48th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110295545 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL OPERATION IN A HYDROCRACKER - A system and method for detecting abnormal operation of a hydrocracker includes a model to model the hydrocracker. The model may be configurable to include one or more regression models corresponding to different operating regions of the portion of the hydrocracker. The system and method may also determine if a monitored temperature difference variable deviates significantly from the temperature difference variable predicted by the model. If there is a significant deviation, this may indicate an abnormal operation. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295546 | MEMS ACCELEROMETER DEVICE - A MEMS accelerometer device for use with a machine having a housing with a threaded aperture, and an external data acquisition system, the device including a stud defining a chamber and having a threaded body configured to fasten into the threaded aperture, a printed circuit board disposed in the chamber, an accelerometer sensor chip mounted on and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, and a communication device electrically connected to the printed circuit board and configured for providing measurement data to the data acquisition system. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295547 | BODY MOTION DETECTION DEVICE - The invention improves a degree of freedom of a usage mode and improves measurement accuracy. An exercise amount meter main body including an acceleration detection unit for detecting acceleration, and a calculation unit for executing a body motion calculating process for calculating body motion of a living body based on acceleration data, further includes an attachment/detachment guide for allowing a belt type attachment body and a clip type attachment body to be attached or detached, wherein the calculation unit executes an attachment/detachment detection process for detecting attachment or detachment from the change in acceleration that appears in the acceleration data when attaching or detaching the belt type attachment body or the clip type attachment body to or from the attachment/detachment guide, and executes the body motion calculating process based on the detected attachment/detachment while switching to a mode complying with a state after the attachment/detachment. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295548 | ROAD CONFIGURATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ROAD CONFIGURATION ESTIMATION METHOD - There is provided a road configuration estimation apparatus that precludes influences of erroneous detection of an object and erroneous still determination and estimates a road configuration. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295549 | ANGULAR VELOCITY ESTIMATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ANGULAR VELOCITY ESTIMATION METHOD - An angular velocity estimation apparatus of the invention is provided to estimate the angular velocity of a moving object with good accuracy. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295550 | MEASURING DEVICE OF THREAD PARAMETERS FOR THREADED JOINTS - Thread parameters for a threaded object are determined. Spatial reference systems (X, Y, Z) and (X′, Y′, Z′) are respectively identified for a position sensor and the threaded object. A transformation matrix describing a quadratic form representing the threaded object in (X, Y, Z) may be determined to relate the reference systems. For example, a sensor trajectory on the threaded object may be determined, along with measurement points on the threaded object. The measurement points may be selected so the matrix, evaluated on these values, has maximum rank. Position data at measurement points in the second reference system may be transformed into the first reference system, yielding first results. After coating the threaded object, position data at the measurement points may be acquired again and transformed into the first reference system, yielding second results. Comparisons between the first and second results may provide thickness of the coating and quality verification. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295551 | LOCATION-BASED NOVELTY INDEX VALUE AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention is a system and method for computing a result for a location, wherein the result indicates how novel it is for a wireless device to occupy a specific location. After determining the location of a wireless device through various means, a Novelty Index Value (NIV) is calculated for the location, and the NIV is then stored into a database. The NIV may then be subsequently used by application programs to compute a desired result from the NIV. Multiple users may utilize and/or share the same NIV values. The NIV may also be used to alter the configuration of a wireless device as well. A recommendation system is also disclosed, wherein user context is utilized along with NIV values to compute particular results for a user. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295552 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING BEARING COURSE OF TRAFFIC ROUTE - In the method an existing surface of a bearing course ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110295553 | GAME APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM - A gravity direction calculating apparatus for calculating a direction of gravity with respect to an input device, including: an obtaining logic unit for successively obtaining acceleration data output from a multi-axis acceleration sensor included in the input device; a period detecting logic unit for detecting a period from start to end of movement of the input device, as a movement period, based on the obtained acceleration data; and a gravity direction calculating logic unit for calculating a sum of one or more acceleration vectors corresponding to one or more pieces of acceleration data obtained during the movement period, a direction determined by a vector indicated by the sum being the gravity direction, wherein the acceleration vector is a vector whose components are acceleration values with respect to a plurality of axes of acceleration values with respect to axes indicated by the acceleration data. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295554 | Equipment For Manufacturing Semiconductor Device And Seasoning Process Method Of The Same - Disclosed is an apparatus for processing a semiconductor and a method for generating a seasoning process of a reaction chamber. The method may include generating plasma in the reaction chamber using a production process recipe, obtaining at least one reference measurement value related to a byproduct of the generated plasma, performing a plurality of seasoning tests on the chamber to obtain a plurality of test results, generating an empirical model by forming at least one relational expression correlating variables manipulated during the performing of the plurality of seasoning tests to the plurality of test results, and estimating a seasoning process by using the at least one relational expression to estimate at least one estimated calculation value. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295555 | Method and System for Determining a Lithographic Process Parameter - The present invention relates to a method for determining parameter value related to a lithographic process by which a marker structure has been applied on a product substrate based on obtaining calibration measurement data, with an optical detection apparatus, from a calibration marker structure set on a calibration substrate, including at least one calibration marker structure created using different known values of the parameter. The method further determines a mathematical model by using said known values of said at least one parameter and by employing a regression technique on said calibration measurement data, obtains product measurement data, with said optical detection apparatus, from a product marker structure on the product substrate, with at least one product marker structure being exposed with an unknown value of said at least one parameter. Furthermore, the method determines the unknown value of at least one parameter for the product substrate from the obtained product measurement data, wherein the optical detection apparatus may be a SEM and the obtained data includes an image obtained by the SEM. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295556 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSING THE CONDITION OF A MACHINE HAVING A ROTATING PART - A method for analyzing the condition of a machine having a rotating shaft, includes:
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20110295557 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A method for analyzing the condition of a machine having a rotating shaft, including:
