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20140040805 | CHART GENERATION BASED ON USER CONTROL INFERENCES - In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, for each of a number of user interface controls, selections by a user of at least one of exactly one value, a subset of values, all values, and no values. The selections by the user define non-chart-related settings, The method includes inferring intent of the user of at least one attribute of a chart based on the selections by the user via the number of user interface controls. The method includes defining at least one characteristic of the chart for displaying the chart based on the intent. | 02-06-2014 |
20150066827 | Method of Using Graphical Index Maps to Provide Automated Relationship Discovery and Impact Analyses - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for understanding and discovering relationships within infrastructure systems via an infrastructure management system. In certain embodiments, the infrastructure systems comprise water and/or transportation systems. Such an infrastructure management system enables accidents to be prevented, traffic to flow normally, water to be conserved, cleaned and delivered safely. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067569 | Method of Using Graphical Index Maps to Provide Automated Relationship Discovery and Impact Analyses - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for understanding and discovering relationships within infrastructure systems via an infrastructure management system. In certain embodiments, the infrastructure systems comprise water and/or transportation systems. Such an infrastructure management system enables accidents to be prevented, traffic to flow normally, water to be conserved, cleaned and delivered safely. | 03-05-2015 |
20150081377 | DYNAMIC PRICING FOR FINANCIAL PRODUCTS - An aspect of product pricing includes classifying customers into groups based on shared, predefined characteristics and financial transactions, and identifying services rendered and available but not rendered. For each customer, a risk associated with a service is estimated; availability and prices of the service by third parties are determined; a price for the service set by the entity is compared with the prices set by the third parties; and a demand for the service of the entity is estimated as a function of the availability and prices of the service by the third parties. For each customer, a probability that the customer will purchase the service is estimated based on the demand, and a price for the service that is customized for the customer is calculated, as a function of the risk, the demand, and the probability of purchase, and in view of a target profit and/or target revenue. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081378 | TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT UPDATE ALARM - Embodiments relate to a transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) update alarm. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data is accessed, along with economic data from an external data source. A TRDL alarm analytics model is applied to the customer data and the economic data to predict a number of transactions in a specified time period that are expected to exceed a TRDL. The TRDL alarm analytics model takes into account a payment transaction pattern associated with the customer. A threshold value is compared to the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL. An increase in the TRDL is requested to be applied at least during the specified time period based on the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL being greater than the threshold value. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081388 | CUSTOMER SELECTION FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - An aspect of customer selection processes includes classifying, by a computer processor, customers of an entity into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics among the customers. For each of the groups: services rendered for corresponding customers are identified; for each of the services rendered, a risk relationship and a reward relationship between each of the corresponding customers and the service is determined; and for each of the services rendered, a score that defines a combination of the risk relationship and the reward relationship is calculated. For each of the services rendered by the entity, the corresponding score is applied to a candidate customer having a set of characteristics matching the characteristics of one of the groups, and the service is offered to the candidate customer as a function of the score. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081390 | CUSTOMER SELECTION FOR SERVICE OFFERINGS - An aspect of customer selection processes includes classifying, by a computer processor, customers of an entity into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics among the customers. For each of the groups: services rendered for corresponding customers are identified; for each of the services rendered, a risk relationship and a reward relationship between each of the corresponding customers and the service is determined; and for each of the services rendered, a score that defines a combination of the risk relationship and the reward relationship is calculated. For each of the services rendered by the entity, the corresponding score is applied to a candidate customer having a set of characteristics matching the characteristics of one of the groups, and the service is offered to the candidate customer as a function of the score. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081391 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES - An aspect of product recommendation processes includes classifying customers into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics and common financial transaction activities conducted. For each service offered, the product recommendation processes include estimating a cost of recommendation of the service; and estimating, for each of the customers in a group, a transaction risk of providing the service. For each group, the product recommendation processes include: identifying services available that are not rendered; estimating, based on economic health data associated with the corresponding customers, a probability of an acceptance by the corresponding customers of an offer for available services; estimating a profit based on historical profit data acquired from results of rendering the service to the customers of the group; and selecting a subset of the available services to offer the customers as a function of the cost of recommendation, the transaction risk, the probability of acceptance, and estimated profit. