52nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
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20130346048 | Petrophysical Method For Predicting Shear Strength Anisotropy In Fine-Grained Rock Formations - Method and system is described for modeling one or more geophysical properties of a subsurface volume. In one example, a method for predicting strength anisotropy in subsurface formations along a wellpath comprises receiving a stress model of the subsurface formation in the area of the wellpath. Bulk strength properties of target rock are obtained and used to develop anisotropic failure criteria. The stress model may then be combined with the anisotropic failure criteria to develop an anisotropic wellbore stability model which is used to enhance hydrocarbon recovery. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346049 | Method for exploiting a geological reservoir on the basis of a reservoir model matched by means of multiple-scale parameterization - The invention relates to a method for exploiting a geological reservoir which may be a reservoir storing gas (for example CO | 2013-12-26 |
20130346050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING FOCUS OF HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND - A method and apparatus are provided to determine a focus of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). The method and apparatus include designating an initial location of an observation point on a three-dimensional (3-D) organ model. The method and apparatus also include determining a first location to which the observation point has moved as a result of a change in a form of the 3-D organ model, and transmitting the ultrasound to the observation point. The method and apparatus further determine a displacement of the observation point through a time taken to receive a reflected wave from the observation point, determine a second location of the observation point using the obtained displacement, and process the first and second locations to determine a final location to which the observation point has moved. The method and apparatus include determining the focus of the HIFU based on the determined final location of the observation point. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346051 | AUTOMATED FIDUCIAL MARKER PLANNING METHOD - A system and method are described for determining candidate fiducial marker locations in the vicinity of a lesion. Imaging information and data are input or received by the system and candidate marker locations are calculated and displayed to the physician. Additionally, interactive feedback may be provided to the physician for manually selected or identified sites. The physician may thus receive automatic real time feedback for a candidate fiducial marker location and adjust or accept a constellation of fiducial marker locations. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346052 | MODULAR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING PERFORMANCE OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE - A system for simulating operation of an electrical device includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and a host machine. The PCBA includes a communications module, modular power switching modules (PSMs), and modular cells. Using an associated method, each PSM applies a predetermined pulse width modulation (PWM) duty cycle to AC input power to generate a calibrated DC output voltage. The cells, which are connected to a respective PSM, include a microcontroller. The host machine transmits a controller area network (CAN) cell state message to the communications module. The communications module converts the cell state messages into corresponding serial messages, and transmits the serial messages to the microprocessors of the cells to cause the cells to set their states to the desired simulation state. The cells generate the desired simulation state using PWM and transmit a cell status message back to the host machine via the communications module. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346053 | MODELING AND COOPERATIVE SIMULATION OF SYSTEMS WITH INTERDEPENDENT DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS ELEMENTS - Cooperative modeling of discrete system elements and continuous system elements is described, in which a discrete system element and a relationship between the discrete system element and a continuous system element is modeled in a first modeling environment, where a description of the discrete system element and of the relationship between the discrete system element and the continuous system element is exported from the first modeling environment to a second modeling environment, causing the discrete system element and the relationship between the discrete system element and the continuous system element to be modeled in the second modeling environment, where the continuous system element is modeled in the second modeling environment. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346054 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING LAYOUT OF DEVICES IN SOLAR INSTALLATIONS - For an array of installed energy harvesting devices, a method of gathering information about individual devices in the array and generating a layout or map of the installed devices based on the gathered information is provided. A communications gateway or a base station gathers the information and determines the positions of individual micro-inverters. The gathered information is used to generate a topological or geometrical map of the installed devices. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346055 | MODELING AND COOPERATIVE SIMULATION OF SYSTEMS WITH INTERDEPENDENT DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS ELEMENTS - Cooperative modeling of discrete system elements and continuous system elements is described, in which a discrete system element and a relationship between the discrete system element and a continuous system element is modeled in a first modeling environment, where a description of the discrete system element and of the relationship between the discrete system element and the continuous system element is exported from the first modeling environment to a second modeling environment, causing the discrete system element and the relationship between the discrete system element and the continuous system element to be modeled in the second modeling environment, where the continuous system element is modeled in the second modeling environment. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346056 | Generation of Memory Structural Model Based on Memory Layout - A memory structural model is generated directly from memory configuration information and memory layout information in an efficient manner. Information on strap distribution is generated by analyzing configuration information of the memory and the corresponding memory layout. Information on scrambling of addresses in the memory layout is generated by programming the memory layout with physical bit patterns, extracting corresponding logical bit patterns and then analyzing the discrepancy between the physical bit patterns and the logical bit patterns. The strap distribution information and the address scrambling information are combined into the memory structural model used for designing an efficient test and repair engine. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346057 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR POWER RESTORATION PLANNING - In at least some embodiments, a computer system includes a processor and a storage device coupled to the processor. The storage device stores a program that, when executed, causes the processor to simulate restoration of a power grid system and to generate a restoration plan for the power grid system based on the simulation. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346058 | SIMULATING VECTOR EXECUTION - A system and method for simulating new instructions without compiler support for the new instructions. A simulator detects a given region in code generated by a compiler. The given region may be a candidate for vectorization or may be a region already vectorized. In response to the detection, the simulator suspends execution of a time-based simulation. The simulator then serially executes the region for at least two iterations using a functional-based simulation and using instructions with operands which correspond to P or less lanes of single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) execution. The value P is a maximum number of lanes of SIMD exection supported both by the compiler. The simulator stores checkpoint state during the serial execution. In response to determining no inter-iteration memory dependencies exist, the simulator returns to the time-based simulation and resumes execution using N-wide vector instructions. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346059 | LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IN MACHINE TRANSLATION - Systems, methods, and computer program products for machine translation are provided. In some implementations a system is provided. The system includes a language model including a collection of n-grams from a corpus, each n-gram having a corresponding relative frequency in the corpus and an order n corresponding to a number of tokens in the n-gram, each n-gram corresponding to a backoff n-gram having an order of n−1 and a collection of backoff scores, each backoff score associated with an n-gram, the backoff score determined as a function of a backoff factor and a relative frequency of a corresponding backoff n-gram in the corpus. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346060 | TRANSLATION INTERFACING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING VISION TRACKING - Disclosed herein are a translation interfacing apparatus and method using vision tracking. The translation interfacing apparatus includes a vision tracking unit, a comparison unit, a sentence detection unit, a sentence translation unit, and a sentence output unit. The vision tracking unit tracks a user's eyes based on one or more images input via the camera of a portable terminal, and extracts time information about a period for which the user's eyes have been fixed and location information about a location on which the user's eyes are focused. The comparison unit compares the time information with a preset eye fixation period. The sentence detection unit detects a sentence corresponding to the location information if the time information is equal to or longer than the eye fixation period. The sentence translation unit translates the detected sentence. The sentence output unit outputs a translated sentence onto the screen of the portable terminal | 2013-12-26 |