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20110295558 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FAULTS IN A BRUSHLESS EXCITER FOR A GENERATOR - A method and system is provided for operating an electrical machine. The method includes the steps of, providing a brushless excitation system including a diode rectifier having at least one diode, sensing heat energy generated by at least one resistor connected in parallel with the diode, and detecting a deviation of the generated heat energy from the at least one resistor. Another step generates a signal indicating an error in a diode or a failed or faulty diode if the deviation in generated heat energy exceeds a predetermined threshold deviation level. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295559 | MAINTENANCE OF INTELLIGENT ASSETS - A work performance acquisition module of an intelligent assets maintenance system obtains work performance data of intelligent assets from a device operation production control system. A status monitoring module obtains operation status data of the intelligent assets. A loss calculation module calculates a loss degree of the intelligent assets according to the obtained work performance and operation status data. A maintenance determining module determines whether the intelligent assets need maintenance according to the loss degree of the intelligent assets. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295560 | CRITICALITY OF DATA - One use of datalogger's is for gathering physiological conditional data about a person. A person can carry a datalogger and any associated sensors whilst they are in motion. The data recorded by the datalogger can then be uploaded to a third party system for analysis. Datalogger's that record physiological information have a variety of uses. For example, they can be used for medical purposes to monitor a patient's response to a course of treatment, or to monitor background factors about a person's lifestyle that may allow a doctor to advise on healthy living, and for sports purposes, to monitor an athlete's performance. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295561 | Method of Collecting Device-Condition Information and Device-Condition Information Collecting Kit Used Therefor - Accurate device-condition information of and relating to a number of devices to be managed are collected in an efficient manner. The number of devices to be managed are divided between a direct collection group comprised of some managed devices whose device-condition information are collected by detecting operation by a portable (mobile) unit for device condition detection on each one of these managed devices and an indirect collection group comprised of the other managed devices whose device-condition information are collected by communication between each one of these managed devices and a stationary unit disposed to be capable of detecting the device-condition information of the device. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295562 | Method and system for noise simulation analysis useable with systems including time-of-flight depth systems - An analytical tool useable with complex systems receives as input various system parameters to predict whether sufficiently accurate quality depth data will be provided by the TOF system. Depth data quality estimates involve dividing system operation into smaller operations whose individual depth data quality contributions can be more readily computed. The effect of the individual operations is combined and the tool outputs a depth data quality estimate accounting for the net result of the various unique operations performed by the system. When used with a TOF system, input parameters may include magnitude and angular distribution of TOF emitted optical energy, desired signal/noise, sensor characteristics, TOF imaging optics, target object distances and locations, and magnitude of ambient light. Analytical tool output data can ensure adequate calculation accuracy to optimize the TOF system pre-mass production, even for TOF systems whose sequence of operations and sensor operations are flexibly programmable. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295563 | Method and System for Simulation of Automated Processes - Systems, methods, and computer readable mediums. A method includes receiving a three dimensional model for a simulation that includes a first material portion that extends between first and second material handling elements. The method includes simulating motion of the first and second material handling elements and simulating an interaction between the first material portion and the first and second material handling elements. The method includes maintaining a constraint between the first and second material handling elements according to the first material portion, dynamically updating the model and displaying the simulation, and storing the model. A method for fluid simulation is also discussed. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295564 | COMPUTING OF A RESULTING CLOSED TRIANGULATED POLYHEDRAL SURFACE FROM A FIRST AND A SECOND MODELED OBJECTS - The invention is directed to a computer-implemented process, in a computer-aided geometric design system, for computing a resulting closed triangulated polyhedral surface from a first and a second modeled objects. The first modeled object is modeled by a first closed triangulated polyhedral surface and the second modeled object is modeled by a second closed triangulated polyhedral surface. The process according to the invention comprises:
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20110295565 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF INTEGRATED SIMULATIONS FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC BODY EMBEDDED WITH MEDICAL IMPLANTS - Methods and computer readable media for designing an implant to support a bone of a person. Based on the daily activities of the person, one or more musculoskeletal loads applied to the bone are determined. Also, a set of characteristics of the implant, such as dimension, material, geometry, and shape of the implant, is selected. Then, a numerical simulation of the implant and the bone is performed to determine a physical status of the implant under the musculoskeletal loads. Subsequently, it is determined if the physical status meets one or more of preset failure conditions. If the determination is negative, the implant is taken as an optimized implant. Otherwise, at least one of the characteristics of the implant is modified and numerical simulation of the implant and the bone is repeated until an optimized implant is obtained. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295566 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS TO BE FABRICATED - A computer-aided design apparatus generates a tree structure of coordinate systems defining the topology of a three-dimensional object to be fabricated. The coordinate systems are positioned and orientated in accordance with mathematical functions. The mathematical function positioning child coordinate systems has the identity of the parent coordinate systems as a variable so that the positions of the child coordinate systems relative to their parent coordinate systems vary in accordance with the identity of the parent coordinate systems. Data defining the coordinate systems and connections therebetween is stored in a graph. Bases having a defined relationship are identified and three-dimensional content objects are added thereto. The content objects are added using the same mathematical function to generate a three-dimensional content object in each of a plurality of coordinate systems. The mathematical function for generating the content objects has the identity of the coordinate systems as a variable thereof to generate the content object in each coordinate system with a different shape. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295567 | MIXTURE MODELING WITH COMPONENT-DEPENDENT PARTITIONS - Described are variational Expectation Maximization (EM) embodiments for learning a mixture model using component-dependent data partitions, where the E-step is sub-linear in sample size while the algorithm still maintains provable convergence guarantees. Component-dependent data partitions into blocks of data items are constructed according to a hierarchical data structure comprised of nodes, where each node corresponds to one of the blocks and stores statistics computed from the data items in the corresponding block. A modified variational EM algorithm computes the mixture model from initial component-dependent data partitions and a variational R-step updates the partitions. This process is repeated until convergence. Component membership probabilities computed in the E-step are constrained such that all data items belonging to a particular block in a particular component-dependent partition behave in the same way. The E-step can therefore consider the blocks or chunks of data items via their representative statistics, rather than considering individual data items. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295568 | Method for determining a vortex geometry - The invention relates to a method for determining a vortex geometry change of rotor vortices which are formed on a rotor which comprises a plurality of rotor blades. A dynamic lift distribution on the rotor plane is determined as a function of a lift change, which is correlated with n-times the rotor rotation frequency, on the rotor blades, from which the associated induced vertical velocities on the rotor plane can then be determined. The vortex geometry change is then calculated as a function of these induced vertical velocities. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295569 | WIND ESTIMATION FOR AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE - The speed of the wind during operation of a UAV is estimated. In one example the speed of the wind is estimated by modeling an acceleration of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on a measured ground speed of the UAV, determining an actual acceleration of the UAV with one or more sensors, and estimating the speed of the wind as an integral of a difference between the modeled acceleration and the actual acceleration. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295570 | Sheet Metal Forming Failure Prediction Using Numerical Simulations - Systems and methods of predicting sheet metal forming failure using numerical simulations (e.g., finite element analysis) are disclosed. A FEA model is defined for a particular sheet metal forming process. Blank sheet metal is modeled with a plurality of shell elements. Additionally, a deformation path-dependent forming limit diagram (FLD) is converted to a path-independent FLD. A time-marching simulation of the sheet metal forming process is conducted using the FEA model. At each solution cycle, equivalent strain at each integration point of shell element is checked against the corresponding forming limit strain value of the path-independent FLD. The ratio of the equivalent strain and the forming limit strain is defined as formability index. A time history of the formability index of each shell element is saved into a file and displayed to a monitor upon user's instructions. When a particular element's formability index reaches one or higher, a localized necking is predicted. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295571 | DIFFUSION CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION GENERATING METHOD AND PROCESS SIMULATOR - A diffusion concentration distribution generating method conducted by a process simulator is disclosed. The process simulator calculates a defect quantity Q | 2011-12-01 |