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081481 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN AUTOMATED RECONCILIATION OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Embodiments relate to analytics-driven automated reconciliation of financial transactions. External information is correlated with a plurality of financial transaction reconciliation exceptions associated with a sequence of financial transactions over a period of time. A plurality of causal factors is identified from the external information associated with a pattern of the financial transaction reconciliation exceptions. A plurality of more recent financial transactions is monitored for the causal factors. An exception prediction alert is issued based on identifying the causal factors in the more recent financial transactions prior to detecting a new financial transaction reconciliation exception associated with the more recent financial transactions. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081482 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN AUTOMATED RECONCILIATION OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Embodiments relate to analytics-driven automated reconciliation of financial transactions. External information is correlated with a plurality of financial transaction reconciliation exceptions associated with a sequence of financial transactions over a period of time. A plurality of causal factors is identified from the external information associated with a pattern of the financial transaction reconciliation exceptions. A plurality of more recent financial transactions is monitored for the causal factors. An exception prediction alert is issued based on identifying the causal factors in the more recent financial transactions prior to detecting a new financial transaction reconciliation exception associated with the more recent financial transactions. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081483 | INTRADAY CASH FLOW OPTIMIZATION - Embodiments relate to intraday cash flow optimization. Transactions are accessed on a business-to-business integration network from a plurality of sources linked with payment delivery system data from a financial service system. The transactions are associated with two or more compartmentalized entities. The transactions are characterizes based on the payment delivery system data and an analysis of customer profile data. The transactions associated with two or more compartmentalized entities are linked as integrated information based on the characterizing of the transactions. An intraday receivables prediction engine and an intraday payables prediction engine are applied to the integrated information to produce an estimation of intraday cash flow. The estimation of intraday cash flow is monitored relative to intraday operations optimization conditions. An alert is generated based on determining that at least one of the intraday operations optimization conditions is met. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081491 | INTRADAY CASH FLOW OPTIMIZATION - Embodiments relate to intraday cash flow optimization. Transactions are accessed on a business-to-business integration network from a plurality of sources linked with payment delivery system data from a financial service system. The transactions are associated with two or more compartmentalized entities. The transactions are characterizes based on the payment delivery system data and an analysis of customer profile data. The transactions associated with two or more compartmentalized entities are linked as integrated information based on the characterizing of the transactions. An intraday receivables prediction engine and an intraday payables prediction engine are applied to the integrated information to produce an estimation of intraday cash flow. The estimation of intraday cash flow is monitored relative to intraday operations optimization conditions. An alert is generated based on determining that at least one of the intraday operations optimization conditions is met. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081492 | TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT UPDATE ALARM - Embodiments relate to a transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) update alarm. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data is accessed, along with economic data from an external data source. A TRDL alarm analytics model is applied to the customer data and the economic data to predict a number of transactions in a specified time period that are expected to exceed a TRDL. The TRDL alarm analytics model takes into account a payment transaction pattern associated with the customer. A threshold value is compared to the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL. An increase in the TRDL is requested to be applied at least during the specified time period based on the number of transactions in the specified time period that are expected to exceed the TRDL being greater than the threshold value. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081519 | DYNAMIC PRICING FOR FINANCIAL PRODUCTS - An aspect of product pricing includes classifying customers into groups based on shared, predefined characteristics and financial transactions, and identifying services rendered and available but not rendered. For each customer, a risk associated with a service is estimated; availability and prices of the service by third parties are determined; a price for the service set by the entity is compared with the prices set by the third parties; and a demand for the service of the entity is estimated as a function of the availability and prices of the service by the third parties. For each customer, a probability that the customer will purchase the service is estimated based on the demand, and a price for the service that is customized for the customer is calculated, as a function of the risk, the demand, and the probability of purchase, and in view of a target profit and/or target revenue. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081520 | ANALYTICS-DRIVEN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES - An aspect of product recommendation processes includes classifying customers into groups based on commonly shared, predefined characteristics and common financial transaction activities conducted. For each service offered, the product recommendation processes include estimating a cost of recommendation of the service; and estimating, for each of the customers in a group, a transaction risk of providing the service. For each group, the product recommendation processes include: identifying services available that are not rendered; estimating, based on economic health data associated with the corresponding customers, a probability of an acceptance by the corresponding customers of an offer for available services; estimating a profit based on historical profit data acquired from results of rendering the service to the customers of the group; and selecting a subset of the available services to offer the customers as a function of the cost of recommendation, the transaction risk, the probability of acceptance, and estimated profit. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081523 | ANALYTICS DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMITS - Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limits (TRDLs). Customer data that includes historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with a customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network. A TRDL assessment model is applied, by a processor, to the customer data and the economic data to generate a TRDL for the customer. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081524 | ANALYTICS DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT EXCEPTIONS - Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) exceptions. A transaction that includes a request to make a payment from an account associated with a customer is received and it is determined that processing the payment will result in exceeding a TRDL. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with the customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network from an external data source. A TRDL exception assessment model is applied, by the processor, to the transaction, the customer data, and the economic data to generate an approval recommendation for the request and a confidence level associated with the approval recommendation. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081542 | ANALYTICS DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMITS - Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limits (TRDLs). Customer data that includes historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with a customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network. A TRDL assessment model is applied, by a processor, to the customer data and the economic data to generate a TRDL for the customer. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081543 | ANALYTICS DRIVEN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSACTIONAL RISK DAILY LIMIT EXCEPTIONS - Embodiments relate to analytics driven assessment of transactional risk daily limit (TRDL) exceptions. A transaction that includes a request to make a payment from an account associated with a customer is received and it is determined that processing the payment will result in exceeding a TRDL. Customer data including historical transaction data and customer profile data associated with the customer is accessed by a processor. Economic data from an external data source is accessed via a network from an external data source. A TRDL exception assessment model is applied, by the processor, to the transaction, the customer data, and the economic data to generate an approval recommendation for the request and a confidence level associated with the approval recommendation. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081563 | PRIVACY PRESERVING CONTENT ANALYSIS - Embodiments relate to privacy preserving content analysis. A recoverable hash operation is performed on text information to produce hashed text information in a business-to-business system. The business-to-business system includes a business-to-business transaction gateway coupled to a plurality of enterprise computer systems. A non-recoverable hash operation is performed on numerical information to produce hashed numerical information in the business-to-business system. The hashed text information and the hashed numerical information are provided from the business-to-business transaction gateway to an analytics engine to perform encrypted content analysis. The text information and the numerical information are provided from one of the enterprise computer systems as a producer system to another of the enterprise computer systems as a consumer system through the business-to-business transaction gateway. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081564 | PRIVACY PRESERVING CONTENT ANALYSIS - Embodiments relate to privacy preserving content analysis. A recoverable hash operation is performed on text information to produce hashed text information in a business-to-business system. The business-to-business system includes a business-to-business transaction gateway coupled to a plurality of enterprise computer systems. A non-recoverable hash operation is performed on numerical information to produce hashed numerical information in the business-to-business system. The hashed text information and the hashed numerical information are provided from the business-to-business transaction gateway to an analytics engine to perform encrypted content analysis. The text information and the numerical information are provided from one of the enterprise computer systems as a producer system to another of the enterprise computer systems as a consumer system through the business-to-business transaction gateway. | 03-19-2015 |
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20120296261 | DELIVERY DEVICE AND DELIVERY METHODS - Various delivery devices and methods are disclosed, including a delivery device ( | 11-22-2012 |
20130274666 | NEEDLE SAFETY ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING IT - The invention refers to an auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M), the auto-injector having a distal end (P) and a proximal end (D) with an orifice intended to be applied against an injection site and comprising:
| 10-17-2013 |
20130289492 | Auto-Injector - The invention refers to an auto-injector comprising an elongate housing, a syringe with a hollow injection needle and a stopper, wherein the syringe is arranged in a syringe carrier slidably with respect to the housing,
| 10-31-2013 |
20130296794 | NEEDLE SAFETY ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING IT - The invention refers to a needle safety arrangement for protecting a hollow injection needle of a syringe after an injection, the needle safety arrangement comprising:
| 11-07-2013 |
