51st week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110313701 | ROTATING MACHINE SHAFT SIGNAL MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM - This invention relates to a method of and system for monitoring shaft signals associated with a shaft of a rotating machine. The method comprising receiving voltage signals associated with the shaft; receiving current signals associated with the shaft; determining, from the received voltage and current signals, voltage and current data relating to the machine; presenting at least some of the determined voltage and current data to a user; trending at least the determined voltage data to at least determine voltage data trends associated with the machine; and determining from the voltage and current data if a fault condition has occurred and generating an alarm signal or condition in response thereto. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313702 | SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A spectral measurement device includes: an optical band-pass filter section that has first to n-th wavelengths (n is an integer of 2 or more) having a predetermined wavelength width as a spectral band thereof; a correction operation section that corrects a reception signal based on an output optical signal from the optical band-pass filter section; and a signal processing section that executes predetermined signal processing based on the reception signal corrected by the correction operation section that corrects the reception signal based on the change in the spectral distribution of the reception signal. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313703 | INERTIAL MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND AN AIRCRAFT INCLUDING SUCH A DEVICE - The present invention relates to an inertial measurement device secured to a structure of a vehicle for which it is desired to measure speeds and/or accelerations, the device comprising at least one piece of moving equipment in rotation about a stationary axis of rotation Y relative to the structure, said moving equipment including at least two measurement means having respective sensitivity axes X′ and Z′ that are mutually orthogonal and that lie in a plane perpendicular to the stationary axis of rotation Y, a motor for driving the moving equipment in rotation, means for determining the angular position of the moving equipment, means for responding to the angular position of the moving equipment to determine the projection of the measurements taken in the rotary frame of reference axes X′ and Z′ by the said at least two measurement means onto a vehicle frame of reference X and Z. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313704 | PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR - A pressure detector detecting a pressure of cold or hot water; a temperature detector detecting a temperature of a pressure sensor; correcting equation storage storing, cold water correcting equation information applied when the temperature detected by the temperature detector is included in a cold water temperature range, and hot water correcting equation information applied when the temperature detected by the temperature detector is included in a hot water temperature range; a temperature range determiner determining the temperature range that includes the temperature detected by the temperature detector as either a cold water temperature range or a hot water temperature range; and a correction calculating portion using the correcting equation corresponding to the temperature range determined by the temperature range determiner correcting the detection signal by the pressure detector, and outputting the post-correction signal as a measurement signal. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313705 | GAIT MONITOR - Vertical centre of mass movement measuring apparatus comprising an inertial sensing device, for producing outputs relating to rotation and acceleration in its local frame of reference and configured for fastening to the back of an animal, preferably a person, a memory and a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to provide a quaternion corresponding to the rotation of the inertial sensing device and a first acceleration, both based on an output of the rotation sensing device, and the processor is programmed to combine the quaternion and the first acceleration and based on the result of the combination to provide, when the device is fastened close enough to the centre of mass of a moving object such as a person, an estimate of vertical displacement, or a derivative of vertical displacement, of the centre of mass in a global reference frame. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313706 | INDUSTRIAL MACHINE - According to an exemplary embodiment, an industrial machine includes: a movement mechanism configured to move along a specific axis direction; a controller configured to control the movement mechanism; and an angle detector configured to detect an angle of the movement mechanism about an axis perpendicular to the specific axis direction. The controller comprises: an angular error acquisition section configured to acquire angular errors of the movement mechanism for respective positions of the movement mechanism based on the angle detected when the movement mechanism is moved; a parameter generator configured to generate respective straightness correction parameters for correcting straightness errors of the movement mechanism in the specific axis direction by integrating the angular errors at the respective positions of the movement mechanism; and a correction section configured to correct movement errors of the movement mechanism based on the straightness correction parameters. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313707 | CORRECTING IN-LINE SPECTROPHOTOMETER MEASUREMENTS IN THE PRESENCE OF A BANDING DEFECT - What is disclosed is a novel system and method for detecting and correcting for In-Line-Spectrophotometer (ILS) measurements of constant value patches in the presence of banding in multi-function document reproduction systems. The present system analyzes the ILS data stream to identify structured noise components due to banding. An FFT is performed on each L*a*b* component in the ILS stream for a single test page. The peak frequencies from the FFT of the L* a* and b* channels are compared. Common frequencies in all 3 channels indicate a banding component. Once the banding frequencies and the banding wavelength are known, the color patch target can be adjusted to ensure the color patches are synchronized to the banding wavelength. By running a series of synchronized patches and averaging results, structured noise can be eliminated. In such a manner, a reduction of banding effects on color calibration can be effectuated. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313708 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING DEVICES WITH FLEX CIRCUITS AND RADIO-FREQUENCY CABLES - A flex circuit may have test structures and antenna structures. The test structures may include test capacitors and transmission lines. The performance of the test structures may be measured using test equipment. Pass/fail criteria may be applied to the flex circuit based on the measured values. If the flex circuit is a failing circuit, flex circuit manufacturing settings may be adjusted. The performance of a radio-frequency (RF) cable may also be measured using the test equipment. Sample portions of the RF cable may be obtained and measured. Pass/fail criteria may be applied to the RF cable based on measured cable loss values. If the RF cable is a failing cable, RF cable manufacturing settings may be adjusted. Antenna structures associated with passing flex circuits and RF cable segments associated with passing sample RF cable segments may be incorporated into a wireless device during production device assembly. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313709 | POWER CIRCUIT ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - A power circuit analysis apparatus includes a segmentation unit that segments an analysis target region in a power circuit included in an analysis target circuit into a plurality of segmented regions, and an analysis unit that outputs an analysis result of the power circuit with respect to each of the plurality of segmented regions on a basis of a consumption current value in the segmented region and a number of via holes formed in each interlayer connecting power line wirings in upper and lower layers to each other in the segmented region. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313710 | Simultaneous Testing of Semiconductor Components on a Wafer - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to simultaneously, wirelessly test semiconductor components formed on a semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor components transmit respective outcomes of a self-contained testing operation to wireless automatic test equipment via a common communication channel. Multiple receiving antennas observe the outcomes from multiple directions in three dimensional space. The wireless automatic test equipment determines whether one or more of the semiconductor components operate as expected and, optionally, may use properties of the three dimensional space to determine a location of one or more of the semiconductor components. The wireless testing equipment may additionally determine performance of the semiconductor components by detecting infrared energy emitted, transmitted, and/or reflected by the semiconductor wafer before, during, and/or after a self-contained testing operation. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313711 | Identifying Defective Semiconductor Components on a Wafer Using Component Triangulation - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to simultaneously, wirelessly test semiconductor components formed on a semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor components transmit respective outcomes of a self-contained testing operation to wireless automatic test equipment via a common communication channel. Multiple receiving antennas observe the outcomes from multiple directions in three dimensional space. The wireless automatic test equipment determines whether one or more of the semiconductor components operate as expected and, optionally, may use properties of the three dimensional space to determine a location of one or more of the semiconductor components. The wireless testing equipment may additionally determine performance of the semiconductor components by detecting infrared energy emitted, transmitted, and/or reflected by the semiconductor wafer before, during, and/or after a self-contained testing operation. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313712 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF FLUID PROPERTIES IN A POROUS MEDIUM - A method for a fluid parameters determination in a porous medium includes phase transition temperature measurement of the fluid in question in the free space, saturation of the porous medium of the known pore space geometry with the fluid in question, measurement of the phase transition temperature of the fluid in question in the particular porous material and calculation of the wetting angle or interface tension of the fluid between the liquid and solid phases of the fluid in the porous medium. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313713 | DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY AND CALIBRATION METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - Certain embodiments herein are directed to a differential scanning calorimeter comprising a sample holder thermally coupled to a first furnace, a reference holder thermally coupled to a second furnace, and a processor electrically coupled to the first furnace and the second furnace, the processor configured to receive data during a scan of a sample to provide a heat flow trace and further configured to subtract a calculated baseline from the heat flow trace, the calculated baseline comprising the sum of an isothermal baseline function, a scanning baseline function and a transient baseline function. Calibration methods are also described. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313714 | Determining Postural Stability - A method for determining postural stability of a person can include acquiring a plurality of pressure data points over a period of time from at least one pressure sensor. The method can also include the step of identifying a postural state for each pressure data point to generate a plurality of postural states. The method can include the step of determining a postural state of the person at a point in time based on at least the plurality of postural states. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313715 | MULTI CHANNEL ELECTRONIC ACCELERATION SWITCH - An electronic acceleration switch, such as for arming and firing a squib, for instance used in arming a warhead, safe missile air, ground and sea launch separation arming, includes multiple redundancies to provide a fail-safe system that does not have a single-point failure. The switch includes different channels, each of which includes a power subsystem, multiple accelerometers, a pair of controllers, and a switching circuit. The power subsystems of the two channels provide power to multiple accelerometers of each channel. The accelerometers of each channel may include a mix of digital and analog accelerometers. The acceleration sensors can be either one-axis or three-axis sensors. The accelerometers are connected to the controllers of both channels. The controllers provide redundancy for each channel. In addition, the controllers include voting logic that receives inputs from the accelerometers, and determines whether to send arm and enable signals to the multiple squib drivers. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313716 | INTERTIAL TRACKING SYSTEM WITH PROVISION FOR POSITION CORRECTION - A subject location tracking process is provided that includes the attachment of a system to a subject where the system includes a radiofrequency sensor integration module, an inertial tracking module, and a microprocessor. Radiofrequency signals are communicated from the radiofrequency sensor integration module to a remote radiofrequency transceiver beacon. A measured range is determined between the radiofrequency sensory integration module and the beacon. An error value E is then computed between the measured range and a predicted range. The predicted range is computed from the inertial tracking module alone based on positional data as to location and orientation of the system. The location data of the subject is determined with a microprocessor and displayed at the location. The present invention operates to provide a high degree of accuracy as to the position of a subject in spite of intermediate obstructions and without reliance on global position satellite systems, fixed reference signals, or line of sight. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313717 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SPEED DETECTION IN AN AC INDUCTION MACHINE - A system and method for determining rotor speed of an AC induction machine is disclosed. The system is programmed to estimate a rotor speed of the induction machine according to a linear speed estimation algorithm and based on name plate information (NPI) of the induction machine and parameters of the AC induction machine during operation thereof. The rotor speed estimation system is also programmed to estimate a rotor speed of the AC induction machine according to a frequency-domain signal processing algorithm and determine if the rotor speed estimated thereby is valid. If the rotor speed estimated by the frequency-domain signal processing algorithm is valid, then a tuned rotor speed of the AC induction machine is estimated according to the linear speed estimation algorithm and based, in part, on the rotor speed estimated by the frequency-domain signal processing algorithm. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313718 | Construction Modulus Testing Apparatus and Method - A system and method of determining lift deflection during construction of aggregate columns allows for real time monitoring of construction to ensure meeting defined parameters. The amount of deflection of a tamper head during tamping is determined multiple times for each lift. When the amount of deflection matches a predetermined value, tamping is stopped. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313719 | BELT-TYPE CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION - A belt-type continuously variable transmission that is able, using a simple structure, to accommodate size reduction and to accurately determine an actual transmission ratio. A belt-type continuously variable transmission includes a measurement surface formed on an outer circumferential end of a movable sheave, and a displacement sensor provided isolatedly from the outer circumferential end for measuring the distance between the measurement surface and the displacement sensor. The measurement surface is formed such that the distance H between the measurement surface and the displacement sensor is changed as the movable sheave moves in the axial direction. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313720 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS MODELING OF THREADED CONNECTIONS - A method for improving finite element analysis of threaded connections includes selecting at least one thread parameter for a female connection and a corresponding male connection. In two dimensions a thread form is calculated for the female connection and the male connection based on the at least one parameter. In two dimensions a geometry is calculated of the female connection and the male connection based on the thread form. In two dimensions the female connection and the male connection are segmented into predefined areas. A finite element analysis mesh is calculated based on a predetermined number of nodes for each of the predefined areas and a selected number of mesh layers for each predefined area. The two dimensional female connection and male connection are assembled. The two dimensional mesh on the assembled connections is used as input to a finite element analysis of the threaded connection in three dimensions. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313721 | CONTOUR SENSOR INCORPORATING MEMS MIRRORS - A structured light sensor system for measuring contour of a surface includes a control module that coordinates control of both a projection system and an imaging system to operate the structured light sensor system in three different modes. The imaging system is configured to selectively capture an image of light reflected off of the surface. In point mode, the imaging system is on for a first period during which the projection system projects a point of light onto the surface. In line mode, the imaging system is on for a second period during which the projection system projects onto the surface a first plurality of points of light forming a line of light. In area mode, the imaging system is on for a third period during which the projection system projects onto the surface a second plurality of points of light forming a plurality of lines of light. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313722 | RETURN PULSE SHAPE ANALYSIS FOR FALLING EDGE OBJECT DISCRIMINATION OF AEROSOL LIDAR - A LIDAR optical remote sensing system and method analyzes the falling edge profile of a return LIDAR signal that may be indicative of an object or an aerosol cloud, which is generally more diffuse. Using the falling edge profile permits burnthrough to an object that may be obscured by the aerosol cloud. The profile is compared against at least one threshold that may correspond, in various embodiments, to a negative slope of the falling edge, an integrated power under the falling edge, or a range estimate error for varying transmitted power values, varying transmitted pulse lengths and/or varying receiver detector field of view values. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313723 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SAVING POWER IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for reducing power consumption are provided. In a method for a pedometer function in a portable terminal, when acceleration determination data is less than a threshold, an acceleration determination data loading frequency is lowered to a lower limit frequency. Acceleration determination data are loaded according to the lower limit frequency. When the acceleration determination data loaded according to the lower limit frequency is equal to or greater than the threshold, an acceleration determination data loading frequency is raised to a determination frequency. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313724 | MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - A measurement device system and method of using the same for determining the depth of a pile being installed and/or the equipment used to install the pile. The device including an encoder assembly having a support attachable to a structural component of a rig wherein the support has a pivot joint coaxial with a load arm axis. The encoder assembly has a load arm rotatable about the arm axis and with a wheel near its distal end that is rotatable about a wheel axis with an encoder joined to the wheel that moves with the wheel. The encoder assembly further including a biasing assembly to urge the load arm and wheel into an engaged condition relative to the associated pile installation machine such that the wheel frictionally engages a surface of another structural component of the rig. Thus, the displacement of the first structural component relative to the second component rotates the wheel about the wheel axis and the encoder. This information can then be used to determine pile depth. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313725 | FLUORESCENCE DETECTING DEVICE AND FLUORESCENCE DETECTING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a fluorescence detecting device intended to improve the measurement accuracy of a fluorescence relaxation time. The fluorescence detecting device includes a laser light source unit that irradiates a measurement object with laser light, a light-receiving unit that outputs a fluorescent signal of fluorescence emitted by the measurement object irradiated with the laser light, a light source control unit that generates a modulation signal for time-modulating an intensity of the laser light emitted from the laser light source unit by at least two frequency components, and a processing unit that determines a fluorescence relaxation time of the fluorescence emitted by the measurement object by using the fluorescent signal outputted by the light-receiving unit and the modulation signal, wherein the processing unit determines phase delays of the fluorescent signal with respect to the modulation signal at the at least two frequency components, and determines a fluorescence relaxation time at each of the frequency components by using the phase delay, and determines an average fluorescence relaxation time by weighted averaging of the fluorescence relaxation times. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313726 | CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR WIND TURBINES - A condition-based maintenance system having instrumentation for collecting data from one or more wind turbines and having a performance monitor for analyzing the data. Also, the system may have a wind turbine anomaly detector. Information from the performance monitor and the anomaly detector may be used for indicating conditions of the one or more wind turbines. These conditions may be a basis for determining maintenance recommended for any of the wind turbines. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313727 | DATA CENTER PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE THRESHOLD ANALYSIS - Analyzing one or more physical infrastructure elements of a data center by generating a plurality of outputs from a stochastic process for a set of inputs to the stochastic process. The inputs comprise one or more inputs of certainty and one or more inputs of uncertainty. A statistical output analysis of the outputs is utilized to generate one or more threshold reaching projections for each of the physical infrastructure elements of the data center. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313728 | Fuel-Injector-Replacement Determining Device - A fuel-injector-replacement device obtains a learning value of characteristic data of an injector while an engine is running. The learning value stored in an ECU is updated into the learning value. When the engine is stopped, the characteristic data stored in an INJ-EEPROM are updated into the characteristic data stored in the ECU. When the engine is started, it is determined whether the characteristic data stored in the ECU agrees with the characteristic data stored in the INJ-EEPROM. When these data do not agree with each other, it is determined that the fuel-injector is improperly replaced without updating the characteristic data stored in the ECU. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313729 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERFORMANCE TESTING INFORMATION TO USERS - A computer system includes server computers, application program storage modules, a communication network, client computers, a database storage module, and a test data presentation module. The database storage module stores event data. The event data logs events that occur in the server computers during performance test runs. The test runs are performed in connection with a plurality of projects. The projects are defined for performance testing the application programs. The test data presentation module generates a test data screen display for rendering by one of the client computers. The test data screen display includes a data table. The data table presents event data relating to events that occurred during test runs for two or more of the projects. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313730 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ADAPTIVELY RECORD DATA - A recording unit includes one or more signal sensors and a recording controller. The recording controller is configured to execute a first recording instruction to record first data received from the one or more signal sensors. The first data is recorded according to first recording rules that specify a first value of a parameter. The recording controller is also configured to, in response to an irregularity detected in the first data, execute a second recording instruction to record second data received from the one or more signal sensors. The second data is recorded according to second recording rules that specify a second value of the parameter, where the second value differs from the first value. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313731 | PRESSURE SENSING SYSTEMS FOR SPORTS, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A system determines athletic performance. A pressure sensor senses change in elevation. A microprocessor processes signals from the pressure sensor to determine speed corresponding to the change in elevation. A display reports the speed to a user. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313732 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE SPATIALLY RESOLVED MEASUREMENT OF A PHYSICAL VARIABLE - A device for spatially resolved measuring of a physical variable has a device for generating a first electrical signal with a first frequency and a device for generating a second electrical signal with a second frequency. The second frequency differs from the first frequency by a difference frequency. An optical radiation source generates an optical signal modulated by the first frequency. The optical signal can interact with a test object and be modified in the process. A mixer can mix an electrical signal emerging from the optical signal with the second signal. A device, particularly embodied as a DDS system, generates a third electrical signal with a third frequency that corresponds to the difference frequency or a multiple of the difference frequency. A digital/analog converter digitizes the at least one mixed signal by sampling the mixed signal at the third frequency in order to digitize it. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313733 | Contact defining device, contact defining method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium - A contact defining device includes: a component moving unit that moves a component represented by data of a surface region in a 3D model in a predetermined direction; an overlap determination unit that determines whether or not the surface region of the component moved by the component moving unit includes an overlapping area that overlaps the surface region of another component; and a contact defining unit that, when a determination is made by the overlap determination unit that the surface region of the component includes the overlapping area that overlaps the surface region of another component, defines the overlapping area as a contact area with the another component. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313734 | Model Assembly of a Production Plant With True-To-Scale Models of Production Devices and Method for Inputting a Spatial Assembly of Production Devices Into a Computer-Assisted Planning Program - In a method for factory planning and a model assembly ( | 2011-12-22 |
20110313735 | CIRCUIT DEVICE RELIABILITY SIMULATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides systems for predicting semiconductor reliability. In an embodiment a method for predicting the semiconductor reliability includes receiving a degradation parameter input of a semiconductor device and using a degradation equation to determine a plurality of bias dependent slope values for degradation over a short time period according to the degradation parameter input. The plurality of slope values include at least two different slope values for degradation over time. The system accumulates the plurality of slope values and projects the accumulated slope values over a long time period to determine a stress effect for the semiconductor device. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313736 | Method and Algorithm for Modeling and Simulating A Discrete-Event Dynamic System - A method for modeling, visualizing and simulating a large-scale discrete-event dynamic system, comprising the steps of expressing an algorithm that models a plurality of activity interactions, determining a plurality of possible relationships between a plurality of system elements including transient entities, resident entities, or both, providing a hierarchical mapping of the plurality of system elements and the plurality of possible relationships among the plurality of system elements, representing a relationship diagram as a graph notation where an activity or a system element is visualized as a node and the plurality of possible relationships among the activity or the system element as an arc, allowing an explicit description of the plurality of possible relationships among the activity or the system element and a plurality of possible ways in which the activity can begin and a sequence of activities, and representing an activity interaction matrix that categorizes the plurality of activity interactions. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313737 | MEHTOD OF DETERMINING PARAMETER FROM SPARSE MEASUREMENT DATA - A method of simultaneously determining multiple parameters or a parameter distribution characterizing material properties of a volume under investigation using an inversion process of sparse measurements is described including the step of defining an initial model of the volume and modifying the initial model by matching the multiple parameters or parameter distribution with the measurements using alternatingly an iterative inversion method and a probabilistic inversion method, and determining the multiple parameters or parameter distribution after one or more iterations of the alternating inversions. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313738 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CIRCUIT ANALYSIS - Systems and methods related to fast simulation of power supply networks and identification of a set of extrema (e.g., maxima or minima) waveforms associated with the power supply networks. In accordance with an embodiment, a method is provided for estimating the worst case voltage drop on the power delivery network of a circuit, comprising selecting a model of a power delivery network of a circuit, simulating the circuit over a predefined number of vectors, collecting dynamic voltage waveforms at each of a plurality of points on the power delivery network, calculating a dynamic worst case voltage waveform at each of the plurality of points, and reporting the dynamic worst case voltage waveform along with an associated confidence interval. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313739 | HYBRID MODELS OF MULTI-COMPONENT VAPOR LIQUID SEPARATION EQUIPMENT - Four different forms of hybrid models of vapor-liquid separation equipment. These are: (i) hybrid models for monitoring the equipment operation based on the plant operating data, (ii) a predictive hybrid model which computes product properties if feed properties are known (iii) a predictive hybrid model which can compute product qualities from the flows entering or leaving the tower without having to know the feed properties, and (iv) a feed properties identification hybrid model. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313740 | VEHICLE BEHAVIOR ESTIMATION DEVICE - A vehicle behavior estimation device includes: a storage unit configured to store a restriction condition at a point of a vehicle for which behavior is estimated; vehicle state data that includes position information and speed information of the vehicle; behavior parameters that include speed information and acceleration information of the vehicle; and physical restriction conditions that include an upper limit and a lower limit of the acceleration information; and a processor configured to obtain the vehicle state data by using the restriction condition at the point; calculate behavior parameters of a vehicle model that satisfy a physical restriction condition from the vehicle state data and the restriction condition at the point; update the vehicle state data of the vehicle model based on the behavior parameters; and repeat processing to calculate behavior parameters by using the updated vehicle state data and to update the vehicle state data. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313741 | METHODOLOGY AND ITS COMPUTATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION FOR QUANTITATIVE FIRST-PRINCIPLES QUANTUM-MECHANICAL PREDICTIONS OF THE STRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER - Exact application of the well-known laws of non-relativistic quantum mechanics to the structures and properties of matter leads to equations that are generally too complicated to be soluble. Provided herein are practical methods to overcome these complications in making quantitatively accurate first-principles quantum-mechanical predictions of the structures and properties of forms of matter which are important in a broad range of scientific and technological disciplines. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313742 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING ARTICLE MADE OF VISCOELASTIC MATERIAL - A method for computerized simulation of an article made of a viscoelastic material comprises the steps of: defining a value of a viscoelastic property for each element of an article model; and making a deformation simulation of the article model; and the following steps (i)-(iii) are carried out at least once: (i) obtaining a strain amount of each of the elements from the deformation simulation; (ii) renewing the values of the viscoelastic property according to the obtained strain amounts so as to redefine the article model; (iii) again making the deformation simulation on the redefined article model. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313743 | Method of Improving the Production of a Mature Gas or Oil Field - A method of improving the production of a mature gas or oil field, the field comprising a plurality of existing wells, the method comprising the steps of providing a field simulator capable of predicting a production of the field in function of a given scenario, a scenario being a set of data comprising production parameters of the existing wells and, the case may be, location and production parameters of one or more new wells, determining drainage areas of the existing wells using the field simulator, determining locations of candidate new wells such that drainage areas of the candidate new wells, determined using the field simulator, do not overlap with the drainage areas of the existing wells, optimizing the value of a gain function which depends on the field production by determining a set of wells out of a plurality of sets of wells, which optimize the value of said gain function, each set of wells of said plurality of sets of wells comprising the existing wells and new wells selected among the candidate new wells. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313744 | Production Simulator for Simulating a Mature Hydrocarbon Field - A production simulator ( | 2011-12-22 |
20110313745 | Machine, Program Product, and Computer-Implemented Method to Simulate Reservoirs as 2.5D Unstructured Grids - Example embodiments utilize machines to model reservoir geometry having geological layers as 2.5D unstructured grids. Example embodiments include program products to simulate a reservoir by generating a reservoir data system, performing a numerical fluid flow simulation, and visualizing the simulation. Data system embodiments include data structures to model a reservoir geometry as laterally unstructured two-dimensional (2D) grids and associated layer depths defining z-lines to thereby define a 2.5D unstructured grid, including datasets for: vertices of the grid cells for the future grid top and bottom surfaces, a number and listing of vertices for each grid cell, cell center coordinates, and vertex adjacency information using a compressed sparse row format. Computer-implemented methods include projecting external and internal boundaries onto a future grid surface; generating 2D unstructured, e.g., Voronoi, grids, for the top and bottom surfaces; and generating z-lines of depths corresponding to reservoir layers to thereby generate 2.5D unstructured grids. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313746 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A PROCESSED VIRTUAL ANALYSIS PLATE - The invention relates to a method that includes the following steps:
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20110313747 | Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD)-Based Virtual Fabrication - A single finite element mesh is generated for predicting performance of an integrated circuit design. A plurality of sample points are identified for conducting a variability study on at least one parameter associated with the integrated circuit design. The sample points are selected to predict performance of the integrated circuit design when subject to variations in the at least one parameter due to variations in manufacturing processes to be used to manufacture the integrated circuit design. A parameterized netlist is generated corresponding to each of the sample points. A technology computer aided design (TCAD, e.g., finite element) simulation is run for each of the parameterized netlists, using the single finite element mesh for each of the parameterized netlists, until convergence is achieved, to obtain, for each of the parameterized netlists, at least one metric indicative of the performance of the integrated circuit design. A predicted design yield is developed for the integrated circuit design, based on the at least one metric determined for each of the parameterized netlists. In at least some instances, an importance sampling technique is tightly integrated with the TCAD process. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313748 | METHOD OF SIMULATION AND DESIGN OF A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The invention relates to a method of simulation of semiconductor devices, such as wide-bandgap devices. The method employs a device substitution technique and involves simulation of a device which is structurally similar to the target device, and for which it is relatively easy to compute a model. Such a device may have a reduced material bandgap or a different doping/fixed-charge concentration. Based on the model of the simplified device, a model of the device under consideration is produced via a sequence of simulation steps, wherein simulated intermediate devices eventually transform into the target device for which a model is sought. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313749 | CIRCUIT CONSTANT ANALYSIS METHOD AND CIRCUIT SIMULATION METHOD OF EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL OF MULTILAYER CHIP INDUCTOR - The occurrence of errors between circuit design using a circuit simulator and the actual circuit performance is quite adequately suppressed. Mutual inductance (Lm) between direct current inductance (L | 2011-12-22 |
