and Method for Automatic Data Acquisition and/or Detection - Methods and devices for providing diabetes management including automatic time acquisition protocol is provided. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297335 | Coupling Plant Air Purification with Wellness, Prevention and Insurance Programs - A method by which an organization with plurality of employees and/or insureds and/or members takes steps intended to reduce its costs for providing healthcare, by establishing a wellness and prevention program which comprises at least one of the following: paying for costs of installing plant air purifiers in a workplace of said employees and/or insureds and/or members; paying for costs of installing plant air purifiers in places of residence of said employees and/or insureds; wherein: said plant air purifiers include a mechanism for forcing air to pass through a filter bed thereof in which said plants are rooted. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297336 | Healthcare Data Analysis - In accordance with the teachings provided herein, a system can capture data on ventilator length of stay (LOS) into a ventilator LOS data repository and analyze the data using various methods to determine ventilator Length of Stay (LOS) benchmarks. Advantageously, hospitals can analyze their own ventilator use in comparison with benchmarks from a range of scopes. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297337 | INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING INFORMED CONSENT TO GENETIC TESTS - This invention provides an instrument for obtaining consent for a genetic test that comprises three or more integrated elements including an information element for conveying information to an individual concerning a genetic test, and instruction element for use by a practitioner in instructing individuals on the genetic test and use of the instrument, a collection element for collecting an individual's medical and family history, a assessment element for assessing the individual's retention and understanding of information concerning a genetic test, a certification element for certifying the individual's consent to said tests, as well as housekeeping elements useful for recording a medical record, labeling a sample, and billing. Also provided is a method for obtaining informed consent for a genetic test using an integrated instrument. The instruments and methods disclosed have utility in obtaining informed consent for genetic tests. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297338 | Method for Evaluating the Health of a Website - The invention is a health indicator that is used to evaluate a website. The health indicator is used to evaluate performance and compare the website to predicted performance, similar websites, and websites of entities in adjacent industries. This health indicator will allow for a single view/metric, signified by a unique word, color, number, symbol or an identifiable marker, of the performance and of the Internet site as it relates to Search Engine Optimization, e-Commerce, Bounce Rates, Traffic Data, Traffic Flow, Conversion Rates, Page Views, Social and Mobile metrics, Shopping Cart Information, and any additional data the analysis system has access to. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297339 | METHOD FOR INCREASING UTILIZATION OF GENETIC TESTING - This invention describes a method and site for providing genetic testing using the Internet which enables individuals to access genetic testing as well as methods that ensure privacy in the selection of genetic tests, payment, performance of tests, delivery of results, interpretation of results, and genetic counseling. These methods will increase the utilization of genetic testing by individuals. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297340 | LEARNING AND OPTIMIZING CARE PROTOCOLS | 2013-11-07 |
20130297341 | AGGREGATION OF DATA FROM THIRD PARTY ELECTRONIC MEDICAL OR HEALTH RECORDS SYSTEMS INTO A PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD ACCOUNT - A method for managing health care records to consolidate health care records of an individual within a primary personal health record portal is provided. The method includes acquiring user id and password information from a user for a secondary personal health record portal containing health records of the user, automatically accessing the secondary personal health record portal by a computing device associated with the primary health record portal by using the user id and password information for the secondary personal health record portal, following a script for the secondary personal health record portal to access the health records of the user on the secondary personal health record portal, and transferring the health records of the user from the secondary personal health record portal to the primary personal health record portal. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297342 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A PATIENT SUPPORT AND INFORMATION NETWORK - System in support of managing patient support for patients suffering from various ailments includes a computer, a processor, a memory and a display. A user interface receives patient support information and enables navigation. Modules execute to configure the processor in certain ways, including a patient profile module which defines a custom patient profile which includes personal factors that relate to at least one ailment, a patient similarity module which processes and organizes the patient profiles within ailment classes by weighing the personal factors and calculating a degree of a similarity between the patient profile and other patient profiles within the same ailment class. A first content module provides an output to users in which content is displayed in order of a similarity between the patient profile and the other patient profiles in the same ailment class. Further modules can be provided to track content-viewing tendencies and assess users' ailment concerns. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297343 | MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - In a monitor device, an input unit inputs patient identification information, an information acquiring unit acquires state information on a state of a patient, and a transmission unit transmits the patient identification information and the state information to a management apparatus. In the management apparatus, biological information acquiring unit acquires the patient identification information, the state information, and identification information on the monitor device. A determination unit determines, when the acquired patient identification information and that stored in a storage device match each other, whether the acquired device identification information and the device identification information mapped to the location information stored in the storage device are the same as each other. When they are the same as each other, a storage management unit stores the acquired state information by associating it with the patient identification information stored in the storage device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297344 | DOWNLOADABLE DATASETS FOR A PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM - In general, this disclosure describes techniques for remotely monitoring the health of an ambulatory patient. As described herein, an ambulatory patient may interact with a monitoring device that is located at the patient's home. The monitoring device may ask the patient to provide responses to health-related questions or requests for physiological characteristics and may upload the responses. A health care professional may then use the responses to evaluate the health of the patient. A set of firmware instructions stored on the monitoring device may cause the monitoring device to perform these functions. The monitoring device may download a prompt that is associated with at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions. The prompt may cause the patient monitoring device to execute the at least one instruction in the set of firmware instructions to gather information relating to a patient. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297345 | Electronic Medical Record Hosting System and Method - A method is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: arranging an electronic medical record hosting system including a provider end and one or more of a subscriber end and an authorized person end; providing medical information from one or more of the subscriber end and the authorized person end to the provider end; electronically storing the provided medical information at the provider end; and utilizing a computer workstation at any of the provider end, the subscriber end and the authorized person end for permitting any of the provider end, the subscriber end and the authorized person end to securely electronically view and/or securely electronically modify the medical information that is electronically stored at the provider end. A medical record system is also disclosed. A computer program product is also disclosed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297346 | HEALTHCARE PRIVACY VIOLATION DETECTION AND INVESTIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for detecting privacy violations of patient personal healthcare information (PHI) can include receiving audit logs from all systems within a healthcare facility. These audit logs are generated any time PHI is accessed. The Healthcare Privacy Violation Detection System (HPV-DS) compares these generate audit logs to prior access history of the employee or authorized user that generated the audit log. If any field in the generated audit log is different from the authorized user's prior access history, the risk of a privacy violation is assessed and a risk score is assigned. For audit logs that differ from past access history enough, an alert turned on and the audit log is flagged for administrators to review. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297347 | PHYSICIAN AND CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION SPECIALIST WORKFLOW INTEGRATION - A medical documentation system and a CDI system may be linked together, or integrated, so there is a tie between the two systems that allows for a much more efficient and effective CDI process. In one disclosed embodiment, a medical documentation system transmits to a CDI system a structured data set including at least some information relating to one or more medical facts the medical documentation system automatically extracted from text documenting a patient encounter. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297348 | PHYSICIAN AND CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION SPECIALIST WORKFLOW INTEGRATION - A medical documentation system and a CDI system may be linked together, or integrated, so there is a tie between the two systems that allows for a much more efficient and effective CDI process. In one disclosed embodiment, a CDI system receives from a medical documentation system a structured data set including at least some information relating to one or more medical facts the medical documentation system automatically extracted from text documenting a patient encounter. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297349 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLINICAL STRATEGY FOR THERAPEUTIC PHARMACIES - A system and method of distributing pharmaceutical prescriptions within a network of pharmacies based on the review of prescription claim data and patient medical state to enable stratification of patients, wherein each pharmacy within the network has been established to handle one or more particular patient medical states. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297350 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL CAREGIVER AND EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT PATIENT CARE - A medical device and caretaking management system ( | 2013-11-07 |