20130296795 | Auto-Injector - The invention refers to a shuttering mechanism for controlling translation of a longitudinally moveable component within an elongate housing, the shuttering mechanism comprising at least one set of castellations on the housing and at least one resilient arm associated with the longitudinally moveable component, the resilient arm having a dog resiliently biased towards the castellations so as to engage between or behind the castellations and block the translation, wherein a respective shutter arm is arranged alongside the set of castellations, the shutter arm having a number of consecutive ramped protrusions spaced from each other, wherein the castellations and the ramped protrusions have the same pitch, wherein a profiled surface is formed by the castellations and the ramped protrusions, wherein the shutter arm is moveable in longitudinal direction with respect to the set of castellations, wherein the shutter arm has at least one locking position with its ramped protrusions essentially in phase with the castellations thus allowing the dog of the resilient arm to catch between or behind the castellations and wherein the shutter arm has at least one unlocking position with its ramped protrusions out of phase with the castellations in such a manner that the ramped protrusions prevent the dog from engaging with the castellations or disengage them thus allowing translation of the longitudinally moveable component. | 11-07-2013 |
20130317449 | FINGER GUARD FOR AN INJECTION DEVICE - The invention refers to a finger guard for an injection device with a hollow injection needle arranged to be hidden inside a component with an orifice prior to use and to be advanced relative to the component through the orifice for inserting it into an injection site, the finger guard comprising a spring wire attached to the component and comprising an arcuate transversal section biased in a manner to flex inwards so as to essentially obstruct the orifice for finger access when released but staying enough off-centre to allow the needle to advance through the orifice without touching the spring wire. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317450 | Auto-Injector - The invention refers to a shuttering mechanism ( | 11-28-2013 |
20160106923 | Injection Device - An Injection device for administering a dose of liquid medicament to patient comprises—a syringe containing the dose of medicament—a hollow injection needle adapted to penetrate skin of the patient, —a stopper translatably disposed within syringe, —a plunger connectable to stopper and translatable in at least a proximal direction to displace stopper in the proximal direction and—a releasable noise component capable of, upon release, generating an audible and/or tactile feedback. The proximal displacement of stopper causes the dose of the medicament to be expelled through the hollow injection needle. The noise component is released when the plunger reaches a position relative to the syringe in which stopper is located in proximity of a proximal end of the syringe. The released noise component impacts on at least one component of the injection device to generate the audible and/or tactile feedback indicating the end of the injection. | 04-21-2016 |
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20130204199 | AUTO-INJECTOR - The invention refers to an auto-injector for administering a medicament (M), comprising of a chassis, a syringe with a hollow needle and a stopper; a drive spring capable of, upon activation: advancing the needle ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130261558 | AUTO-INJECTOR - An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) comprises of a substantially cylindrical housing arranged to contain a pre-filled syringe with an injection needle, a plunger and a stopper for sealing a syringe barrel and a drive means releasably coupled to the plunger for advancing the syringe in the proximal direction (P) for needle insertion into an injection site and for displacing the dose of medicament (M) into the injection site. The drive means is arranged to be decoupled from the plunger for advancing a needle shroud to a safe position (PS) to surround the injection needle after the injection. According to the invention, the drive means bears against a thrust collar arranged to be releasably coupled to the plunger through a ramped engagement of a first tongue and a first recess so as to rotate the thrust collar on translation in proximal direction (P). At least one longitudinal gap (G | 10-03-2013 |
20130296796 | Auto-Injector - The invention refers to an auto-injector for delivering a liquid medicament, comprising:
| 11-07-2013 |
20130310744 | DETENT MECHANISM - The invention relates to a detent mechanism for controlling translation between two components in a longitudinal direction (P, D), the detent mechanism comprising at least one clip on one of the components arranged to be in a ramped engagement with a recess in the other one of the components in an initial state in such a manner that translation between the components is constrained and that application of a translative force between the components in one longitudinal direction (P, D) with the clip engaged with the recess deflects the clip out of the recess when a predetermined value of the translative force, at least depending on the resilience of the clip, is overcome so as to allow translation between the components. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310757 | AUTO-INJECTOR - An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) is presented having an elongate case, a carrier subassembly comprising a tubular carrier slidably arranged inside the case, where the carrier adapted to contain a syringe with a hollow injection needle. The injector also has, a drive spring and a plunger for forwarding load of the drive spring to a stopper of the syringe, wherein the syringe is lockable for joint axial translation with the carrier. A control spring is arranged around the carrier for translating the carrier in a proximal direction (P) for advancing the needle beyond a proximal end of the auto-injector, and a trigger button is used for releasing the control spring on actuation. | 11-21-2013 |