20110313750 | REQUIREMENTS MODEL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS METHOD FOR EFFORT ESTIMATION IN CUSTOMING A NETWORK MONITORING AND CONTROL - A method, including: receiving, at a processing device, an input, wherein the input includes a first model of data flows between a proposed Network Monitoring and Control (NMC) unit and devices connected to the proposed NMC unit, wherein the first model is based on a Request for Proposal (RFP) and the data flows are defined by data types and primitives conforming to a modeling formalism; and comparing, by using the processing device, the first model with a second model, wherein the second model is a model of data flows between a previously developed NMC unit and devices connected to the previously developed NMC unit, wherein the second model is based on a prior RFP and the data flows are defined by data types and primitives conforming to the modeling formalism, wherein the comparison identifies differences between the data flows of the first and second models. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313751 | Providing Compartmentalized Security in Product Reviews - A mechanism is provided for providing compartmentalized security in product reviews. A central authoritative state module within a compartmentalized security mechanism identifies a clearance level associated with a user that has been authenticated. Responsive to the clearance level of the user being sufficient to access the information, the central authoritative state module determines whether the information requires a simulation to be executed. Responsive to the information failing to require execution of a simulation, a coordination module in the compartmentalized security mechanism retrieves the information. A display and input interaction module on a client system then displays the information in accordance with the clearance level of the user thereby forming displayed information. Displaying the information in accordance with the clearance level of the user comprises displaying in detail only portions of the information of the product that the user has access to. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313752 | ELECTRONIC DATA STORE - An apparatus and method of providing conditional access to an electronic data store including a storage controller and a data storage resource. The method includes receiving, at the storage controller, a network request for access to the data storage resource from a client, the request including at least one required parameter defining the requested connection, obtaining information on the performance of the data storage resource, determining, based upon the information, whether a) the data storage resource can meet the or each required parameter of the request; and b) meeting the or each required parameter of the request will not violate any previously agreed parameters defining existing connections on the data storage resource; and denying the request if at least one of a) and b) are determined to be negative. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313753 | Multicast emulation - Systems and methods for emulating the reception of a multicast message considering simulated host channel characteristics. Methods, according to various embodiments, may comprise executing a plurality of host applications subscribing to a first multicast group address. The methods may also comprise executing a plurality of sockets. The methods may also comprise receiving a data packet indicating the first multicast group address. The data packet may be modified according to a first channel impairment condition to generate a first impaired data packet, which may be directed to a first host application selected from the plurality of host applications via a first socket selected from the plurality of sockets. The first socket may correspond to the first host. The data packet may be modified according to a second channel impairment condition to generate a second impaired data packet directed to a second host application via a second socket. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313754 | LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF SELECTED CONTENT IN A WEB CONFERENCE - A method for translating selected content in a web conference may include receiving, by a processing device, a selected area in an image from a shared application in a web conference. The selected area may contain text for translation into a chosen language. The method may also include performing an optical character recognition process on the text in the selected area of the image to provide OCR resulting text. The method may additionally include translating the OCR resulting text into the chosen language. The method may further include presenting the translated OCR resulting text in the chosen language to at least a translation requester in the web conference. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313755 | MULTILANGUAGE WEB PAGE TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING A MULTILANGUAGE WEB PAGE AND PROVIDING THE TRANSLATED WEB PAGE - A system and method for translating a multilingual web page are provided. The method includes receiving an attempt of a user to access a specific web site through the Internet, grasping in which country a language registered by a user, a language used in an area corresponding to the IP address of the user, a language selected by the user, and a language input by the user are used, and, when a used language is different from a language in which an original text provided by the web page of the web site is written, replacing a translation in which the original text is translated into the language used by the user by the original text of the web page to provide the translation. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313756 | Text sizer (TM) - This invention called Text Sizer ™ is an innovative method and system for changing the length of a body of text. It may be embodied in the following steps. First, a first text segment may be selected in a body of text. Second, alternative text segments are automatically identified, wherein each alternative text segment may be substituted for the first text segment in the body of text without causing a grammatical error. Third, a second text segment with a length that is different than the length of the first text segment is selected from among the alternative text segments. Finally, the second text segment is substituted for the first text segment in the body of text. This method has many applications. One might wish to reduce the length of a body of text so that it fits within a constrained space. For example, a report or proposal may have page limits. Alternatively, one might wish to expand the length of selected portion of a body of text. For example, one might wish to elaborate or include additional information on topics covered in a particular segment of text. Text Sizer ™ provides users with this capability. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313757 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVANCED GRAMMAR CHECKING - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a method of grammar checking, comprising providing a first level of grammar checking through a computer-based grammar checking facility to grammar check a body of text provided by a source in order to improve the grammatical correctness of the text; providing an excerpt of the body of text containing an identified grammatical error as a result of the first level of automated grammar checking to a second level of human augmented grammar checking consisting of at least one human proofreader for review; incorporating the results of the human proofreader review to contribute to an at least one corrected version of the provided body of text; and sending the at least one corrected version back the source. The method of grammar checking may provide for automatic grammar correction and text enrichment, such as when text is entered via a computer device with input limitations. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313758 | Method and Arrangement for Processing of Speech Quality Estimate - Method and arrangement for processing of a speech quality estimate, which involve adaption of a speech quality estimate based on information related to the bandwidth of a reference signal used when determining said speech quality estimate, such that the adapted speech quality estimate is independent of the bandwidth of the reference signal. The method and arrangement enable objective speech quality measurements or assessments to be performed on a unified bandwidth scale, independent of the bandwidth of a reference signal, which allows e.g. a more relevant comparison of communication systems and/or equipment, such as e.g. codecs. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313759 | Method for changing the caller voice during conversation in voice communication device - The invention relates to a cellular phone terminal system and in particular to a method for changing caller's voice of speech signal during conversation. The cellular phone terminal system has a filter for filtering signal. The method comprises the steps of: waiting for a caller voice selector key input for a desired caller voice when a caller voice converter key is pressed during conversation; and setting an even or odd harmonic deletion bins on the frequency domain of the uncompressed speech signal correspondingly to the caller voice selector key input to change caller voice. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313760 | SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION, ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION - The present invention provides a system and method for representing quasi-periodic (“qp”) waveforms comprising, representing a plurality of limited decompositions of the qp waveform, wherein each decomposition includes a first and second amplitude value and at least one time value. In some embodiments, each of the decompositions is phase adjusted such that the arithmetic sum of the plurality of limited decompositions reconstructs the qp waveform. These decompositions are stored into a data structure having a plurality of attributes. Optionally, these attributes are used to reconstruct the qp waveform, or patterns or features of the qp wave can be determined by using various pattern-recognition techniques. Some embodiments provide a system that uses software, embedded hardware or firmware to carry out the above-described method. Some embodiments use a computer-readable medium to store the data structure and/or instructions to execute the method. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313761 | METHOD FOR ENCODING SIGNAL, AND METHOD FOR DECODING SIGNAL - The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, and system for encoding and decoding signals. The encoding method includes: converting a first-domain signal into a second-domain signal; performing Linear Prediction (LP) processing and Long-Term Prediction (LTP) processing for the second-domain signal; obtaining a long-term flag according to decision criteria; obtaining a second-domain contribution signal according to the LP processing result and the LTP processing result when the long-term flag is a first flag; obtaining a second-domain contribution signal according to the LP processing result when the long-term flag is a second flag; converting the second-domain contribution signal into a first-domain contribution signal, and calculating a first-domain predictive residual signal; and outputting a bit stream that includes the first-domain predictive residual signal. With the present disclosure, a subsequent encoding or decoding process is performed adaptively according to the long-term flag; when the long-term flag is the second flag, it is not necessary to consider the LTP processing result, thus improving the compression performance of a codec. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313762 | SPEECH OUTPUT WITH CONFIDENCE INDICATION - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for speech output with confidence indication. The method includes receiving a confidence score for segments of speech or text to be synthesized to speech. The method includes modifying a speech segment by altering one or more parameters of the speech proportionally to the confidence score. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313763 | PICKUP SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a pickup signal processing apparatus includes microphones, a sound determining unit, a signal level calculating unit, a setting unit, and a calculating unit. The sound determining unit determines whether pickup signals picked up by the microphones are signals from a neighboring sound source or a background noise signal. The signal level calculating unit calculates the signal levels for the microphones. The setting unit sets a gain value of at least one microphone and reduces a difference between the signal levels for the microphones on the basis of the signal levels for the microphones, when determined that the pickup signal is the background noise signal. The calculating unit multiplies the pickup signal of the at least one microphone by the gain value set by the setting unit. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313764 | System and Method for Latency Reduction for Automatic Speech Recognition Using Partial Multi-Pass Results - A system and method is provided for reducing latency for automatic speech recognition. In one embodiment, intermediate results produced by multiple search passes are used to update a display of transcribed text. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313765 | Conversational Subjective Quality Test Tool - A method for assessing quality of conversational speech between nodes of a communication network ( | 2011-12-22 |
20110313766 | IDENTIFICATION OF PEOPLE USING MULTIPLE TYPES OF INPUT - Systems and methods for detecting people or speakers in an automated fashion are disclosed. A pool of features including more than one type of input (like audio input and video input) may be identified and used with a learning algorithm to generate a classifier that identifies people or speakers. The resulting classifier may be evaluated to detect people or speakers. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA INTENSIVE LOCAL INFERENCE - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for approximating an accent source. A system practicing the method collects data associated with customer specific services, generates country-specific or dialect-specific weights for each service in the customer specific services list, generates a summary weight based on an aggregation of the country-specific or dialect-specific weights, and sets an interactive voice response system language model based on the summary weight and the country-specific or dialect-specific weights. The interactive voice response system can also change the user interface based on the interactive voice response system language model. The interactive voice response system can tune a voice recognition algorithm based on the summary weight and the country-specific weights. The interactive voice response system can adjust phoneme matching in the language model based on a possibility that the speaker is using other languages. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313768 | COMPOUND GESTURE-SPEECH COMMANDS - A multimedia entertainment system combines both gestures and voice commands to provide an enhanced control scheme. A user's body position or motion may be recognized as a gesture, and may be used to provide context to recognize user generated sounds, such as speech input. Likewise, speech input may be recognized as a voice command, and may be used to provide context to recognize a body position or motion as a gesture. Weights may be assigned to the inputs to facilitate processing. When a gesture is recognized, a limited set of voice commands associated with the recognized gesture are loaded for use. Further, additional sets of voice commands may be structured in a hierarchical manner such that speaking a voice command from one set of voice commands leads to the system loading a next set of voice commands. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313769 | Method and System for Automatically Detecting Morphemes in a Task Classification System Using Lattices - In an embodiment, a lattice of phone strings in an input communication of a user may be recognized, wherein the lattice may represent a distribution over the phone strings. Morphemes in the input communication of the user may be detected using the recognized lattice. Task-type classification decisions may be made based on the detected morphemes in the input communication of the user. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313770 | ELECTRONIC EMERGENCY MESSAGING SYSTEM - An electronic alert apparatus comprises a radio frequency receiver configured to receive and identify an emergency message preamble that indicates an impending transmission of an emergency message sent at a first data rate and an emergency message addressed to a shared device address sent at a second data rate. The electronic alert apparatus also includes a processor operatively connected to the radio frequency receiver and configured to decode the encoded emergency message. A memory is operatively connected to the processor and configured to store the decoded emergency message. A display is operatively connected to the controller and configured to present the decoded emergency message. A power source is configured to supply electrical power to the processor, and a housing is configured to at least partially enclose the processor, the memory, and the power source. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313771 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUDIBLY INSTRUCTING A USER TO INTERACT WITH A FUNCTION - A method for audibly instructing a user to interact with a function. A function is associated with a user-written selectable item. The user-written selectable item is recognized on a surface. In response to recognizing the user-written selectable item, a first instructional message related to the operation of the function is audibly rendered without requiring further interaction from the user. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNIT SELECTION TEXT-TO-SPEECH USING A MODIFIED VITERBI APPROACH - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for speech synthesis. A system practicing the method receives a set of ordered lists of speech units, for each respective speech unit in each ordered list in the set of ordered lists, constructs a sublist of speech units from a next ordered list which are suitable for concatenation, performs a cost analysis of paths through the set of ordered lists of speech units based on the sublist of speech units for each respective speech unit, and synthesizes speech using a lowest cost path of speech units through the set of ordered lists based on the cost analysis. The ordered lists can be ordered based on the respective pitch of each speech unit. In one embodiment, speech units which do not have an assigned pitch can be assigned a pitch. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313773 | SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A search apparatus includes a sound recognition unit which recognizes input sound, a user information estimation unit which estimates at least one of a physical condition and emotional demeanor of a speaker of the input sound based on the input sound and outputs user information representing the estimation result, a matching unit which performs matching between a search result target pronunciation symbol string and a recognition result pronunciation symbol string for each of plural search result target word strings, and a generation unit which generates a search result word string as a search result for a word string corresponding to the input sound from the plural search result target word strings based on the matching result. At least one of the matching unit and the generation unit changes processing in accordance with the user information. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313774 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Measuring Health - Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. A spoken phrase is received and time-stamped. The user is identified from the spoken phrase. A window of time is determined from a semantic content of the spoken phrase. A sensor measurement is received and time-stamped. A difference in time between the time-stamped spoken phrase and the time-stamped sensor measurement is determined and compared to the window of time. When the difference in time is within the window of time, then the sensor measurement is associated with the user. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313775 | Television Remote Control Data Transfer - A computer-implemented method for information sharing between a portable computing device and a television system includes receiving a spoken input from a user of the portable computing device, by the portable computing device, submitting a digital recording of the spoken query from the portable computing device to a remote server system, receiving from the remote server system a textual representation of the spoken query, and automatically transmitting the textual representation from the portable computing device to the television system. The television system is programmed to submit the textual representation as a search query and to present to the user media-related results that are determined to be responsive to the spoken query. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313776 | System and Method for Controlling Devices that are Connected to a Network - A system, method and computer-readable medium for controlling devices connected to a network. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user for remotely controlling a device in a network; converting the received utterance to text using an automatic speech recognition module; accessing a user profile in the network that governs access to a plurality of devices on the network and identifiers which control a conversion of the text to a device specific control language; identifying based on the text a device to be controlled; converting at least a portion of the text to the device control language; and transmitting the device control language to the identified device, wherein the identified device implements a function based on the transmitted device control language. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313777 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR OBTAINING A PARAMETER DESCRIBING A VARIATION OF A SIGNAL CHARACTERISTIC OF A SIGNAL - An apparatus for obtaining a parameter describing a variation of a signal characteristic of a signal on the basis of actual transform-domain parameters describing the audio signal in transform-domain includes a parameter determinator. The parameter determinator is configured to determine one or more model parameters of a transform-domain variation model describing an evolution of the transform-domain parameters in dependence on one or more model parameters representing a signal characteristic, such that a model error, representing a deviation between a modeled temporal evolution of the transform-domain parameters and an evolution of the actual transform-domain parameters, is brought below a predetermined threshold value or minimized. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY ENCODING AND DECODING HIGH FREQUENCY BAND - Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal. According to the present application, a signal of a high frequency band above a preset frequency band is adaptively encoded or decoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain by using a signal of a low frequency band below the preset frequency band. As such, the sound quality of a high frequency signal is not deteriorate even when an audio signal is encoded or decoded by using a small number of bits and thus coding efficiency may be maximized. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313779 | AUGMENTATION AND CORRECTION OF LOCATION BASED DATA THROUGH USER FEEDBACK - User feedback such as “crowd sourcing” is utilized for supplementing and correcting augmented location information like augmented maps and/or street view images. User feedback on missing or incorrect information is elicited through “treasure hunt” style augmented reality games, monetary or similar rewards, and comparable incentives. Various mechanisms such as authentication of data submitting users, input from known users, image or location based confirmation from a data submitting user, and similar ones may be employed to verify the new data before or after it is published. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313780 | Method for acquiring information from various parties, for preserving and perpetuating said information and for making it available to descendants and future generations for their use - We present a method for providing a service to various parties (e.g. regular people, institutions, organizations, associations of all kinds) for keeping the information that these parties want (e.g. personal information, medical, journalistic, historic, economical, scientific, technical and concerning any other activity and organization) such that this information is available for the use of future generations and descendants of such parties as far into the future as possible. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313781 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF AWARD-BASED CROSS PROMOTIONS - A system and related methods for creating and managing award-based cross promotions (ABCP) online are disclosed. An ABCP management system can allow sponsor entities (e.g. merchants) or an ABCP campaign organizer to create and specify details of a particular ABCP campaign, which is designed to be jointly funded by multiple sponsor entities interested in the particular ABCP campaign. The novel concept of joint-funded ABCP campaign via an online ABCP management system provides an advantage of creating a larger award for a selected winner from a pool of entrants to the ABCP campaign. The participation of a pool of sponsors allows each sponsor to leverage from a wider marketing reach of the pool, which creates a greater marketing buzz. Furthermore, the larger award in the joint-funded ABCP campaign reduces financial burdens of advertising/promotion campaigns per sponsor entity while attracting more potential entrants to the particular ABCP campaign. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313782 | INTEGRATED CLINICAL TRIAL WORKFLOW SYSTEM - A computer-based system configured to present a user interface that enables a user to access multiple clinical trial systems via a common secure web-based interface. Data integration and reconciliation achieved using an integration platform, in which multiple clinical trial systems are connected to a central messaging hub, provides an integrated clinical trial workflow system that reduces the redundancy in data entry and functionality present in conventional clinical trial workflow systems that employ standalone systems for various aspects of clinical trial management. Aggregation of data using the integration platform provides clinical trial directors with consolidated useful information for making management decisions and the user interface may be dynamically configured based, at least in part, on user access credentials resulting in a more efficient workflow for administrators of a clinical trial. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313783 | TRANSPORTATION MODE DETERMINATION IN NON-MASS CASUALTY TRIAGE - Transportation mode determination in non-mass casualty triage is provided and involves receiving, from incident personnel at a casualty scene, patient screening information for a victim or victims at the casualty scene. Location screening information for the victim or victims is also established and received. Victim eligibility for Medevac transport is determined by logically factoring the patient screening information and the location screening information. The determination can be performed by computer implemented decision logic. In addition to determining eligibility of the victim or victims for Medevac transport, transportation mode determination (e.g., what type of transportation) can be established for those determined eligible, determination of whether to transport to a trauma center or care facility, determination/selection of a specific trauma center or care facility for treatment, and/or a determination of an order of treatment, or transport for treatment, for each of the victims. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313784 | HEALTHCARE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A healthcare information communication system is configured to send automated messages to patients of a medical practice based, at least in part, on data stored on a practice management system. Integration between components of the healthcare information communication system and the practice management system including a health information management system and a billing management system facilitate patient visits to a medical practice by reducing the burden on medical practice personnel to collect all information from patients during visits to the medical practice. Automated messaging and reminder of appointments based on information stored in the practice management system reduce the amount of revenue lost by a medical practice due to last minute cancellations, no-shows at the medical practice, and uncollected outstanding bills. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313785 | SATORI INTEGRATED HEALTH & FINANCIAL BENEFITS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A shared medical savings system and method are provided that allow a patient to participate in the savings generated by selecting to have a medical procedure performed overseas. The system has one or more computing devices, a link that is capable of connecting the one or more computing devices to a medical shared savings unit that is capable of interacting with the computing devices. An employer uses the computing device to elect to participate in a medical savings plan using a Health Reimbursement Account, a patient using the computing device to select an overseas medical procedure that is part of the medical savings plan so that the savings for the overseas medical procedure is divided between the employer and the patient utilizing a medical savings plan. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313786 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT REVIEW - A method of medical treatment review. The method can include the steps of receiving patient data into a patient database in which the patient data at least includes a diagnosis of the patient and providing one or more treatment protocols for the patient for selection by a treating provider in which the treatment protocols are pre-approved for the patient diagnosis. The method can also include the steps of analyzing a selection of a treatment protocol by the treating provider and generating an authorization of the selected treatment protocol based on predefined criteria. Generating the authorization of the selected treatment protocol can include generating the authorization without any peer review if the selected protocol meets the predefined criteria or generating the authorization following peer review if the selected protocol does not meet the predefined criteria. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313787 | Operating System - A new and improved operating system is described. The system enables a user to receive information in many different types of formats and converts them into a uniform format. The system can also use the information to fill out forms in different types of formats, and then send them to the appropriate recipient. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313788 | READMISSION RISK ASSESMENT - A readmission risk prediction model is generated and used for identifying patients having elevated risk of readmission and determining inpatient treatment and outpatient activities based on readmission risk. Readmission risk prediction models may be generated for a variety of different clinical conditions using logistic regression techniques. When a patient is admitted to a hospital, the patient's condition is identified and a corresponding readmission risk prediction model is employed to identify the patient's risk of readmission. The readmission risk may be presented to a clinician and employed to recommend interventions intended to treat the patient and reduce the probability of readmission for the patient. The patient's readmission risk may also be calculated after the patient has been discharged and used for planning outpatient activities for the patient. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313789 | ELECTRONIC PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM - An electronic patient monitoring system comprising a monitoring client module configured to receive real time data from monitoring devices connected to a patient, and historical information pertaining to the patient's physical characteristics, past medical history, current medications, drug allergies, among other information; the monitoring client capable of processing this information to determine whether a treatment ordered by a health care provider is appropriate under the circumstances. The monitoring client module may communicate with a communications module having a user interface, through which orders, such as medication orders, may be entered and transmitted to the monitoring client module. The monitoring client module, in turn, may transmit warnings or recommendations to the communications module for review by the provider. The original order may be confirmed by the provider, or a modified order may be entered in the communications module, which may then be transmitted to the monitoring client module for further processing of the order. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313790 | METHOD OF DELIVERING DECISION SUPORT SYSTEMS (DSS) AND ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR) FOR REPRODUCTIVE CARE, PRE-CONCEPTIVE CARE, FERTILITY TREATMENTS, AND OTHER HEALTH CONDITIONS - Provided are methods of delivering decision support systems (DSSs) to healthcare providers, patients, and/or consumers with or without integrated electronic health records (EHRs) for reproductive care and other health conditions. The DSS platforms of the present invention include predication models based upon de-identified data sets and customized algorithms that may be clinic specific, region specific, and/or population specific. The DSS platforms of the present invention also include methods of providing third party payments of an individual's medical bills, wherein the third party is not capable of viewing the personal health identifiers of the individual. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313791 | System and Method for a Health Campaign Manager - A system and method for a campaign manager. The campaign manager is a complex health management toolset that allows a health organization to create, deploy, and monitor health programs targeted to a specific patient population by any health variable. The health programs are distributed through a campaign that can include a single health program or multiple health programs. As such, this provides a customized treatment to be offered to a specific population. Once the patient or group of patients enroll in a program, the health care professional of the health organization is able to monitor patient performance in the program using a triage dashboard. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313792 | System and Method for a Records Management and Permissioning System - Systems and methods for providing document management. The method includes managing a first record associated with a patient, wherein the patient controls access to the first record. In addition, a second record is managed, wherein the second record is associated with the patient. A health care provider providing care to the patient controls access to the second record. Access to the first record by the health care provider is allowed when the patient grants permission. Also, access to the second record by the patient is allowed when the health care provider grants permission. Both the first and second records are aligned during the period of mutual access. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313793 | Fantasy Sports Insurance - A method of providing insurance to a fantasy sports participant includes receiving a request from the participant for an insurance policy covering an insured risk for an insured amount and providing an insurance policy to the participant covering the insured risk for the insured amount, in exchange for a premium. The participant owns a fantasy team and is in a fantasy league. The insured risk is at least one player on the fantasy team not playing for at least a portion of a fantasy season of the fantasy league. An amount of the premium is dependent on underwriting of the insured risk and the insured amount. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313794 | Insurance Coverage Validation - A method of evaluating insurance coverage under a policy of insurance, including receiving first insurance claim information associated with an insurance claim, outputting a representative portion of the insurance policy, receiving second insurance claim information in response to the output representative portion of the insurance policy and generating an insurance coverage record based on the second insurance claim information and the insurance policy. The first insurance claim information includes a claimant identifier and a policy identifier. The policy identifier corresponds to a portion of an insurance policy. The representative portion of the insurance policy being selected by a computer processing device in response to the receipt of the first insurance claim information. The second insurance claim information being associated with the insurance claim. The insurance coverage record identifies whether there exists an issue needed to be resolved for the validation of insurance coverage and identifies if any issues exist. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313795 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC POLICYHOLDER REVIEW USING DYNAMIC INTERVIEWS - A policyholder report may be obtained by an insurer from an insured through a series of questions presented by an automated, electronic system. The insured may access the system through a portal, such as a graphical user interface, which may ask the insured a dynamic series of account and/or risk-based questions at or near the expiration of an insurance policy term, and permit the insured to submit verification and supporting information through the portal. Based on the insured's responses to the questions and the information provided, the insurer may complete a review and/or audit, and determine an adjustment to the premium. Additionally, the system may permit the insured and the insurer to review the audit during all stages of completion, and may allow the insured to opt out of the electronic process at any time, or to dispute the results of the audit through the portal. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313796 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATED TO LONGEVITY INSURANCE - The present invention provides a life insurance product known as longevity insurance. Longevity insurance mitigates longevity risk, the risk that an individual will outlive his or her assets. More specifically, the purchase of longevity insurance guarantees an individual a predetermined, periodic income payment for the life of the purchaser. The guaranteed stream of monthly income commences at a later date, which may be utilized to supplement an existing income level or provide income in the event that the individual outlives his or her accumulated assets. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313797 | CONTEXT AWARE OFFICE SPACE LOCATOR - The system and method provide an efficient system for scheduling office space at a site. A request is received to schedule an office space at the site. Communications and/or relationships with the person who requested the office space and other person(s) are identified. A communication can be any type of communication such as emails, voice calls, social network postings, scheduled conference rooms, and the like. A relationship can be any type of relationship such as being in the same group, being on the same project, and the like. A location(s) at the site that is associated with the other person(s) (e.g., another person's office location, a conference room location, etc.) is used to schedule the office space. This way, the office space that is scheduled is more centrally located in regard to those people with whom the requestor of the office space will be meeting/working | 2011-12-22 |
20110313798 | SHORT-TERM HOUSING RENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - As will be discussed in greater detail herein, a short-term housing rental management system and method provides tools for housing property managers, owners, renters, and others to better facilitate processes involved with offering and renting housing on a short-term basis. The system adds a more dynamic nature to pricing to be adaptive to changing conditions regarding such factors as timing and demand for particular short-term rental properties. Among other things, the system uses yield management to establish proper margins in rental pricing to increase returns from a rental event while seeking to increase occupancies. The system allows for short-term housing inventory to be offered simultaneously under more than one approach. For instance, the system could offer the short-term housing opportunity for a no commission approach, a merchant approach, and an agent approach. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313799 | DISTRIBUTION SERVICES RESERVATION INTEGRATION - Systems according to embodiments of the present invention include a core adapter module configured to receive reservation information from a reservation system in a first format useable by the reservation system, a web service module configured to identify a provider system based on the reservation information and to place the reservation information into a second format useable by the provider system, and a distribution module configured to send the reservation information in the second format to the provider system. Methods according to embodiments of the present invention include receiving reservation information from a reservation system in a first format useable by the reservation system, identifying a provider system based on the reservation information, processing the reservation information to place the reservation information into a second format useable by the provider system, and sending the reservation information in the second format to the provider system. | 2011-12-22 |
20110313800 | Systems and Methods for Impact Analysis in a Computer Network - In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a computer-implemented apparatus and method is provided for determining the impact of certain actions on the performance of a pre-specified or modeled system is provided. A manifest variable database is utilized for storing manifest variable data relating to user interaction with a system of interest. An imputation module may be coupled to the manifest variable database for calculating any missing manifest variables. Embodiments of the invention may further include a statistical weights calculator for determining strength of correlation among manifest and latent variables, a latent score calculator, a fuzzy clustering module that derives clusters or segments that have their own impacts and scores for a fitted model and constraining impact calculator that determines the impact of certain operations on the fitted model. | 2011-12-22 |