20110295572 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FLEXIBLE MECHATRONIC SYSTEM - A method for producing a flexible mechatronic system includes: a step of modeling the system by a mesh composed of a given combination of elementary blocks, each block being formed of a predefined assemblage of segments representing elementary beams, the mesh including at least one active block controllable by means of a control signal; a step of simulating the behavior of a terminal node of the model in open-loop response to a control signal; a step of characterizing the response by at least one static mechanical criterion and at least one numerical criterion representative of the decay of the resonance spikes of the response as a function of frequency. The above steps may be repeated. They are then followed by a step of selecting a design as a function of the criteria defined in the characterization step, the system being produced on the basis of the selected model. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295573 | MODEL EXPRESSION GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - When model expressions of objective functions are generated at vertexes of a quadrilateral on a plane concerning P and N channels of transistors in SRAM, the initial number of times of simulation is allocated to each objective function at each designated vertex according to weight values set based on relationships presumed among the objective functions at each designated vertex. For each objective function at each designated vertex, first simulation is executed the allocated number of times. Furthermore, a model expression is generated from the first simulation result, and an evaluation indicator of an approximation accuracy of the model expression is calculated. Then, for each model expression, it is determined whether the corresponding model expression has influence on the yield, and based on the evaluation indicator of the corresponding model expression and presence or absence of the influence, it is determined whether additional simulation is required for the corresponding objective function. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295574 | DEVICE FOR BALANCING A SIMULATION PLATFORM, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - The invention relates to balancing a simulation platform ( | 2011-12-01 |
20110295575 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOMATIC MODELING OF A DIVERSE RESOURCE BASE ACROSS BROAD LANDSCAPES - A system and method for modeling resource availability includes a data collection system including one or more data collection devices configured to collect and collecting information pertaining to resource availability in a geographic region, and a modeling system, coupled to the data collection system, including one or more computing devices configured to process and processing the collected information to generate data that identifies one or more development sites specific to the geographic region, based on resource availability and add-on information specific to the geographic region. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295576 | COLLISION DETERMINATION DEVICE AND COLLISION DETERMINATION PROGRAM - A collision determination device includes a target cell designation unit that designates a target cell for a voxel model which represents the shape of a first object. A determination test point generation unit generates determination test points for the target cell. A spatial curve creation unit creates a spatial curve as the trajectory curve of a determination test point. A curve intersecting determination unit determines whether or not each boundary element of a boundary representation model representing the shape of a second object is intersecting the spatial curve. A distance computation unit computes the closest distance from the spatial curve to the boundary surface of the boundary representation model. A collision determination unit determines, based on the determination result and the computation result, whether there is a possibility of collision between both objects. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295577 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Estimating Crowd Sizes Using Information Collected From Mobile Devices in a Wireless Communications Network - Systems, methods, and computer program products are for estimating crowd size at a location. An exemplary method includes determining, at a crowd size analyzer, a number of wireless service users at the location, and estimating, at the crowd size analyzer, a total number of people at the location based upon the number of wireless service users determined to be at the location. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295578 | PARTITIONING BLOCK DIAGRAMS INTO EXECUTABLE CONTEXTUAL MODELS - A system and method generates contextual information for a source model. An identification of one or more first model elements of interest within the source model may be received. One or more constraints on inputs of selected model elements also may be received. A scope of analysis regarding outputs of the first model elements may be specified. The contextual information may be derived automatically for the one or more first model elements. The contextual information may include one or more model elements, signals, or states that are contained with the scope of analysis while execution of the source model is limited by the one or more constraints. The derived contextual information may be provided to an output device. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295579 | AUTOMATIC VASCULAR MODEL GENERATION BASED ON FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS (FSI) - A computer system and method are disclosed for automatically generating a vascular model of a blood vessel to support, for example, identification of mechanical factors corresponding to the blood vessel. The method includes interpolating data points corresponding to a contour of the blood vessel; generating a structural model representing three-dimensional structural characteristics of the blood vessel based on interpolated contours; generating a fluid model representing three-dimensional characteristics of fluid flow within the vessel; and generating a vascular model based on the structural model and the fluid model. The method may also include performing a mechanical analysis of the vascular model to identify a mechanical factor associated with the vessel, for example, a factor associated with a potential plaque rupture within the vessel. Embodiments of the invention are applicable to the diagnosis, assessment, or treatment of cardiovascular diseases. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295580 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING CONSISTENT AND INTEGRATED PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF POROUS MEDIA - A method and system for obtaining a consistent and integrated set of physical properties of a sample specimen of porous media, e.g., rock, in which a specimen is prepared for imaging. The specimen is imaged multiple times to yield a set of images that undergo a segmentation process to provide a digital representation of the sample specimen. The digital representation provides a view of the solid phase and pore space of the sample specimen. The digital representation may be used to determine a plurality of physical properties of the sample porous specimen, such that the sample porous specimen may remain intact throughout the method. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295581 | MULTI-PHASIC DYNAMIC KARST RESERVOIR NUMERICAL SIMULATOR - A multi-phasic dynamic reservoir simulator includes a reservoir model for a karst system comprising: a plurality of caves connected via at least one conduit, wherein the plurality of caves and the at least one conduit are filled with at least two types of fluids, an exit point for a fluid to leave the karst system and at least one entry point for a fluid to enter the karst system from a surrounding rock matrix, and a set of parameters defining volumes and distributions of the at least two types of fluids in the plurality of caves and the at least one conduit; and a program having instructions for causing a processor to simulate fluid flows in the reservoir model for the karst system. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295582 | Crystal Structure of Queuosine Biosynthesis Enzyme QueF Bound to Substrate PreQ0 - This invention provides for the design of novel nitrile oxidoreductases that can be used as biocatalysts for industrial chemical processes and; and thus, provide attractive alternatives to traditional chemical synthesis. Generally, this technology relates to crystal structures of nitrile oxidoreductases, and of crystal structures of nitrile oxidoreductases complexed with substrates and co-factors. For example, the invention provides for the crystalline structure of the nitrile oxidoreductase, QueF, as well as for a computer-readable medium having QueF crystal structure information stored thereon. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295583 | MONITORING CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR OF A HUMAN SUBJECT - A system and method of identifying changes in behavior of a human subject comprises monitoring the movements of the subject within a space using one or more sensors, processing signals from the sensor(s) to determine values for one or more parameters associated with one or more patterns of behavior of the subject, using values for the one or more parameters accumulated over a period of time to establish one or more models of a typical pattern of behavior for the subject, monitoring the ongoing behavior of the subject to obtain current values for one or more of the parameters; and using the current values and the model(s) of a typical pattern of behavior to identify atypical behavior of the subject. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295584 | VERIFICATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, LOGIC VERIFICATION DEVICE, AND VERIFICATION SUPPORT METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium configured to store a verification support program, the program causing a computer to execute logic verification operations for a system including a plurality of control circuits, and a plurality of hardware units that correspond to the control circuits. The logic verification operations are executed using a verification model of the system. The verification model includes a control circuit model which has a function of the control circuit, and a plurality of hardware models which have functions of the plurality of hardware units. The logic verification operations include accepting instructions from the plurality of hardware models by the control circuit model; selecting an instruction to be processed by one of the plurality of hardware models from the accepted instructions by the control circuit model; and reporting a processing request of the selected instruction to the plurality of hardware models by the control circuit model. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295585 | OPTIMAL SELF-MAINTAINED ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND USE - The present invention provides novel techniques for controlling energy systems. In particular, parametric hybrid models may be used to parameterize inputs and outputs of groups of equipment of energy systems. Each parametric hybrid model may include an empirical model, a parameter model, and a dynamic model. Critical parameters for groups of equipment modeled by the parametric hybrid models, which are correlated with, but not the same as, input and output variables of the groups of equipment may be monitored during operation of the energy system. The critical parameters may be used to generate optimal trajectories for the energy system, which may be used to control the energy system. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295586 | CLOCK SIMULATION DEVICE AND METHODS THEREOF - A pulse width of a simulated external system clock is set by determining a least common multiple of the frequency of selected internal clock signals relative to the frequency of the external system clock. The pulse width can be further adjusted based on the frequency of simulated external clocks. By setting the pulse width of the simulated external system clock based on the least common multiple value, the time required to complete the simulation can be reduced while ensuring proper operation of the simulated clock signals during the simulation. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295587 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATING A PROCESSOR - A method is described for simulating a set of instructions to be executed on a processor. The method comprises performing a functional simulation of the processor over a number of simulation cycles. Performing the functional simulation of the processor thereby may comprise using an analytical model comprising a timing estimator and estimating during the functional simulation timing information of the processor. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295588 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIMULATING A SOFTWARE APPLICATION TO EXECUTE IN A SYSTEM - A method for simulation of a software program able to be run in a system and to control at least one action on expiration of a counter of the system, includes:
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20110295589 | LOCATING PARAPHRASES THROUGH UTILIZATION OF A MULTIPARTITE GRAPH - A method is described herein that includes acts of receiving a selection of a first phrase in a first language and executing a random walk over a computer-implemented multipartite graph, wherein the multipartite-graph includes a first set of nodes that are representative of phrases in the first language, a second set of nodes that are representative of phrases in a second language, and edges between nodes that are representative of relationships between the respective phrases. The random walk includes traversals over edges of the graph between nodes. The method also includes the act of indicating that a second phrase in the first language is a paraphrase of the first phrase based at least in part upon the random walk. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295590 | 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. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ACQUIRE PARAPHRASES - An automatic paraphrase acquisition technique is provided. A common theme of the various embodiments described herein resides in careful design of simple tasks that can elicit the necessary information for the automated process. These tasks are performed quickly and inexpensively. By gathering the results produced, paraphrases can be generated automatically using the method and/or system. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295592 | Survey Analysis and Categorization Assisted by a Knowledgebase - The disclosure generally relates to knowledge retrieval using a knowledgebase storing general and/or expert knowledge. In particular, the disclosure relates to using an enhanced knowledgebase to implement a tool for analysis and categorization of surveys. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295593 | AUTOMATED MESSAGE ATTACHMENT LABELING USING FEATURE SELECTION IN MESSAGE CONTENT - Embodiments are directed towards an automated machine learning framework to extract keywords within a message that are relevant to an attachment to the message. The machine learning model finds a set of relevant sentences within the message determined to be relevant to the one or more attachments based on identification of one or more sentence level features within a given sentence. The sentence level features include, for example, anchor features, noisy sentence features, short message features, threading features, anaphora detections, and lexicon features. From the set of relevant sentences, useful keywords may be extracted using a sequence of heuristics to convert the sentence set into the set of useful keywords. The set of useful keywords may then be associated to at least one attachment such that the keywords may subsequently be used to perform various indexing, searching, sorting, and to provide further context to the attachment. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295594 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING TEXT USING OBJECT COREFERENCE TECHNOLOGY - System, method and program product for text processing using object coreference technology. In particular, the invention provides a text processing method which includes, acquiring text to be processed; extracting subject words and entity words corresponding to the subject words from the text; grouping the subject words; determining entity words that reference a same concerned object according to the grouped subject words; and generating processing policy for entity words that reference a same concerned object. The invention also includes a system with means for carrying out the method. The invention generally realizes automatic, more comprehensive, accurate, efficient analysis and processing on text data. The invention can be used to dig a large amount of comment data about some entity, and the invention can also be used to suggest insertion place in an article where embedded advertisement is inserted. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295595 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING, TEMPLATE GENERATION AND CONCEPT LIBRARY GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention relates to document processing method and apparatus which can edit a natural language and generate a machine-processable document; a template generating method and apparatus which can be used for document processing method and apparatus; a concept library generating method and apparatus which can be used for the document processing method and apparatus and the template generating method and apparatus. The present invention provided a possibility for semantic interaction of documents in different systems and enhances efficiency. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295596 | DIGITAL VOICE RECORDING DEVICE WITH MARKING FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF - A digital voice recording device includes a storage unit, a display unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit includes a recording module, a storing module, a marking module, and a playing module. The recording module converts audio into digital signals, and records the digital signals into an audio file. Each audio file is associated with a document including textual content of the audio file. The storing module stores the audio file and the document. The display module displays the document. The marking module creates a plurality of flags for the audio file. Each flag is associated with a time point in the audio file, and is assigned an identifier. The playing module identifies an identifier of a flag to acquire a time point in response to a user input, and begin playing the audio file from the acquired time point. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF EMOTIONAL CONTENT OF SPEECH - A method and apparatus for automated analysis of emotional content of speech is presented. Telephony calls are routed via a network such as public service telephone network (PSTN) and delivered to an interactive voice response system (IVR) where prerecorded or synthesized prompts guide a caller to speech responses. Speech responses are analyzed for emotional content in real time or collected via recording and analyzed in batch. If performed in real time, results of emotional content analysis (ECA) may be used as input to IVR call processing and call routing. In some applications this might involve ECA input to expert system process whose results interact with an IVR for prompt creation and call processing. In any case, ECA data is valuable on its own and may be culled and restated in the form of reports for business application. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295598 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR WIDEBAND SPEECH CODING - Methods of audio coding are described in which an excitation signal for a first frequency band of the audio signal is used to calculate an excitation signal for a second frequency band of the audio signal that is separated from the first frequency band. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295599 | Aligning Scheme for Audio Signals - Methods, devices, and computer programs described herein may segment a reference signal that corresponds to a non-degraded signal into a plurality of reference signal segments; generate filter coefficients based on each reference signal segment; and filter each reference signal segment with its corresponding generated filter coefficients. The methods, devices, and computer programs may also filter a degraded signal, which includes a delayed signal of the reference signal, with each of the generated filtering coefficients to produce a number of degraded signals equivalent to a number of the plurality of reference signal segments; perform time-wise alignment for each filtered degraded signal with respect to each corresponding filtered reference signal segment; and output a time offset based on the performing. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295600 | Apparatus and method determining weighting function for linear prediction coding coefficients quantization - An apparatus determining a weighting function for line prediction coding coefficients quantization converts a linear prediction coding (LPC) coefficient of an input signal into one of a line spectral frequency (LSF) coefficient and an immitance spectral frequency (ISF) coefficient and determines a weighting function associated with one of an importance of the ISF coefficient and importance of the LSF coefficient using one of the converted ISF coefficient and the converted LSF coefficient. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295601 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF SPEECH CODING SCHEME - Methods and systems for extracting speech from such packet streams. The methods and systems analyze the encoded speech in a given packet stream, and automatically identify the actual speech coding scheme that was used to produce it. These techniques may be used, for example, in interception systems where the identity of the actual speech coding scheme is sometimes unavailable or inaccessible. For instance, the identity of the actual speech coding scheme may be sent in a separate signaling stream that is not intercepted. As another example, the identity of the actual speech coding scheme may be sent in the same packet stream as the encoded speech, but in encrypted form. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295602 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MODEL ADAPTATION FOR SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING - An apparatus and a method are provided for building a spoken language understanding model. Labeled data may be obtained for a target application. A new classification model may be formed for use with the target application by using the labeled data for adaptation of an existing classification model. In some implementations, the existing classification model may be used to determine the most informative examples to label. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295603 | SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT THROUGH SPEAKER CATEGORIES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition. In one aspect, a computer-based method includes receiving a speech corpus at a speech management server system that includes multiple speech recognition engines tuned to different speaker types; using the speech recognition engines to associate the received speech corpus with a selected one of multiple different speaker types; and sending a speaker category identification code that corresponds to the associated speaker type from the speech management server system over a network. The speaker category identification code can be used by any one of speech-interactive applications coupled to the network to select one of an appropriate one of multiple application-accessible speech recognition engines tuned to the different speaker types in response to an indication that a user accessing the application is associated with a particular one of the speaker category identification codes. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION OF THE UNDERSTANDABILITY OF SPEECH - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for processing a message received from a user to determine whether an estimate of intelligibility is below an intelligibility threshold. The method includes recognizing a portion of a user's message that contains the one or more expected utterances from a critical information list, calculating an estimate of intelligibility for the recognized portion of the user's message that contains the one or more expected utterances, and prompting the user to repeat at least the recognized portion of the user's message if the calculated estimate of intelligibility for the recognized portion of the user's message is below an intelligibility threshold. In one aspect, the method further includes prompting the user to repeat at least a portion of the message if any of a measured speech level and a measured signal-to-noise ratio of the user's message are determined to be below their respective thresholds. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295605 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH ADJUSTABLE MEMORY USAGE - This speech recognition system provides a function that is capable of adjusting memory usage according to the different target resources. It extracts a sequence of feature vectors from input speech signal. A module for constructing search space reads a text file and generates a word-level search space in an off-line phase. After removing redundancy, the word-level search space is expanded to a phone-level one and is represented by a tree-structure. This may be performed by combining the information from dictionary which gives the mapping from a word to its phonetic sequence(s). In the online phase, a decoder traverses the search space, takes the dictionary and at least one acoustic model as input, computes score of feature vectors and outputs decoding result. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295606 | CONTEXTUAL CONVERSION PLATFORM - A contextual conversion platform, and method for converting text-to-speech, are described that can convert content of a target to spoken content. Embodiments of the contextual conversion platform can identify certain contextual characteristics of the content, from which can be generated a spoken content input. This spoken content input can include tokens, e.g., words and abbreviations, to be converted to the spoken content, as well as substitution tokens that are selected from contextual repositories based on the context identified by the contextual conversion platform. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295607 | System and Method for Recognizing Emotional State from a Speech Signal - A computerized method, software, and system for recognizing emotions from a speech signal, wherein statistical and MFCC features are extracted from the speech signal, the MFCC features are sorted to provide a basis for comparison between the speech signal and reference samples, the statistical and MFCC features are compared between the speech signal and reference samples, a scoring system is used to compare relative correlation to different emotions, a probable emotional state is assigned to the speech signal based on the scoring system, and the probable emotional state is communicated to a user. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295608 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING HIGH FREQUENCY RECONSTRUCTION - The present invention proposes a new method and a new apparatus for enhancement of audio source coding systems utilising high frequency reconstruction (HFR). It utilises a detection mechanism on the encoder side to assess what parts of the spectrum will not be correctly reproduced by the HFR method in the decoder. Information on this is efficiently coded and sent to the decoder, where it is combined with the output of the HFR unit. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295609 | ITEMIZING POLLUTANTS OF ACTIVITIES - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for itemizing pollutants of activities may be provided. The method may include receiving a first quantity of an activity that indicates an amount of the activity that is performed. The method may further include accessing a list of one or more pollutants that are released when the activity is performed. One or more pollutant factors may be selected. Each pollutant factor may be associated with a pollutant of the one or more pollutants and may indicate an amount of the associated pollutant released when the activity is performed. One or more pollutant quantities of the one or more pollutants may be calculated according to the first quantity of the performed activity and the pollutant factor associated with the pollutant. The method may also include facilitating display of the one or more pollutant quantities. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295610 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING INSTALLATION CAPACITIES OF HYBRID ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEM - A method for installation capacities of a hybrid energy generation system is disclosed. The hybrid energy generation system may include a plurality of power systems. According to the environment factors and practical requirements of the installation site, the mechanism of the present invention may find the golden ratio of the installation capacities among the different power systems. Furthermore, the present invention may obtain the combination of installation capacities associated with the minimum recovery period, thereby further decreasing the installation cost and the efficiency of the hybrid energy generation system. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295611 | Method, process and apparatus for preserving biological materials and information concerning biological materials for the use of descendants and future generations. - We present a method, process and apparatus for preserving biological materials and information concerning biological materials for the use of descendents and future generations. The method can be implemented as a service provided to various parties such as persons, institutions, organizations, associations etc. The purpose of this invention is to provide a method consists essentialy of keeping the biological materials that these parties want (e.g. said party's DNA, blood tissue, muscle tissue, bone tissue donated by the certain donor) such that these materials are made available for the use of future generation and descendents of such parties as far in the future as possible. Another purpose of this invention is to provide a prcoess consisting essentially of performing scientific, medical and genetic investigations of the said biological materials and keeping the obtained information for the use of the donor and for the use of future generations. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER MODELIZATION - The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for user modelization. In one embodiment, a method builds a profile that describes the interests of a user by monitoring automatically over time a plurality of interactions between the user and a computing device controlled by the user. The plurality of interactions includes interactions with a plurality of different computer applications. The method further includes extracting automatically electronic data from the plurality of interactions and determining automatically the interests in accordance with the electronic data. The method then saves the interests in the profile, such that the profile is based on behaviors specific to the user. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295613 | Inpatient utilization management system and method - A method for admitting a patient includes creating an inpatient value set by collecting a respective value for each of a plurality of datapoints about the patient. The inpatient value set can then be compared with an historical dataset, the dataset representing a plurality of other patients each having a respective corresponding value set for the plurality of datapoints associated with a respective set of utilization management information. Based on the comparison, a particular set of utilization management information that is associated with a particular corresponding value set which is substantially the same as the inpatient value set is identified within the historical dataset. Ultimately, based on the particular set of utilization management information, a predicted length of stay for the patient is calculated. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295614 | HEALTHCARE POINT OF SERVICE ADJUDICATION AND PAYMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods are described that facilitate providing an online, automated payment architecture that aggregates funds from multiple health-related accounts (e.g., a member's HSA, an employer's advance account, etc.) and automatically transfers the aggregated funds to a healthcare provider's account to pay a bill or invoice. According to other aspects, healthcare fraud is prevented by storing electronic images of members and their dependents, wherein the images can be recalled by a healthcare provider at the point of service to verify that the member or dependent is actually a covered member. In other aspects, the described systems and methods permit members to negotiate reduced invoice payments in exchange for prompt delivery of payment funds. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295615 | POST-SURGICAL ACCESSORY CONVENIENCE KIT - A post-surgical accessory convenience kit, or PACK, and associated devices and methods that allows communication of a patient's post-operative needs and regimens. The PACK and associated devices allows monitoring and remote transmitting of a patient's needs and regimens. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295616 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SITUATIONAL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT WITH PATIENT EVENT MONITORING - Systems and methods for clinical event processing with situational awareness to dynamically facilitate a clinician's workflow are provided. An example clinical event processing and situational awareness system includes a clinical event processor including a clinical event processing engine and a routing engine to receive information regarding a clinical event from an event source and to process the information regarding the clinical event to determine a clinical situation based on the clinical event. The system also includes an event handler to enrich the processed information regarding the clinical event by adding a clinical context to the processed information from a data source. The system further includes a dispatcher to notify a user and launch an anticipated application for the user to facilitate a situational aware clinical workflow based on the enriched, processed information regarding the clinical event. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295617 | OPHTHALMOLOGIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Provided is a method for the management of a patient's ophthalmic information which enables eyecare professionals, particularly ophthalmologists, to obtain, with a patient's consent, a patient's latest optical data, including that derived from prior ophthalmological surgical procedures. Subsequent surgical procedures, performed using such data and surgical parameters calculated therefrom, can give results having increased effectiveness. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295618 | Apparatus and method for generating quality informatics knowledge - An apparatus and method for generating quality informatics knowledge. The apparatus and method include developing a policy and/or procedure developed for a quality improvement program; defining set of data to be used in implementing the policy and/or procedure developed for the quality improvement program; modifying and/or creating electronic documents on an EHR system and/or fields in the electronic documents on the EHR system for a healthcare provider to input at least a portion of the defined data set, wherein the EHR system including an EHR database configured to store the clinical data and a clinician workstation configured to receive the clinical data as input from a healthcare provider; entering clinical data into the EHR system via the clinician workstation, the clinical data including the defined data set; storing the clinical data on the EHR database; scheduling a time to extract the defined set of data from the clinical data on the EHR database; extracting the defined set of data from the clinical data on the EHR database; manipulating the defined set of data with a graphical database tool; generating electronic reports with the graphical database tool using the defined set of data; disseminating the reports to different healthcare providers; receiving feedback from the healthcare providers on the policy and/or procedure for the quality improvement program; modifying the policy and/or procedure for the quality improvement program based on the feedback received from the healthcare providers; and repeating the preceding steps until the defined set of data identifies progress toward one or more goals of the quality improvement program. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295619 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PATIENT ASSESSMENT - The present invention relates to systems for collecting patient data and for analysing the data for the purpose of managing patient assessment procedures. In particular, the invention relates to a system for using collected patient data for the purpose of prioritising patients for assessment by clinicians. In particular, the invention provides a system for analyzing patient data in an automated system for managing patient assessment. The system includes a database for storing patient assessment data collected from a plurality of patients, a computer processor executing instructions stored in a computer program and a data processing computer program executed by the computer processor. The program comprises instructions for identifying one or more patients who have one or more predetermined care requirements wherein the predetermined care requirement optionally comprises one or more of: further assessment, a predetermined medical or surgical intervention, a funding-related requirement, an incontinence-related requirement, and/or supply of a healthcare product. The present invention also provides a computer program comprising instructions for optionally allocating a value to a patient based on patient assessment data, optionally comparing the allocated patient value with a limit value and identifying one or more patients who are candidates for further assessment optionally according to a proximity of the allocated patient value to a limit of one or more predetermined value ranges containing the patient value. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295620 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED PATIENT SCREENING AND TRIAGE - A computer-based screening instrument system and method comprising a patient interactive device coupled with a data network and an administrative server, the administrative server operatively connected to a database and a printer, wherein the administrative server is configured to serve as a screening instrument to the patient interactive device and to receive responsive information from the patient interactive device; and a triage module, wherein the screening instrument comprises a plurality of issues, an issue having a patient prompt and one or more patient selectable responses, wherein the patient interactive device, for each issue in the screening instrument, displays the related patient prompt, receive an indication of a patient selection of a related patient selectable response and transmit information representing the indication to the administrative server; wherein the administrative server receives the information and stores a patient response record comprising the information received; wherein the triage module compares a particular patient's response record with a set of triage rules and performs at least one of the following: (1) generate and transmit a triage message indicating a patient exigency to a communication device of a member of the patient's professional health care team, and (2) generate and transmit a message indicating the patient's request to discuss an issue with a member of the patient's professional health care team to the communication device. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295621 | Healthcare Information Technology System for Predicting and Preventing Adverse Events - An adverse event may be prevented by predicting the probability of a given patient to have or undergo the adverse event. The probability alone may prevent the adverse event by educating the patient or medical professional. The probability may be predicted at any time, such as upon entry of information for the patient, periodic analysis, or at the time of admission. The probability may be used to generate a workflow action item to reduce the probability, to warn, to output appropriate instructions, and/or assist in avoiding adverse event. The probability may be specific to a hospital, physician group, or other medical entity, allowing prevention to focus on past adverse event causes for the given entity. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295622 | Healthcare Information Technology System for Predicting or Preventing Readmissions - Hospital readmissions may be prevented. Readmission is prevented by predicting the probability of a given patient to be readmitted. The probability alone may prevent readmission by educating the patient or medical professional. The probability may be predicted during a patient stay and used to generate a workflow action item to reduce the probability, to warn, to output appropriate instructions, and/or assist in avoiding readmission. The probability may be specific to a hospital, physician group, or other entity, allowing prevention to focus on past readmission causes for the given entity. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295623 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKERS COMPENSATION DATA PROCESSING AND TRACKING - The present invention relates to a workers compensation related insurance complaint management, processing and reporting system. According to some embodiments, an insurance complaint is received at a conversion system for processing. The received information may be converted to a specified format to populate an interactive web form. The web form may be augmented by various third party data sources and information may be additionally pre-filled through the conversion process. Automated complaint management reminders are generated by the system. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295624 | Insurance Policy Data Analysis and Decision Support System and Method - A method for determining a fire risk score includes extracting data from real estate values, map data, FIRS data, and building data that includes an address, an age, a size, an indication whether or not sprinklers are present, and an indication whether one or more smoke detectors are remotely monitored; assigning weights to the extracted building data; identifying one or more fire stations near the building; obtaining or determining a driving time from the one or more fire stations to the building; performing a statistical regression analysis to: at least the driving time from the one or more fire stations to the building, the age of the building and the size of the building to determine an expected loss to the building in the event of a fire, and calculating a fire risk score for the building to assist an insurance company assess a risk of insuring the building. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295625 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRADING EXCHANGE - A system and method for operating an exchange for the trading of intellectual property rights through the exchange are disclosed. The method includes: storing in a computerized storage device in communication with a microprocessor information describing an intellectual property portfolio and using the microprocessor to determine whether to list on the exchange unitized license rights relating to the portfolio; storing in the storage device information describing a listing on the exchange of the unitized license rights, the listing including initial pricing information; storing in the storage device information describing an insurance policy guaranteeing a minimum value of the unitized license rights; storing in the storage device information describing a change in the pricing information relating to the unitized license rights; | 2011-12-01 |
20110295626 | INFLUENCE ASSESSMENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Social networks have become platforms to disseminate and market information and ideas. A social network, users, and interactions of users may be modeled by graphs, which may be analyzed to determine influential users. In one example, nodes within a graph may be concurrently grouped into node groupings. Influence values corresponding to node counts within node groupings may be assigned to nodes within node groupings. Influential nodes may be determined based upon the assigned influence values. In another example, degrees of nodes (e.g., an edge count of a node) may be used to determine influential nodes within the graph. Upon selecting a node, degrees of neighboring nodes of the selecting node may be discounted because the node was selected. In another example, trees corresponding to a current node and (e.g., maximum) influential paths from other nodes to the current node may be constructed and evaluated to determine a group of nodes. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295627 | System and Method for Calculating an Order Flowthrough - An ordering system backend includes an ordering system module, an exclusion system module, an exception system module, a summary system module, and a display device. The ordering system module is configured to receive ordering data for a plurality of orders and to receive information concerning the flowthrough status of the order. The exclusion system module is configured to generate or receive a plurality of exclusions associated with a plurality of exceptions for the plurality of orders. The exception system module is configured to generate or receive exception data associated with the plurality of orders, to receive the plurality of exclusions from the exclusion system module, and to update the exception data based on the plurality of exclusions. The summary system module is configured to calculate summary level data based on the plurality of orders and the exception data, and to create summary tables based on the summary level data. The display device includes a graphical user interface configured to display the summary tables. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295628 | AUDIENCE TARGETING BASED ON PERFORMANCE HISTORY OF INVITATIONAL CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided for audience targeting based on a performance history of invitational content from secondary content providers, such as advertisements. In operation, responsive to request from a user for content package, a queue of available invitational content is retrieved. Thereafter, based at least on a performance history of the available invitational content in the queue, a context of the primary content, and a performance history of invitational content previously presented to other users, the queue can be at least partially reordered to provide an adjusted queue. The invitational content for the content package can then be selected based on the adjusted queue. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295629 | MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A monitoring system includes a communication information acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a condition information acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a determination information output unit. The communication information acquisition unit acquires communication information contained in each piece of electronic document data and containing identification information about a project and time information corresponding to acquisition time of each piece of electronic document data as target communication information. The information acquisition unit acquires progress information concerning a progress situation about the project based on the target communication information. The condition information acquisition unit acquires condition information relevant to the acquired progress information. The determination unit determines whether or not information corresponding to the target communication information matches a condition indicated by the condition information. The determination information output unit outputs determination information based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295630 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING FINANCIAL SECURITIES BACKED BY CASHFLOW DERIVED FROM ENERGY SAVINGS - A method and system are provided for creating and measuring cashflows based on energy saving improvements made to a structure, e.g., a building, underground facility, or a ship. In one implementation, the invention is directed to a system and method for improving and measuring the energy efficiency of a structure. The system and method may be implemented in hardware or on a computer-readable medium that is non-transitory. A method and system for creating a financial security collateralized by such cashflows associated with an individual structure are disclosed. A method and system for creating a financial security collateralizing a pool of multiple financial securities discussed above are disclosed. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295631 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR MANAGING AND COLLECTING RECEIVABLES - A method, system, and computer-readable medium for managing and collecting receivables are disclosed. Such a method includes providing at least one pre-existing account with first account information, the first account information having first account party data and providing at least one new account, each new account comprising new account information, the new account information having new account party data. The method also includes determining whether the first account party data of the pre-existing account matches the new account party data of the at least one new account and if so, tying the at least one new account with the matching pre-existing account to create a tied account. The method further includes calculating a score for any unmatched new account and any tied account based on at least one financial parameter and applying one or more collection strategies. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295632 | Systems And Methods For Predicting a Livestock Marketing Method - The present invention is directed to methods and systems for improving the efficiency of livestock production using genetic information obtained from the animal. The methods of the invention comprise obtaining a genetic sample from an animal or embryo, determining the genotype of the animal or embryo with respect to specific quality traits, grouping animals with like genotypes, and optionally, further sub-grouping animals based on like phenotypes. The invention is further directed to a method of predicting the carcass quality of an animal by correlating the rate of change in carcass traits with the genotype of the animal. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295633 | AUTOMATED APPLICATION DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - An object oriented design for an automated modeling system for mapping and monitoring the business roles and impact of elements within an IT Infrastructure that make up specific applications or business processes, spanning not only network elements, hosts, servers and programs but also users, company structure and processes. The design including: a series of collector modules for collecting relationship, modeling and status information from both IT and external non IT specific sources used to build a model of the application or process in the database and to gather data about activities occurring on the computer network from a business impact perspective; a series of visualizer modules for reporting monitoring activities conducted by the monitoring system; a modeling database for storing information collected by the collector modules; a series of correlator modules for automatically determining relationships between data objects stored in the database to build application models of individual applications in the context of business process and IT service delivery. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295634 | System and Method for Dynamic Optimal Resource Constraint Mapping in Business Process Models - Electronic communication has made it increasingly easier for large companies, such as those with thousands, even tens of thousands, of workers and/or consultants, to maintain steady streams of workflow across scattered offices and locations. In such a context, there is broadly contemplated herein business process modelling comprising the receipt of multiple business process models and resource constraints for each of the models. The models and constraints are then consolidated to more fully optimize business process modelling. Additional resource constraints governing goals of the business unit or organization are also received in embodiments of the invention, as well as resource registry information, (e.g., LDAP information) in addition to resource information such as resource availability and cost, etc. In embodiments of the invention, historical resource-to-task mapping is also assimilated as well as performance characteristics of resources. In other embodiments, dynamic changes to resource information are also considered for resource assignment. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295635 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING POWER SOURCES AND JOBS IN AN INTEGRATED POWER SYSTEM - Methods and systems for managing energy sources and energy consumers in an integrated system are provided. Certain subject matter presented herein relates to automatically scheduling jobs and their sub-tasks to maximize profit by comparing power source configurations and determining the best job schedule for the power source configurations. This system broadly involves two sub-problems: determining the best power source configuration and determining the best job schedule for the given power source configuration. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295636 | AUTONOMOUS MACHINE SELECTIVE CONSULTATION - The different illustrative embodiments provide a system for selective consultation comprising a number of autonomous machines and a selective consultation system. The number of autonomous machines is configured to perform area coverage tasks in a worksite. The selective consultation system is configured to resolve issues encountered during operation of the number of autonomous machines in the worksite. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295637 | Method for Assisting a User in Obtaining a Repair Service at the User's House or Building - A service bureau system and method for assisting a user in retaining a service from a service provider selected from a plurality of service providers providing a plurality of different services. The system includes a receiving module receiving a service request from the user and identifying the user. The system also includes a service representative module having an input receiving an instruction from a service representative. The instruction includes a selection of one of the plurality of service providers. The system further includes a communication module establishing a communication between the service representative and the user responsive to receiving the user service request. The system also includes a scheduling module scheduling the selected service provider to provide the requested service. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295638 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKORDER MANAGEMENT - A system and method for managing workorders from a single location is provided. The system includes functionality to create workorders, to transmit workorders to equipment at a job site, e.g., an agricultural field, and to log the results of a completed workorder. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295639 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC SCHEDULING OF A WORKFORCE - Systems and methods are disclosed for scheduling a workforce. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: collecting an agent activity of a first class and an agent activity of a second class; and displaying the agent activity of the first class and the agent activity of the second class along the same timeline axis. The agent activities are collected from a contact center data source. The second class is different from the first class. Both activities are associated with the same agent. Each activity is derived from a different virtual data source. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295640 | System and method for instant scheduling of resources among multiple parties with real-time confirmation - A schedule generating processor-implemented method is provided, whereby the method includes determining a plurality of resources for scheduling an event and extracting, from either one or more processor devices, manually entered data, or from a memory device, scheduling information corresponding to each of the determined plurality of resources. A list of available appointment time-slots are generated based on the extracted scheduling information corresponding to each of the selected plurality of resources. One or more scheduling time-slots are then generated from one or more overlapping time slots associated with the list of available appointment time-slots, whereby the generated one or more scheduling time-slots each include a start-time and an end-time determined from any adjacent overlapping appointment time-slots from among the generated list of available appointment time-slots. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295641 | FREEFORM COMMUNICATION IN CALENDARING SYSTEM - A method of sharing a calendar between a plurality of users, the calendar being capable of holding one or more events. The method comprises providing the calendar to each of said plurality of users; allowing any of said plurality of users to add to the calendar any of a new event, a change to an event and a message relating to an event; and providing any new event, change to an event or message added by a user to the other users. A change to an event may comprise a change to at least one of a start time of the event, an end time of the event, a description of the event, a status of the event, whether the event is to be repeated and the persons attending the event. At least one of an identification of a user who made a change, a time at which a change was made, a description of a change, a user comment relating to a change and an identification of the event before the change may be displayed for a selected event. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295642 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH CAPABILITY FOR HANDLING CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF MEETING REQUESTS - Interacting digitally communicating devices cooperate to schedule future meetings include a capability to handle conditional acceptance of meeting requests. For example, a conditional acceptance may be subject to Boolean logic functions of the acceptance status(es) of other meeting invitees (e.g., the condition that another specific one or more invitees also accept the meeting request). | 2011-12-01 |
20110295643 | ACCELERATED PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FRAMEWORK - The present invention relates to a method and related system for assisting and expediting an organization production of a more mature product. The method and system may include implementation of processes using a combination of both electronic hardware and software and implementation locally or over a network such as an intranet or the Internet. In another embodiment, the method may be implemented using a document management system to administer files related to the steps in the method. These files may assist a user in the creation of required documentation. A document management tool may be integrated with the document management system to associate documentation with steps in the method. A navigator tool may be employed to create a graphical display of the steps in the method using data contained in the files. Another embodiment of the present invention uses WebDAV-based communication to coordinate access to multiple document repositories. | 2011-12-01 |
20110295644 | System And Method For Process Management In A Materials Handling Facility - Various embodiments of a system and method for process management in a materials handling facility are described. Embodiments may include a process control component configured to generate a model of multiple unit handling processes of a materials handling facility. For each process, the model may indicate a measured throughput rate. The process control component may be configured to, based on at least one target output rate that is a goal for the output rate of a given unit handling process, evaluate the model to generate a particular target throughput rate that is a goal for the respective throughput rate of a particular unit handling process that is performed prior to the given unit handling process. The process control component may be configured to, based on the particular target throughput rate, generate one or more instructions to control the respective throughput rate of units processed by the particular unit handling process. | 2011-12-01 |