20130317427 | AUTO-INJECTOR - An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) is presented having an elongate case arranged to be held by a user, a tubular chassis telescoped in the case and biased against the case so as to protrude from the case. The injector also includes a syringe with a hollow injection needle, a drive spring and a plunger for forwarding load of the drive spring to a stopper of the syringe. A trigger button is distally arranged in or on the case, wherein the trigger button is initially coupled to the case in a manner to protrude distally from the case and interlocked to the chassis in a manner preventing the trigger button from disengaging the case. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317428 | AUTO-INJECTOR - An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) is presented having a tubular chassis telescopable in an elongate chassis, a carrier subassembly comprising a tubular carrier slidably arranged partially inside the chassis and inside the case, where the carrier is adapted to contain a syringe with a hollow injection needle, a drive spring and a plunger for forwarding load of the drive spring to a stopper of the syringe, wherein the syringe is lockable for joint axial translation with the carrier. The auto-injector also has a control spring arranged around the carrier, a needle insertion control mechanism for coupling a proximal end of the control spring to either the carrier for advancing it for needle insertion or to the chassis, wherein the needle insertion control mechanism comprises a first collar biased by the control spring in a proximal direction (P), wherein at least one fifth clip is arranged on one of the chassis or the first collar initially abutting a block on the other of the chassis or the first collar. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317430 | AUTO-INJECTOR - An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) is present having a tubular chassis telescopable in a tubular case, a carrier subassembly comprising a tubular carrier slidably arranged relative to the chassis inside the case, where the carrier is adapted to contain a syringe with a hollow injection needle. The injector also has a drive spring and a plunger for forwarding load of the drive spring to a stopper of the syringe, wherein the syringe is lockable for joint axial translation with the carrier. A control spring is arranged around the carrier for translating the carrier in a proximal direction (P) for insertion of the needle through the chassis into an injection site. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317479 | AUTO-INJECTOR - An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament is presented that has a tubular chassis telescopable in a tubular case, a carrier subassembly comprising a tubular carrier slidably arranged relative to the chassis inside the case, where the carrier adapted to contain a syringe with a hollow injection needle. The injector has a drive spring and a plunger for forwarding load of the drive spring to a stopper of the syringe, wherein the syringe is lockable for joint axial translation with the carrier. There is also a trigger button arranged distally or laterally in or on the case, a control spring arranged around the carrier, and a needle extension control mechanism for coupling a proximal end of the control spring to either the carrier for advancing it for needle extension or to the chassis for needle retraction depending on the relative axial position of the carrier and the chassis. | 11-28-2013 |
20130324924 | Auto-Injector - The invention relates to an auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament, comprising:
| 12-05-2013 |
20130324925 | Auto-Injector - The invention relates to an auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament, comprising:
| 12-05-2013 |
20130324935 | Auto-Injector - The invention relates to an auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament, comprising:
| 12-05-2013 |
20130324938 | Detent Mechanism - The invention relates to a detent mechanism for controlling translation between two components in a longitudinal direction, the detent mechanism comprising a resilient beam on one of the components and a rhomboid ramp member on the other component, the resilient beam being essentially straight when relaxed and having a first beam head and arranged to interact in a ramped engagement with respectively one of two ramps, each ramp on one longitudinal side of the rhomboid ramp member in such a manner that application of a translative force between the components in one longitudinal direction with the first beam head engaged to one of the ramps in a first state deflects the resilient beam in one transversal direction when a predetermined value of the translative force, at least depending on the resilience of the resilient beam, is overcome so as to allow the first beam head to travel along one transversal side of the rhomboid ramp member on continued relative translation of the components, wherein the resilient beam is allowed to relax when the first beam head has reached the other one of the ramps in a second state, wherein application of a translative force between the components in the other longitudinal direction with the first beam head engaged to the other one of the ramps deflects the resilient beam in the other transversal direction when a predetermined value of the translative force, at least depending on the resilience of the resilient beam, is overcome so as to allow the first beam head to travel along the other transversal side of the rhomboid ramp member on continued relative translation of the components. | 12-05-2013 |
20130324939 | Injection Device - An Injection device for administering a dose of a liquid medicament to a patient comprises
| 12-05-2013 |
20140243751 | AUTO-INJECTOR - Described is an injection device for administering a dose of a medicament comprising a case having a proximal end and a distal end, a carrier adapted to accommodate a syringe, and a trigger button. In a first state, the trigger button is coupled to the case and/or the carrier and abuts the distal end of the case. In an intermediate state, the case moves proximally relative to the carrier and the trigger button, and the trigger button engages the carrier. In a second state, the trigger button and the carrier move proximally relative to the case, and the trigger button disengages the carrier and engages the case. | 08-28-2014 |
20140336578 | Auto-Injector - Described is an injection device for administering a dose of a medicament (M) comprising a carrier adapted to contain a syringe having a hollow injection needle and a stopper, a drive spring, a plunger adapted to forward load of the drive spring to the stopper, and a noise component adapted to generate an audible and/or tactile feedback by impacting a component of the injection device when the stopper is located at a proximal end of the syringe. In a first state, a resilient arm on the plunger is maintained in engagement with the noise component by the carrier. In a second state, the arm disengages the noise component and deflects at least partially into an aperture in the carrier. | 11-13-2014 |