20130346061 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERY - Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for linking virtual content to various types of object, such a static physical objects, through the use of triggers of varying formats. The virtual content can be updated by a content curator over time. The virtual content can be translated into a plurality of languages and can be selectively transmitted to a mobile communications device upon receipt of the trigger. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346062 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND APPARATUS FOR USE IN A TRANSLATION SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for use in natural language translation comprises performing in software processes, the steps of: comparing source material with stored material in a first natural language, said stored material having previously been translated from said first natural language to at least a second natural language, identifying at least a part of said source material which has a relationship with at least a part of said stored material, outputting said identified part of source material and said identified part of stored material in a form suitable for review by a user, and replacing said identified part of source material with said identified part of stored material to assist full translation of said source material from said first natural language to at least said second natural language. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346063 | Dynamic Translation Substitution - Mechanisms are provided for translating messages output by processes associated with the data processing system. Language based user activities occurring via a data processing system are tracked and automatically analyzed to determine a relative priority ordering of one or more languages used by a user performing the user activities. A sequence of preferred language translation substitutions is generated for outputting messages based on results of the analysis and is automatically applied to a received message from a process associated with the data processing system to generate a translated message using one of the preferred language translation substitutions in the sequence of preferred language translation substitutions. The translated message is output via an output device of the data processing system. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346064 | Dynamic Translation Substitution - Mechanisms are provided for translating messages output by processes associated with the data processing system. Language based user activities occurring via a data processing system are tracked and automatically analyzed to determine a relative priority ordering of one or more languages used by a user performing the user activities. A sequence of preferred language translation substitutions is generated for outputting messages based on results of the analysis and is automatically applied to a received message from a process associated with the data processing system to generate a translated message using one of the preferred language translation substitutions in the sequence of preferred language translation substitutions. The translated message is output via an output device of the data processing system. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346065 | Automatic Language Identification for Dynamic Text Processing - Methods and systems which utilize, in one embodiment, automatic language identification, including automatic language identification for dynamic text processing. In at least certain embodiments, automatic language identification can be applied to spellchecking in real time as the user types. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346066 | Joint Decoding of Words and Tags for Conversational Understanding - Joint decoding of words and tags may be provided. Upon receiving an input from a user comprising a plurality of elements, the input may be decoded into a word lattice comprising a plurality of words. A tag may be assigned to each of the plurality of words and a most-likely sequence of word-tag pairs may be identified. The most-likely sequence of word-tag pairs may be evaluated to identify an action request from the user. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346067 | REAL-TIME MESSAGE SENTIMENT AWARENESS - Provided are techniques for determining a sentiment of an electronic message. The electronic message is parsed to identify one or more sub-constructs. For at least one of the sub-constructs that is not false-positive, a sentiment indicator is assigned from a set of types of sentiment indicators, and a score is assigned for the sentiment indicator. A final score is obtained for at least one type of sentiment indicator in the electronic message by summing scores for that type of sentiment indicator. Based on the final score for the at least one type of sentiment indicator, a sentiment of the electronic message is identified. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346068 | Voice-Based Image Tagging and Searching - The electronic device with one or more processors and memory provides a digital photograph of a real-world scene. The electronic device provides a natural language text string corresponding to a speech input associated with the digital photograph. The electronic device performs natural language processing on the text string to identify one or more terms associated with an entity, an activity, or a location. The electronic device tags the digital photograph with the one or more terms and their associated entity, activity, or location. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346069 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A MENTIONED PERSON IN A DIALOG - This application relates to a method and apparatus for identifying a mentioned person in a dialog. A method for identifying a mentioned person in a dialog, comprising: identifying at least one person name entity associated with a mentioned person name which is acquired from the dialog; acquiring a group of candidate identifiers associated with the mentioned person name; acquiring at least one relation feature for each of the candidate identifiers from internal resources and external resources, wherein the relation feature refers to the relation between the candidate identifier and the at least one person name entity; and selecting an identifier from the group of candidate identifiers as the identifier of the mentioned person name based on the at least one relation feature. According to the method and the apparatus of the present invention, a mentioned person can be accurately identified. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346070 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION - Disclosed is an acoustic communication method that includes filtering an audio signal to attenuate a high frequency section of the audio signal; generating a residual signal which corresponds to a difference between the audio signal and the filtered signal; generating a psychoacoustic mask for the audio signal based on a predetermined psychoacoustic model; generating a psychoacoustic spectrum mask by combining the residual signal with the psychoacoustic mask; generating an acoustic communication signal by modulating digital data according to the acoustic signal spectrum mask; and combining the acoustic communication signal with the filtered signal. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346071 | METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY TRANSFORMING A PLURALITY OF VOICE SIGNALS INPUT TO A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method of simultaneously transforming at least two input voice signals x | 2013-12-26 |
20130346072 | NOISE FEEDBACK CODING FOR DELTA MODULATION AND OTHER CODECS - Systems and methods are described that apply a noise feedback coding (NFC) technique at the encoder of a delta modulation codec, such as a Continuously Variable Slope Delta Modulation (CVSD) codec, so as to shape the spectrum of the coding noise produced thereby in such a way that the speech quality of the delta modulation decoder output is enhanced. The techniques described herein are not limited to delta modulation codecs and may also be applied to any sample-by-sample codec, including a G.711 μ-law codec, a linear pulse code modulation (LPCM), or any other of a wide variety of sample-by-sample codecs, to improve the audio quality of the decoder output thereof. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346073 | AUDIO ENCODER/DECODER APPARATUS - Apparatus comprising a noise estimator configured to determine a noise estimate for a first part of an audio signal, a comparator configured to compare the noise estimate to an energy threshold parameter, a damping factor determiner configured to determine a damping factor for at least one sub band gain value of a second part of an audio signal, wherein the damping factor is dependent on a result of the comparison and a gain modifier configured to apply the damping factor to the sub band gain value. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346074 | Verification of Extracted Data - Facts are extracted from speech and recorded in a document using codings. Each coding represents an extracted fact and includes a code and a datum. The code may represent a type of the extracted fact and the datum may represent a value of the extracted fact. The datum in a coding is rendered based on a specified feature of the coding. For example, the datum may be rendered as boldface text to indicate that the coding has been designated as an “allergy.” In this way, the specified feature of the coding (e.g., “allergy”-ness) is used to modify the manner in which the datum is rendered. A user inspects the rendering and provides, based on the rendering, an indication of whether the coding was accurately designated as having the specified feature. A record of the user's indication may be stored, such as within the coding itself. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346075 | FACILITATION OF CONCURRENT CONSUMPTION OF MEDIA CONTENT BY MULTIPLE USERS USING SUPERIMPOSED ANIMATION - Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are described herein for facilitation of concurrent consumption of media content by a first user of a first computing device and a second user of a second computing device. In various embodiments, facilitation may include superimposition of an animation of the second user over the media content presented on the first computing device, based on captured visual data of the second user received from the second computing device. In various embodiments, the animation may be visually emphasized on determination of the first user's interest in the second user. In various embodiments, facilitation may include conditional alteration of captured visual data of the first user based at least in part on whether the second user has been assigned a trusted status, and transmittal of the altered or unaltered visual data of the first user to the second computing device. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346076 | VISUAL CONFIRMATION OF VOICE RECOGNIZED TEXT INPUT - A computing device receives an audio input from a user. The computing device determines a series of words from the audio input. The computing device outputs, for display, one or more substituted symbols. The one or more substituted symbols correspond to at least a portion of the series of words. In response to determining that receipt of the audio input has completed, the computing device outputs, for display, alphanumeric characters comprising the series of words in place of the one or more substituted symbols. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346077 | DYNAMIC LANGUAGE MODEL - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for speech recognition. One of the methods includes receiving a base language model for speech recognition including a first word sequence having a base probability value; receiving a voice search query associated with a query context; determining that a customized language model is to be used when the query context satisfies one or more criteria associated with the customized language model; obtaining the customized language model, the customized language model including the first word sequence having an adjusted probability value being the base probability value adjusted according to the query context; and converting the voice search query to a text search query based on one or more probabilities, each of the probabilities corresponding to a word sequence in a group of one or more word sequences, the group including the first word sequence having the adjusted probability value. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346078 | MIXED MODEL SPEECH RECOGNITION - In one aspect, a method comprises accessing audio data generated by a computing device based on audio input from a user, the audio data encoding one or more user utterances. The method further comprises generating a first transcription of the utterances by performing speech recognition on the audio data using a first speech recognizer that employs a language model based on user-specific data. The method further comprises generating a second transcription of the utterances by performing speech recognition on the audio data using a second speech recognizer that employs a language model independent of user-specific data. The method further comprises determining that the second transcription of the utterances includes a term from a predefined set of one or more terms. The method further comprises, based on determining that the second transcription of the utterance includes the term, providing an output of the first transcription of the utterance. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346079 | SPEECH RECOGNITION AND TRANSCRIPTION AMONG USERS HAVING HETEROGENEOUS PROTOCOLS - A system for facilitating free form dictation, including directed dictation and constrained recognition and/or structured transcription among users having heterogeneous protocols for generating, transcribing, and exchanging recognized and transcribed speech. The system includes a system transaction manager having a “system protocol,” to receive a speech information request from an authorized user. The speech information request is generated using a user interface capable of bi-directional communication with the system transaction manager and supporting dictation applications. A speech recognition and/or transcription engine (ASR), in communication with the system transaction manager, receives the speech information request, generates a transcribed response, and transmits the response to the system transaction manager. The system transaction manager routes the response to one or more of the users. In another embodiment, the system employs a virtual sound driver for streaming free form dictation to any ASR. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346080 | System And Method For Performing Distributed Speech Recognition - A system and method for performing distributed speech recognition is provided. Audio data is received on a main recognizer and on each of a plurality of secondary recognizers. Secondary grammars are transmitted to each of the secondary recognizers. The secondary recognizers each perform speech recognition on the audio data using the secondary grammar for that secondary recognizer. A new grammar is constructed based on results of the speech recognition by each of the secondary recognizers. The main recognizer performs speech recognition on the audio data using the new grammar. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346081 | DEVICE FOR AIDING COMMUNICATION IN THE AERONAUTICAL DOMAIN - The device ( | 2013-12-26 |
20130346082 | LOW-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE FROM HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA - Low-dimensional structure from high-dimensional data is described for example, in the context of video foreground/background segmentation, speech signal background identification, document clustering and other applications where distortions in the observed data may exist. In various embodiments a first convex optimization process is used to find low dimensional structure from observations such as video frames in a manner which is robust to distortions in the observations; a second convex optimization process is used for incremental observations so bringing computational efficiency whilst retaining robustness. In various embodiments error checks are made to decide when to move between the first and second optimization processes. In various examples, the second convex optimization process encourages similarity between the solution it produces and the solution of the first convex optimization process, for example, by using an objective function which is suitable for convex optimization. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346083 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For User-Controlled Processing Of Audio Signals - A computer-implemented system and method for user-controlled processing of audio signals is provided. An audio signal including a reference segment and a segment preceding the reference segment is obtained. A value q is received from a user. Audio buffers in the preceding segment are defined, each having a width of N samples and a starting point a unique number of samples away from the preceding segment's start, based on a division of N by q. One or more of the buffers are transformed into discrete Fourier transform (DFT) buffers. A signature of the signal is generated using at least a portion of the reference segment and at least one of the DFT buffers. A new audio signal is received and a DFT for the audio signal is generated. The new audio signal is determined to match the audio signal based on a comparison of the DFT to the signature. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346084 | Enhanced Accuracy of User Presence Status Determination - Technologies are described herein for enhancing a user presence status determination. Visual data may be received from a depth camera configured to be arranged within a three-dimensional space. A current user presence status of a user in the three-dimensional space may be determined based on the visual data. A previous user presence status of the user may be transformed to the current user presence status, responsive to determining the current user presence status of the user. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346085 | MOUTH CLICK SOUND BASED COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, and including hardware devices performing a mouth click sound based human-device interaction. In one aspect, receiving at least one mouth click sound signals from a human user, by an acoustic-to-electric sensor of a computing device, and processing the received signals. The received mouth click sound signals may be accompanied by other mouth click sound signals, and other interaction signals. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346086 | Method and System for Providing an Automated Web Transcription Service - A system, method and computer readable medium that provides an automated web transcription service is disclosed. The method may include receiving input speech from a user using a communications network, recognizing the received input speech, understanding the recognized speech, transcribing the understood speech to text, storing the transcribed text in a database, receiving a request via a web page to display the transcribed text, retrieving transcribed text from the database, and displaying the transcribed text to the requester using the web page. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346087 | Filling of Non-Coded Sub-Vectors in Transform Coded Audio Signals - A spectrum filler for filling non-coded residual sub-vectors of a transform coded audio signal includes a sub-vector compressor ( | 2013-12-26 |