20130297351 | VIRTUAL PROFESSIONALS COMMUNITY FOR CONDUCTING VIRTUAL CONSULTATIONS WITH SUGGESTED PROFESSIONALS - Systems and methods for providing a virtual professionals community for conducting virtual consultations with suggested professionals includes receiving, at an electronic device, a request for data associated with a professional. A list of professionals can be transmitted to a client in response to the request. The client can select one of the professionals from the list of professionals. At a scheduled time for a virtual consultation, an appointment interface can be established between the client and professional. Prior to the virtual consultation, including immediately before the virtual consultation, a notification can be transmitted to the professional. The notification can include access to the appointment interface, and a selectable option corresponding to a professional insurance coverage for the virtual appointment. The professional insurance coverage can be based at least in part on the request and can have a coverage period corresponding to a duration of the virtual consultation. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297352 | MOBILE APPLICATION FOR AUTOMOBILE SERVICES - An application for mobile devices presents a number of user interface screens that include information received from a server computer. The user interface screens include icons or controls that allow a user to interact with a sales or service department of a selected dealer, schedule service appointments, edit, store and recall warranty and insurance information. In addition, a user interface screen allows the user to capture information regarding an accident and to forward the information to a user's insurance carrier. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297353 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FILING INSURANCE CLAIMS USING MOBILE IMAGING - An application on a mobile device provides for the initiation and submission of an insurance claim by capturing information and images of documents using an image capture capability, then processing the images to extract content which is transmitted to an insurance company for processing of the claim. Documents such as an automobile insurance card (AIC), driver's license, vehicle identification number (VIN), license plate, police report, damage estimate and repair invoice may all be captured and processed by image processing techniques on the mobile device or an image processing unit in order to extract relevant content. Other features and capabilities of the mobile device—such as video and image capture, location-based services, accelerometers and tracking—may automatically populate relevant fields of a claim report and permit the user to upload photographic and video evidence of an accident and related damage. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297354 | GUI FOR RISK PROFILES - A memory device stores machine-readable instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to graphically depict on a display device a first category of risk analysis data related to a plurality of insurance claims. The processor also causes the display to graphically depict a relationship between a first analysis result and a first benchmark value corresponding to the first analysis result, and graphically depict one or more user controls for selecting a second category of risk analysis data. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION FOR A GERIATRIC POPULATION - A method of establishing a referral network for the enrollment of individuals in a geriatric healthcare insurance plan comprising identifying an age-eligible population; developing and implementing recruiting strategies to establish a relationship with the age-eligible population; and generating potential members from the age-eligible population for enrollment in a geriatric healthcare insurance plan as senior class members; and engaging senior class members to become ambassadors that represent the geriatric healthcare insurance plan to other potential members. Retention strategies such as a points program and a referral resource network are provided to retain senior class members. The referral resource network is a network of senior class members that are available to offer services to other senior class members, including valuable special skills or knowledge or necessary services. The referral resource network may be accessible to senior class members through a global electronic network, such as the Internet. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297356 | System and Method for Processing Requests for Insurance Proposals - A computer system for receiving and evaluating requests for quotes for insurance services includes a processor; and a memory storage device in communication with the processor. The processor is adapted to: receive via a communications interface data including a request for a quote to provide insurance services with respect to a first risk; verify and augment the received data with respect to one or more sources of data; determine based on the verified and augmented received data whether a quote will be provided with respect to the first risk; and provide an output signal including the received data and at least a portion of the augmented data to a third party server. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297357 | PRODUCT RESERVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - This invention discloses a product reservation system and a method thereof. The system comprises a server end and a user end. The system server has a database and a product reservation platform. The database stores a plurality of product data comprising a payment date thereof. The user end is connected to the system server to sign in to the product reservation platform to have access to the plurality of product data. The user end sends a reservation message when at least one product data is selected, and the reservation message includes a user data and the payment date corresponding to at least one product data. Wherein the server end sends a payment notification to the user end which correspond the user data before the payment date or at the payment date, so that the user can confirm the reservation message or cancel the reservation message. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297358 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATED TICKET RESERVATION, AND TERMINAL AND SERVER THEREFOR - An integrated ticket reservation method allows a customer to easily inquire about the entire reservation status of ticket resellers and reserve his/her desired tickets when there are a lot of ticket resellers for one kind of ticket, and a terminal and a server therefor implement the method. The terminal requests servers to provide reservation status information including seat status information, receives the requested reservation status information from the servers, indicates seat status information included in the reservation status information from each of the servers into a full seating chart for the reservation target, and displays the full seating chart on a screen. Upon receiving a request for reservation status information for a reservation target from the terminal, the server searches a reservation database for reservation status information including seat status information indicating remaining seats for the reservation target, and transmits the searched reservation status information to the terminal. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297359 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING TRAVEL ON A CHARTER TRANSPORT - A method is disclosed for scheduling travel on a charter transport. The method can include obtaining from a traveler a passenger accommodation request identifying an origin-destination-pair. The method can also include automatically identifying one or more charter transports having an available passenger accommodation. Moreover, the method can include notifying the traveler of the available passenger accommodation. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297360 | FLIGHT-PRICE MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A flight-ticket price may be monitored by obtaining an itinerary record associated with a previously-booked flight itinerary, identifying a group of flight segments that corresponds to a ticket, “fingerprinting” the ticket, and determining a schedule to periodically monitor prices associated with the ticket. During at least one price-monitoring period, an up-to-date version of the itinerary record is obtained and “fingerprinted”. The “fingerprints” are used to verify that the flight ticket has not changed significantly, current pricing data is obtained, and a cost saving is determined to be currently obtainable, considering possible change penalties, by re-ticketing or re-booking the group of flight segments. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297361 | Enterprise Resource Planning System Entity Event Monitoring - A company is associated, in an enterprise resource planning system, with a plurality of business entities that each have at least one structured record used by the enterprise resource planning system to characterize the business entity. Thereafter, documents are obtained from a plurality of information sources that characterize events associated with each business entity. It is then determined, using pre-defined business rules, which of the events are pertinent to the company so that enhancement records can be generated for the events determined to be pertinent to the company. These enhancement records characterize the corresponding event and are linked to the structured record for the corresponding business entity. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297362 | SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, SERVICE LEVEL OBJECTIVE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention enables SLOs and their values to be determined in a system established for the purpose of providing services to users by accepting requirement values from a user with respect to desired SLOs, and presenting, as candidates which can be selected by a user, SLO groups satisfying those requirement values and SLO groups satisfying those requirement values as nearly as possible, and prompting the user to select a candidate. With this service level objective management system, an administrator inputs SLO names, SLO group names, the SLO names and target values for SLOs belonging to the SLO groups, a hierarchical relationships of the SLO groups, and the like. In addition, user-specified SLO names and requirement values with respect to those SLOs are received from user terminals. A combination specification means | 2013-11-07 |
20130297363 | ALIGNMENT OF OPERATIONAL READINESS ACTIVITIES - An operational readiness alignment system is presented. A planning engine leverages readiness activities previous projects to determine which readiness activities are relevant to a current project. The planning engine can further correlate readiness activities with available team members to derive a responsibility matrix representing a recommendation on which team members should be assigned to which readiness activity roles or responsibilities. One can use the contemplated system to derive one or more readiness measures. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297364 | Incident Communication System - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium are presented, for providing incident notifications. The systems and processes disclosed here automatically generate and send notifications relating to an incident in accordance with an enterprise's business rules and provide real time reporting of all communications relating to the incident. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297365 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATED SCHEDULING - A schedule-coordination system and method that analyzes schedules of a plurality of users and detects schedule overlaps between the users. A first user can be proactively alerted to a schedule overlap with a second user, depending upon registration records of the first and second users. The system and method can also optimize the coordination of a user's schedule by facilitating changes to the schedule. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297366 | MANAGING MULTIPLE AND/OR REPEATED OUT OF OFFICE NOTIFICATION PERIODS - An out of office auto-response system that generates a calendaring user interface through which multiple out of office periods can be managed. The calendaring user interface enables a user to define, simultaneously view, and/or modify, multiple out of office periods during which auto-response messages will be generated. The out of office periods of the disclosed system are manageable as a specific type of calendar entries, and/or as a settable attribute of various types of calendar entries (e.g. vacation type calendar entries, meeting type calendar entries, etc.). The system generates user interface objects that allow a user to define an out of office period as repeated. The repeated office action may be defined as repeated a user-specified number of times, and over a user-specified interval, e.g. daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297367 | MANUFACTURING OPTIMIZER BASED ON PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION TARGETS - An optimizer is used to help manage a process that has multiple consumption inputs with differing costs, multiple production outputs with differing sale prices and intermediates. The process may have storage capabilities for some consumption inputs, production outputs and intermediates. Further, there may be multiple production and consumption targets for the total amount of consumption inputs/production outputs, consumed/produced over a fixed period of time. The optimizer finds the most economical solution while staying in a region from which the contract target is reachable for any combination of uncertain fixed trajectories from pre-selected intervals. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297368 | UPDATING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS THROUGH SALES PLAYBOOK ACTIVITIES - As plays, stages and other playbook elements are processed or completed in the sales playbook, fields of the customer relationship management system are updated by the playbook system according to predefined update rules. Thus, updating of the customer relationship management system is no longer done separately and manually from activities driven by the sales playbook, and the consistency of data in the two systems is improved. In turn, because the sales playbook is driven by data in the customer relationship management system, activity in the sales playbook can dynamically drive further actions in the sales playbook. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297369 | Methodology and Preferred Software that, together, Reduce the Effort required to Write and Maintain Operating Procedures for Manufacturing Plants and Oil and Gas Facilities - A method for generating and maintaining procedures for plant operation the method comprising:
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20130297370 | SIMULATION-BASED RISK ANALYSIS FOR FINITE CAPACITY SCHEDULING - Scheduling software that provides both a deterministic schedule, such as shown in a Gantt chart or a work-to list (the role of traditional FCS software), along with additional information that can be used to judge the risk of the schedule when taking into account both the variations in task times, as well as the unplanned events. One embodiment of the present invention is a simulation model of a facility that incorporates the variations in task times and randomly generated events to provide stochastic estimates of risk measures. Another embodiment of the present invention may be the same model that is used to generate the deterministic schedule, however when generating the schedule the random variations and events are turned off, thereby generating a deterministic schedule. The same model can then be reused with the variations and random events turned on to generate risk measures for the associated deterministic schedule. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTEGRATED WORKFLOW PROCESS, SOCIAL, CONTACT AND WEB MARKETING SOLUTION - This invention relates to data processing for financial, business practice, management or cost/price determination applications where there is a computerized arrangement for the management of interaction between individuals or entities that are connected by social networking and specifically to a system and method for an integrated workflow process, social, contact and web management solution. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRATEGIC WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT AND CONTENT ENGINEERING - The invention provides a system that automates workforce management tasks through the integrated use of structured content accessible from a database, a set of business logic rules engines as well as input from users via user interfaces. The invention also provides a methodology for creating engineered content that is accessible to a strategic workforce management system which manages human resources tasks. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297373 | DETECTING PERSONNEL EVENT LIKELIHOOD IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A computer implemented method for calculating the probability of an employee leaving an organization is provided. Closely associated groups of employees within the organization are identified on based on their date of joining the organization. The email traffic among different members of the closely associated group is monitored over a predefined time period. The occurrence of an event in the closely associated group is used to compute a risk parameter for the remaining employees of the closely associated group. The risk parameter is used in conjunction with a first parameter and a second parameter to calculate the probability of an employee leaving the organization. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297374 | Targeted Equipment Monitoring System and Method for Optimizing Equipment Reliability - An operating strategy for effectively operating a system is provided in a computer-implemented method of quantifying operation of the system based on failure characteristics modeled in a computer having data storage coupled to a processor. One computer-implemented method comprises identifying precursors of damage associated with damage mechanisms and storing the identified precursors in the data storage of the computer. An inherent damage impact from the precursors is characterized for determining operational consequences. Instruments are provided for measuring physical characteristics of the identified precursors and the physical characteristics of the identified precursors are communicated to the processor by the instruments for monitoring the damage mechanisms. The damage mechanisms are diagnosed for determining the inherent damage impact and evaluated by the computer for managing operation of the system. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297375 | Software Service To Facilitate Organizational Testing Of Employees To Determine Their Potential Susceptibility To Phishing Scams - A software system and service for facilitating organizational testing of employees in order to determine their potential susceptibility to phishing scams is disclosed to evaluate their susceptibility to e-mail and Internet cybercrimes such as phishing. The e-mail addresses of a client organization's employees are provided to the system, a phishing e-mail is created and customized, and a phishing e-mail campaign in which the phishing e-mail message is sent and the responses to the phishing e-mail is monitored, and the results of the e-mail campaign are provided for evaluation. The phishing e-mail may optionally contain attachments and various types of probes and “call home” mechanisms. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297376 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK DETECTION REPORTING AND INFRASTRUCTURE - A method, a system, and a device for monitoring risks associated with at least one business process, including: evaluating at least one of a plurality of document instances, wherein each of the document instances includes, in association therewith, a plurality of document values, against a plurality of risk categories; implementing the plurality of risk categories pursuant to at least one acceptable risk policy approved for the at least one business process; and qualifying at least one of the at least one of the plurality of documents pursuant to an approval rating of the at least one document in at least one risk category. The system, method, and device efficiently monitor risk, and allow for flexibility in modifying or updating risk policy. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297377 | INTEGRATED PRODUCTION LOSS MANAGMENT - Current monitoring systems often provide the operating condition of a specific component and do not consider the impact of a specific failure upon an entire system or a business. Nor do the current systems provide an avenue for the business to predict the loss, as well as its impact, and make an educated decision of mitigating the loss based upon economic, environmental, and health and safety considerations. Methods and systems are provided for predicting loss events, impacts of loss events, and providing potential corrective measures to reduce or eliminate the occurrence or impact of the loss events. One aspect relates to the use of system-wide information to predict variables that are directly linked to business impact, such as production loss. Extraneous and transactional data are also utilized according to other aspects of the invention. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297378 | Real Estate Heat Map - Some embodiments provide a system for generating price maps. The system includes a data module for retrieving (1) data related to locations of real estate properties and (2) data related to prices of the real estate properties. The system also includes a contour generator for generating a contour map that includes several contours based on the data related to the locations of the real estate properties and the data related to the prices of the real estate properties. Each contour represents a set of real estate properties having prices within a defined range of values. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297379 | PRIVACY PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for asserting control over and protecting the privacy of individuals' personal and transactional information, to prevent unauthorized use thereof, and permit limited use thereof, with compensation, to the extent permitted the individual. Privacy notices are given in printed and electronic form to other parties involved in the individuals' transactions. The individuals' own data are collected and maintained in a privacy trust database. On a voluntary basis, abstracted, anonymous profile information can be made available to advertisers, in exchange for compensation to the individuals. One use is in a content broadcasting system, where receipt of profile based viewer-specific commercial messages provide financial compensation for the cost of user-selected content received by the individual. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297380 | INVENTORY ADJUSTMENT BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK DATA - Social network data may be accessed by an inventory adjustment machine, and such social network data may be accessed from one or more social network servers. The social network data may be accessed in the form of user submissions published by one or more social network services. The inventory adjustment machine may identify a topical trend from accessed user submissions. The inventory adjustment machine may determine that a product available for sale corresponds to the topical trend identified from the user submissions. After determining that the product corresponds the topical trend, the inventory adjustment machine may adjust a value that represents a quantity of the product within an inventory that includes the product. This adjustment of the value may be based on the topical trend identified from the user submissions accessed from the one or more social network servers. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297381 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A LOW-RESOURCE SUPPLY CHAIN - A method and system for managing a low-resource supply chain. The method includes receiving data over unreliable mobile networks from a retailer, identifying a pattern of goods consumption based on at least one of the data and multiple historical transactions associated with the retailer, calculating an expected demand of goods, providing personalized recommendations, to the retailer, based on the expected demand of goods, enabling the retailer to place one or more orders based on the plurality of personalized recommendations and processing the one or more orders, of the retailer, by using services provided by one or more vendors. The system includes an electronic device that enables a retailer to place one or more orders, a communication interface in electronic communication with the electronic device, a memory that stores instructions, and a processor including a transaction management module, a data management module, a personalized recommendation module and an incentive management module. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297382 | NETWORK TRANSACTION PLATFORM AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a network transaction platform, comprising: a personal space for publishing and residing at least one user tag defined by a buyer user, wherein information contained in each of the user tags is for describing a consumer demand of the buyer user; a database for storing commodity information and at least one commodity tag corresponding to the commodity information, wherein information contained in the commodity tag is for describing a consumer demand to which the commodity information is directed; and a retrieval module for retrieving from the database a commodity tag matching the user tag stored in the personal space and corresponding commodity information, and pushing and residing the commodity information in the personal space. Accordingly, the present invention further discloses a processing method for a network transaction platform. By means of the present invention, it is possible to give optimal result feedback according to a vague consumer demand put forward by a buyer user and provide a more rapid and accurate match result for scattered personal searches. | 2013-11-07 |