20130346088 | AUDIO CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An audio coding method and apparatus are disclosed, where the method includes: dividing an input audio signal into a low-band signal and a high-band signal; identifying types of the low-band signal and the high-band signal; adaptively allocating a total input rate of the audio signal to the low-band signal and the high-band signal according to different coding modes corresponding to the low-band signal and the high-band signal; and coding the low-band signal through a coding mode corresponding to the low-band signal according to the low-band rate, and coding the high-band signal through a coding mode corresponding to the high-band signal according to the high-band rate. In embodiments of the present application, when the low-band signal and the high-band signal are coded, coding rates are adaptively adjusted according to different types of the signals, thereby improving overall audio coding performance. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346089 | PERSONAL HEALTH SERVER AND ECOSYSTEM - The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a device, system, and method for remote healthcare. A personal health server device is connected to one or more wired or wireless medical devices. The medical devices monitor medical data such as heart rate, body weight, oxygen saturation, medical adherence, blood coagulation, blood pressure, glucose, temperature, or activity level. The personal health server device stores the medical data from the medical devices and wirelessly transmits the medical data to web enabled browsers through a cellular carrier using a cellular carrier signal such as 3G, 4G, or LTE, with no need for an internet connection. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346090 | Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Providing Disease and/or Condition Specific Adaptive Mobile Health Content, Applications and/or Solutions - Systems, methods and computer program products for providing condition specific adaptive content include receiving condition specific information into a data repository, defining requirements corresponding to the condition specific information, building a condition specific application based on the requirements, configuring the condition specific application corresponding to user-specific attribute and delivering the condition specific application to a processing device that is operable to execute the condition specific application. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346091 | TRANSITION MONITORING AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS - The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a device, system, and method for remote healthcare. A personal health server device is connected to one or more wired or wireless medical devices. The medical devices monitor medical data such as heart rate, body weight, oxygen saturation, medical adherence, blood coagulation, blood pressure, glucose, temperature, or activity level. The personal health server device stores the medical data from the medical devices and wirelessly transmits the medical data to web enabled browsers through a cellular carrier using a cellular carrier signal such as 3G, 4G, or LTE, with no need for an internet connection. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346092 | METHOD FOR TAILORING STRATEGY MESSAGES FROM AN EXPERT SYSTEM TO ENHANCE SUCCESS WITH MODIFICATIONS TO HEALTH BEHAVIORS - A system and method for assisting with the maintenance of healthy lifestyle habits by generating tailored strategy messages within an expert system and then pushing those messages to the corresponding individual users of the cellular phones or other portable devices. The system and method allows diet and exercise plans to be tailored to individual users based on their preferences and provides consistent and appropriate strategy messages designed to encourage and motivate users toward successfully maintaining healthy lifestyle habits. Users complete initial assessments which detail individual food and physical activity preferences. The system uses the assessments to generate individualized messages that are pushed to user devices through a system incorporating cellular technologies. Tailored messages are pushed from the computer based expert system to user devices at predetermined times each day. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346093 | Systems and Methods for Analytics on Viable Patient Populations - Systems and methods for analytics on viable patient populations are disclosed. One disclosed method includes displaying a user interface control associated with a patient criteria, receiving a selection of a patient criteria through the user interface control, the patient criteria associated with a characteristic of a patient population, retrieving a subset of patient population source data from a patient population data source, the subset of patient population source data based at least in part on the selected patent criteria, and displaying a graphical representation of a patient population based on the retrieved subset of the patient population source data. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346094 | Systems and Methods For Predictive Analytics for Site Initiation and Patient Enrollment - Methods and systems for predictive analytics for site initiation and patient enrollment are disclosed. One method may include: receiving a user's selection of one or more parameters associated with a clinical trial; accessing a database of data associated with a plurality of previous clinical trials; comparing the one or more parameters to the previous clinical trials; determining one or more factors associated with the clinical trial based on the comparison; and displaying the parameters and the factors on a display. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346095 | AUTOMATED CORRELATION OF CLINICAL FINDINGS - Arrangements described herein relate to correlation of clinical findings. A first list presented can include a plurality of candidate first clinical findings that potentially correspond to a first modality of testing performed on a patient. Responsive to receiving a first user input selecting at least one of the candidate first clinical findings, that candidate first clinical finding can be selected as a first clinical finding corresponding to the first modality of testing. A second list presented can include a plurality of candidate second clinical findings that potentially correspond to a second modality of testing performed. Responsive to receiving a second user input selecting at least one of the candidate second clinical findings, that candidate second clinical finding can be selected as a second clinical finding corresponding to the second modality of testing. A determination can be made whether the first clinical finding and the second clinical finding clinically correlate. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346096 | SYSTEMS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING COSTS OF A HEALTHCARE PRACTICE - Systems, computer programs, and methods for controlling ancillary medical costs of a healthcare practice and/or insurance network with a plurality of physicians participating therein, are provided. According to an example method, the steps include identifying one or more a plurality of physicians having ancillary medical costs that exceed a certain level to thereby identify the physician or physicians for behavior modification with respect to ancillary medical costs. The method can also include generating information identifying recommended alternative ancillary medical procedures to modify behavior of a physician or physicians with respect to management of the ancillary medical costs. The method can also determining whether the ancillary medical costs of the physician or physicians have decreased to a preselected/baseline level, and distributing a percentage of a savings attributed to the modified ancillary medical cost management behavior when the ancillary medical costs have decreased to or below the preselected/baseline level. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346097 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATING TO NURSE INTERVENTION PROGRAM DECISIONS - According to some embodiments, historical claim data may be stored in a computer storage unit. The historical claim data may be used to train and verify a predictive model, the predictive model being associated with an evaluation of claim transactions to determine whether to refer each claim transactions to a nurse intervention program. Data for current claim transactions may be processed, and the trained and verified predictive model may be applied to the data for the current claim transactions to generate a respective output for each of the current claim transactions. Some of the current claim transactions may be selectively routed to a case management center associated with the nurse intervention program based on the outputs generated by the predictive model. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346098 | PATIENT COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A healthcare communication system can include a patient terminal having a keyboard unit with message keys for transmitting different ones of one or more programmed messages, and alphanumeric keys for composing messages. The patient terminal can be communicatively linked to a patient terminal display for presenting the programmed messages and composed messages. Each of the message keys can include identifying indicia associated with a programmed message transmitted upon selection of the message key. The patient terminal keyboard also can include one or more destination keys for specifying one of multiple destination addresses within the healthcare communication system for delivering individual ones of the messages. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346099 | NETWORKED DIALYSIS SYSTEM - A dialysis system includes (i) a first home dialysis machine located at a first patient's home; (ii) a second home dialysis machine located at a second patient's home; (iii) a first modem in data communication with the first home dialysis machine; (iv) a second modem in data communication with the second home dialysis machine; (v) a clinician server associated with a dialysis center; (vi) a first clinician computer in data communication with the clinician server; (vii) a second clinician computer in data communication with the clinician server; (viii) a dialysis center modem in data communication with the clinician server; and (ix) a network in data communication with the first modem, the second modem and the dialysis center modem. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346100 | MEDICAL PAYMENT SYSTEM - A medical payment system is described in which a provider of medical goods and/or services submits, via telephone or other communications medium, a request for payment amount determination for a patient encounter. A price determination system determines which of a plurality of fee schedules negotiated by the provider applies to the patient encounter and calculates, based at least in part on information entered by the provider, a payment amount for the encounter. In one embodiment, the provider receives the payment amount information while the patient is at the point of service. In one embodiment, the provider may use the system to submit a claim for payment by at least one responsible party. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346101 | CLINICAL TRIALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Protocol meta-models are made available to a protocol designer. Each protocol meta-model includes a list of preliminary patient eligibility attributes appropriate for a particular disease category. The protocol designer chooses the appropriate meta-model, and encodes the clinical trial protocol, including eligibility and patient workflow, within the selected meta-model. The resulting protocol database is stored together with databases of other protocols in a library of protocol databases. Once a patient is enrolled into a study, the protocol database indicates to a clinician what tasks are to be performed at each patient visit. These tasks can include both patient management tasks and data management tasks. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346102 | DIALYSIS TREATMENT PRESCRIPTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A dialysis system includes: a home dialysis machine located at a patient's home; a clinician computer associated with a dialysis center, the dialysis center located remotely from the home dialysis machine; a server in data communication with the home dialysis machine and the clinician computer; and wherein the system is configured and arranged for (i) treatment data to be sent by the home dialysis machine to the clinician computer via the server, and (ii) the treatment data to be analyzed to form a treatment prescription that is delivered to and used by the home dialysis machine to perform a subsequent treatment. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346103 | HIPAA-COMPLIANT THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for providing a third-party user HIPAA-compliant access to an electronic medical record system at a clinical site. A request for a clinical study participant list is received from the third-party user, and it is determined that the third-party user has viewing and access rights with respect to the clinical study participant list. The third-party user can select a participant on the clinical study participant list and access the participant's electronic medical record within the electronic medical record system. The electronic medical record is presented to the third-party user in a read-only view, and the third-party user is prevented from searching the EMR system for other electronic medical records. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346104 | COLLABORATION NETWORKING TOOL - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a provider, de-identified data that describes patients. The method includes enabling selective access to the de-identified data in the data store by seekers authorized by the provider. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346105 | COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF NURSING RISK ASSESSMENTS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for using patient information stored in association with the patient's electronic medical record at a first healthcare facility to generate a comprehensive nursing risk assessment for the patient. The comprehensive nursing risk assessment includes nursing risk scenarios for which the patient is at risk and nursing risk prevention measures designed to reduce that risk. The comprehensive nursing risk assessment can be utilized by clinicians other than clinicians in a nursing-type role. The comprehensive nursing risk assessment can also be communicated to other healthcare facilities that are either concurrently caring for the patient with the first healthcare facility or scheduled to care for the patient after the patient is discharged from the first healthcare facility. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346106 | Integrated Health Data Navigator Based On A Single Timeline - Systems, methods, and computer program products for facilitating the navigation of patient clinical data based on a single timeline are disclosed. In an embodiment, such integrated view allows users to navigate through patient health data using a conceptual linkage based on common attributes. Users may also, through use of a Unified Data Navigator built on a web-based client, configure and customize such patient health data displays and save selected settings as personal views. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346107 | MOBILE CLINICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE FRAMEWORK FOR OFFLINE CAPABILITY - Systems and methods are described herein that provide a system associated with a CRA application framework with offline capability. In one example embodiment a trip report skeleton allows trip report data about clinical research to be stored on a mobile device. The mobile device sends a trip report skeleton creation request to a server side logic using the CRA application framework. The activities related to the trip report are performed asynchronously. Therefore, when a fetch request for the trip report skeleton is issued, it is determined if the trip report skeleton is ready. When the trip report skeleton is ready, a trip report skeleton in a Self Describing Object (SDO) format is received. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346108 | System and Apparatus for Electronic Patient Care - A system for electronic patient care includes a network, a facility gateway, a device gateway application and a medical device. The facility gateway is configured to provide a publish-subscribe service for an application. The device gateway application is configured for execution by the facility gateway. The device gateway is configured to communicate via the network by providing a web service. The medical device is in operative communication with the network. The medical device is configured to communicate with the device gateway using the web service. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346109 | CLOUD-BASED HEALTHCARE INFORMATION EXCHANGE - The present disclosure describes systems and methods of a healthcare exchange system to exchange medical information, stored in different formats, between different entities. This exchange system provides a channel for the flow of information and patient records across different health care entities that may store data in different formats. The exchange system's ability to receive requests and retrieve corresponding data from various entities, along with the transformation of data from the storing format into a format specified by the requesting entity, allow a flexible and extendable healthcare information exchange system. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346110 | CLINICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CLINICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - With respect to a patient whose clinical information is stored in a clinical information storage, plural user groups are set to make the clinical information utilized. With respect to each of the user groups, a history of display-setting used when clinical information about the patient is displayed on a display device by a user belonging to the respective user groups is stored in such a manner to be linked with the respective user groups. An input instruction to display patient's clinical information on a display device by a user belonging to one of the plural user groups is received. A display setting for display of this time is selected from the history of display-setting stored in a display history storage in such a manner to be linked with the one of the plural user groups. The patient's clinical information is displayed on the display device by using the selected display-setting. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346111 | Systems and Methods for Subject Identification (ID) Modeling - Systems and methods for subject identification (ID) modeling are disclosed. A subject identification may be associated with information contained in one or more core domains such as a patient domain, a country domain, and/or an investigator domain. The domains can be generically designed such that data sources that are unknown at the time the domains are created can be managed. In this way, using generic structures that support the domains, data sources can be added and/or updated as additional information and/or data sources become available. Using various graphical user interfaces, a user can dynamically associate patient criteria, country criteria, investigator criteria, and/or other information with subject identifications. A subject identification may be associated with a specified capture date. Information contained in the various domains may be filtered such that only information contained in the domain on or before the capture date is available for the subject identification. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346112 | System and Method of Assisting Fundraisers and Donors - The present invention provides a system and method of assisting fundraising entities and their donors, resulting in the realizing of a novel source of donor funds created by adjusting insurance policies carried by the donors. A third party manager identifies eligible donors, assists with managing the donors' personal and commercial insurance policies, assists with the payment of premiums to insurance companies whereby a surplus in donor funds is realized, and assists with transferring funds from that surplus to the fundraising entity. In a preferred embodiment, there is no cost at all to the donor as well as minimal effort to participate. The invention is preferably executed through an online network. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346113 | COMPUTER BASED SYSTEM FOR PRICING AN INDEX-OFFSET DEPOSIT PRODUCT - A computer-based method for determining a value of an index-offset deposit product, having a principal amount, a term, a specified guaranteed amount, and an index credit comprising the step of setting trial values for fixed-income-linked crediting parameters for the product implying an expected fixed-income-linked credit component at the end of the term. The method further comprises the steps of determining a cost for an option paying an index-linked credit component such that a composite index credit together with the principal is at least equal to a specified guaranteed amount. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346114 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A RISK EVALUATION PRODUCT BUILDER USER INTERFACE - The present disclosure describes an approach to constructing and implementing risk rating products that provides a number of advantages. Instead of hard-coding attributes of a risk rating scheme, which requires the assistance of a trained programming specialist for any modifications, adjustments, or new products, the present invention provides a set of modular tools that assist non-specialists in on-the-fly generation and implementation of risk rating products. The modularity of this approach facilitates the modification and/or updating of a system component without affecting the operation of other components. Described herein are embodiments of a risk evaluation product builder, which allows users to manipulate visual tools to generate a data-structure comprising an embodiment of a risk rating scheme and insurance quoting product. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346115 | INSURANCE PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING MOBILE DEVICES FOR MEDICAL MONITORING - Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods and devices are provided for insurance processing including installing a medical monitoring application associated with a user of a mobile device, the medical monitoring application including configuration data associated with at least a first medical monitoring rule, displaying, under control of the medical monitoring application, a series of instructions to cause the mobile device to be configured to communicate with at least a first biometric sensor, collecting, based on the at least first medical monitoring rule, a set of biometric data from the at least first biometric sensor, and transmitting the set of biometric data from the mobile device to a remote processing system for processing a request for insurance. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346116 | MOBILE APPLICATIONS IN PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND ANNUITY PAYMENTS - Systems and methods for the use of mobile applications in patent portfolio management are proposed. In one example embodiment, a method includes providing or enabling a mobile application for a portable electronic device, the mobile application relating to payment of patent annuity fees and allowing presentation of an interactive user interface to a user. The method includes displaying, in the user interface, a cost projection for paying one or more patent annuity fees and allowing a user to select one or more of the displayed patent annuity fees for payment. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346117 | Computer Implemented Methods For Providing Customized Marketing Information - Computer implemented methods for providing customized pricing information based on limited personal data comprising receiving non-identifying demographic information about a prospective customer; receiving non-identifying location information about the prospective customer; receiving non-identifying information about a property of the prospective customer; automatically identifying a comparable segment of existing customers based on the non-identifying demographic information, the non-identifying location information, and the non-identifying information about the property of the prospective customer; automatically determining representative pricing information based on prices paid by existing customers in the comparable segment of existing customers; and generating displayable content comprising the representative pricing information. The displayable content may further comprise comparable rating and products information. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346118 | Data Structures For Providing Customized Marketing Information - A data structure in a tangible computer-readable medium having two or more prospective customer profile records; two or more comparable segment records; and an association between each of the two or more prospective customer profile records and one of the two or more comparable segment records. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346119 | TECHNIQUES FOR BOOKING TRAVEL RESERVATIONS WHILE LEVERAGING TRAVEL WEBSITES - A computer-implemented method is provided for booking a travel reservation in accordance with an organizational travel policy while leveraging search capabilities of travel websites. The method includes: receiving a request for a reservation for a travel service at a travel management service from a person associated with an organization of persons; confirming availability of the requested reservation by interfacing with a reservation system of the travel service provider; evaluating the requested reservation in relation to a travel policy of the organization; and sending a message confirming availability of the reservation to the person | 2013-12-26 |
20130346120 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing device according to an embodiment includes a user information storing unit that stores, every user, user information and destination information related to a user in association with each other, a determining unit that determines a user corresponding to user information having a specific relation with a cancellation object in the user information storing unit as a user to which the cancellation object is recommended, and a transmitting unit that acquires destination information on the user determined by the determining unit from the user information storing unit, and transmits the information on the cancellation object to a destination according to the destination information. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346121 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARKING RESERVATION AND PAYMENT - An exemplary embodiment includes a method for providing a parking reservation on a computer system. The parking reservation method is embodied in a computer program product for execution on an instruction processing system, comprising a tangible storage medium readable by the instruction processing system is storing instructions for execution by the instruction processing system. The method comprises enabling a customer to purchases a bar-coded pass online for an event, collecting payment for the bar-coded pass, and issuing the bar-coded pass to the customer. The method further comprises updating a current available parking slots inventory for a selected parking lot in the tangible storage medium, and validating the bar-coded pass by scanning the bar-coded pass to verify that the bar-coded pass is valid. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346122 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ILLUSTRATING WHERE A TICKET IS LOCATED IN AN EVENT VENUE - A system accepts event criteria for at least one ticket and at least one event; accepts price criteria for the ticket(s) and the event(s); displays an interactive graphics-based event venue map illustrating a location of all sections at a venue with at least one ticket meeting the event and price criteria; accepts section selection criteria, at least one section being selected from the interactive graphics-based event venue map; displays ticket information to allow a user to drill down to a specific ticket, cause a location of the specific ticket to be displayed in the interactive venue map; and enable a capability to utilize the interactive venue map to choose a section of interest, causing corresponding ticket information to be displayed in the web browsing language. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346123 | RESERVATION METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED PNR HANDLING - A method and system for storing and proposing a list of saved quotes, referred to as “Offers”, together with the PNR. These Offers once created can be communicated to the passenger, so he could access them and make his choice in a cross-channel, interactive dialog with the proposing agent. Standard PNR have been enhanced to accommodate quotations/offers on top of firm bookings. As well as making the search efforts of the user persistent and re-usable, the inclusion of quotation in the PNR makes them accessible via all the distribution channels and gives to this invention a full cross-channel dimension. This new functionality represents as well a huge enhancement in the Travel Agent work flow, since the saving of all the pre-booking activity is now automated and traceable, by the agent himself (for follow-up and confirmation purpose) and eligible for sending to commonly used Mid-Office and reporting systems. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346124 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A COMPATIBLE GROUP TRAVEL ITINERARY - A method and system are provided for determining a group travel destination and compatible travel itinerary for a travel party to travel on a trip together. A unique identifier is created or used by each individual traveler, and each individual traveler is asked a series of hierarchical questions concerning parameters for travel in order to create a profile. Multiple traveler profiles are linked to form a set of travel party data. After further refining and polling a common destination and a common set of travel dates is selected from possible travel dates after a lookup by the system in each travelers individual calendars. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346125 | Methods for Correlating First Mile and Last Mile Product Data - Traceability codes on perishable products facilitate the correlation of product data from the origin of a distribution chain to quality assessments of the perishable products made at points along the distribution chain. The product data is initially associated with the code, the product is marked with the code, and then the product is distributed. Receipt of a code after the perishable product enters the distribution chain establishes an elapsed time. Location information submitted with the code can also establish a traversed distance. A quality assessment submitted with the code can be associated with both time and distance. Consumers, for example, may submit codes, provide assessments and locations, and in return access product data linked to the specific products they consider in retail stores, purchase, and use. Inspectors can likewise submit quality assessments from locations earlier in the distribution chain as well as in retail stores. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346126 | BUSINESS PROCESS DEVELOPMENT - Various embodiments of systems and methods for composing business processes using customized business process elements are described herein. The method involves creating one or more partner-defined business process elements composed of a source business object node and a target business object node. Further, the method includes selecting a type of communication interface between the source business object node and the target business object node based on determining a relative location of the source business object node and the target business object node. In another aspect, the composed one or more business process elements are integrated to form a customized business process. In yet another aspect, the method includes switching business entities to the composed business process based on the partner-defined business process elements and persisting the developed business process in the repository. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346127 | SITE MAPPING SYSTEM HAVING TOOL LOAD MONITORING - A site mapping system for use with a machine having a work tool is disclosed. The site mapping system may have a locating device mountable on the machine and configured to generate a first signal associated with a three-dimensional position of the machine at the site, at least one sensor mountable on the work tool and configured to generate a second signal indicative of a characteristic of material being moved by the work tool, and a controller in communication with the locating device and the at least one sensor. The controller may be configured to determine a composition of the material based on the second signal. The controller may also be configured to update an electronic map of the site based on the composition and the first signal. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346128 | System and Method of Reviewing and Producing Documents - A system and method of providing comprehensive document review, production and reporting is described. The system and method provide a total quality management approach to a document review matter that not only controls costs but increases defensibility of the overall process, thereby reducing risk. The system utilizes unique review and performance metrics, increases quality control, and enhances physical and data security mechanisms. The system of the present invention can be implemented with any document review software or hosted platform desired for use by a customer. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346129 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING AGRICULTURAL FIELD DATA - A system and method for managing the collection and processing of agricultural field data from a single location is provided. The system includes functionality to create workorders for the taking of samples at a predetermined location, transmit the sampling workorders to the equipment or operators at a job site, e.g., an agricultural field, and log the results of a completed sampling workorder. The system also includes functionality to transmit log data related to the taken samples to a laboratory and receive analysis information on the taken samples from the laboratory. The system then combines log data and analysis information on the taken samples for use in determining additional actions at the predetermined location. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346130 | GEOGRAPHICAL CLUSTERING OF SERVICE PROVIDERS - Technology is described for customer exchange, route efficiency determinations, and new customer assignments. The method of customer exchange can include identifying a customer of an originating service provider; assessing a relative proximity of the customer with respect to location; receiving input from the originating service provider regarding their permission to trade the customer; reassigning the customer to the new service provider based on permission of the originating service provider the assessed relative proximity or location; and notifying the new service provider of an exchange of the customer using the processor. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346131 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO COLLECTIONS CYCLE OPTIMIZATION - Methods and systems are provided for an integrated approach to collections cycle optimization including optimizing personnel, communications, and collection resolutions, resulting in reducing the variability of the collections cycle, reducing instances of foreclosure in collections, while increasing borrower satisfaction with the collections process. Candidate loan officers are selected based on behavioral attributes, personnel history, and human resources information, among other factors. Scripts that improve the effectiveness of communication between loan collection staff and borrowers are generated. An optimized collection program to best suit the needs of a particular borrower is determined. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346132 | DAILY ACTIVITY MONITORING - Method comprising determining a user set comprising at least one user entity, determining a manager set comprising at least one manager entity which corresponds to the user set, determining an income goal in a predetermined time period for each said user entity, determining a set of tasks, each task, when performed by an user entity, being worth a corresponding respective percentage of the income goal of said performing user entity, presenting a first user interface enabling an user entity to input one or more descriptions of performance by the user entity of a task, and presenting a second user interface configured to graphically illustrate to the manager entity information describing at least one of task performance by user entities and progress by each said user entity toward the income goal of each said user entity. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346133 | Method for Habit-Making Towards Achieving a Goal - Systems and methods of assisting users achieve goals are provided. A user provides goals to a server, which identifies habits required to achieve the goals. The server monitor's the user's progress towards the goal and sends notifications to the user informing the user of his/her progress and encouraging the user to develop habits towards achieving the goal. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346134 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING AND CONTROLLING PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND INTER-RELATED DECISION MAKING PROCESS - A communication system is provided that includes a plurality of communication devices and a plurality of servers. The servers are communicatively coupled to the communication device and each server hosts a service accessible by the communication devices. One of the servers or at least one of the communication devices may communicate with at least one of the servers and the communication device to monitor communication events related to a project defined for monitoring by user input provided for creating the project for purposes of monitoring the project. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346135 | Method And System For Servicing A Drop Safe - A method of servicing a drop safe. Actual timing and amounts of deposits made to the drop safe are tracked over a predetermined number of historical days. Based on the tracked deposits, the timing and amounts of deposits to the drop safe are predicted for a predetermined number of future days. An optimal day for a carrier to pickup currency held in the drop safe is estimated from the predetermined number of future days. The optimal pickup day is based on: a) the predicted deposits spanning at least some of the predetermined number of future days; b) a currency holding capacity of said drop safe; c) a currency holding cost; d) a currency-in-transit cost; and e) a drop safe service cost. A pickup is arranged with the carrier on at least the one optimal pickup day. A system, and a computer readable medium carrying computer readable instructions for carrying out the method are also disclosed. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346136 | Services Sales Cockpit - A method, a system, and computer-readable medium for processing of data are disclosed. At least one customer requirement concerning at least one business process and at least one customer requirement concerning at least one non-business process related activity are determined. A mapping of determined customer requirements to at least one available service is generated. Mapped customer requirements and available services are mapped into a project. A pricing for the project is generated. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346137 | PARTICIPATORY METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Provided herein are a methods and a system for implementing a participatory mechanism for selecting of applications, overseeing implementation and progress of projects, monitoring and evaluation of completed projects. The method provides a mechanism for managing projects which involve flexible and hard to quantify outcomes. The method provides a mechanism for managing long-term projects of variable length that require long-term monitoring. The method provides a mechanism for managing projects where human input is essential. The method provides a mechanism to handle a large number of applications for a large number of projects. The method provides a rational method for managing a large number of projects with a large diversity (e.g., hard to replicate projects.) | 2013-12-26 |
20130346138 | CREATION OF PRODUCTION PROCESS WORKFLOW DIAGRAMS - A method and system for creating production process workflow diagrams are disclosed. The system stores a graphic representation of a production facility. When a user request for a workflow diagram is received, and the request includes a time frame, a route is determined between all resources having at least one time stamp that is within the time frame. The graphic representation of the facility may be displayed, along with a graphic representation of the determined route. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346139 | FACILITATING REVENUE GENERATION FROM WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKETS BASED ON A SELF-TUNING ENERGY ASSET MODEL - The apparatus, systems and methods herein facilitate generation of energy-related revenue for an energy customer of an electricity supplier. The apparatuses and methods herein can be used to generate suggested operating schedules for the energy assets that including a controllable energy asset, using an objective function. The objective function is determined based on a dynamic simulation model of the energy profile of the energy assets. The dynamic simulation model is adaptive to physical changes in the energy assets based on a parametric estimation using at least one model parameter. The model parameter is at least one of an operation characteristic of the controllable energy asset, a thermodynamic property of the energy assets, and a projected environmental condition. Energy-related revenue available to the energy customer is based at least in part on a wholesale electricity market or on a regulation market. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346140 | HIGH-LOAD BUSINESS PROCESS SCALABILITY - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing high-load business process scalability in cloud-based infrastructures. One process includes operations for receiving a message at a first computer node executing a first business process instance. A second business process instance associated with the message is identified. The message is sent to a messaging queue for retrieval by the second business process instance if the second business process instance is not located at the first computer node. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346141 | WORKFLOW MODELING WITH WORKETS AND TRANSITIONS - A computer is used to generate an approximation of a workflow in terms of worklets and transitions. Each worklet represents a phase of work in the workflow. Each transition indicates conditions for completion of a worklet. Each worklet includes at least one assistlet having executable code that will be executed for approximating of its work phase. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346142 | INTERNET TRANSACTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - An internet transaction analysis system and method are disclosed. The system comprises a processing unit and a data communication arrangement, the processing unit being arranged to receive, via the data communication arrangement, data on a transaction, the transaction being associated with internet activity at a remote user terminal, the processing unit being arranged to apply a plurality of checks to the data on the transaction, generate a value for a risk metric in dependence on the results of the checks and cause an indicator on the relative risk of the transaction to be output at the user terminal, the indicator of the relative risk being determined in dependence on the value for the risk metric. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346143 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEND ANALYSIS OF THE SERVICE CATEGORY - A computer based system containing Service Cost Model for spend analysis of spend category, which facilitates analysis of the service procurement cost with respect to market dynamics of labor rates for the underlying services; the system determines market trend of individual cost components i.e., primary, secondary and tertiary cost components for a service spend category based on Service Cost Model of spend analyzer module; the system comprises: a processor unit and a computer readable medium storing instructions executable by the processor unit, the computer readable medium comprising: Service Receiving System; Matching System; Associating System; Information Receiving System; and Outputting System. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346144 | TECHNIQUE AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING VIDEO AND DIALOG TO BUILD VIEWING CONTEXT - A media processing device may include a processing component and a viewing context builder operative on the processing component. The viewing context builder may analyze media content comprising an audio stream, a video stream, and/or a closed captioning stream from a selected channel; extract context relevant data from the analyzed media content; and build a viewing preference profile from the context relevant data. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346145 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A communication device that is capable of reducing ineffectual process and load by checking continuity of a SIP session depending on whether a network charges a fee or not. The communication device communicates with another communication device by a predetermined communication protocol. A determination unit determines whether a network used for communication charges a fee or not. A checking unit checks whether the communication continues when the determination unit determines that the network charges a fee. A communication control unit finishes the communication when the checking unit determines that the communication does not continue. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346146 | Universal Customer Based Information and Ontology Platform for Business Information and Innovation Management - A system may include a search engine coupled to an Outcome Driven Innovation (ODI) repository. The system may include a segmentation engine having segmentation tools that segments a market using segmentation tools. A metadata engine may tag and bundle data records algorithmically, append meta-data associated with business information (BI) to data records, facilitate portfolio optimization decisions, facilitate capturing relationships between different records and record types, and facilitate calculation, ranking, analysis, and reporting of opportunity scores. A strategy engine may include strategic tools for pulling in data from various sources, visualizing, interacting with, capturing and synthesizing insights so as to facilitate strategic planning. An extract, transform, load (ETL) engine may extract data from outside sources, transform the data to fit operational requirements, and load the transformed data into to ODI data repository. | 2013-12-26 |
20130346147 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF A USER WITHIN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for determining a relative importance of a user within a network environment are disclosed. Interaction information pertaining to a plurality of interactions in an network environment may be received over a period of time. One or more relational actions may be identified among a plurality of users in the network environment based on the interaction information. A relative importance of at least one of the plurality of users in the network environment may be determined. A portion of a financial consideration may be assigned to each user based on the relative importance of the user. | 2013-12-26 |