03rd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 44 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130018616 | FREQUENCY COUNTERAANM CHOU; MING-HUNGAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP CHOU; MING-HUNG TAIPEI CITY TWAANM WANG; NAI-JIANAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP WANG; NAI-JIAN TAIPEI CITY TWAANM HSIEH; CHING-FENGAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP HSIEH; CHING-FENG TAIPEI CITY TW - A frequency counter obtains a cycle number of a clock of a target signal by a reference signal and a clock mask synchronous with the target signal, calculates a frequency of the target signal based on the cycle number, corrects the frequency according to a plurality of phase shift signals generated based on the reference signal, and minimizes an error of the calculated frequency by increasing the quantity of the phase shift signals, so as to enhance the accuracy of the calculated frequency of the target signal, speed up measurement, and reduce required circuit areas. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018617 | INTEGRATING MANUFACTURING FEEDBACK INTO INTEGRATED CIRCUIT STRUCTURE DESIGNAANM Buck; Nathan C.AACI UnderhillAAST VTAACO USAAGP Buck; Nathan C. Underhill VT USAANM Dreibelbis; Brian M.AACI UnderhillAAST VTAACO USAAGP Dreibelbis; Brian M. Underhill VT USAANM Dubuque; John P.AACI JerichoAAST VTAACO USAAGP Dubuque; John P. Jericho VT USAANM Foreman; Eric A.AACI FairfaxAAST VTAACO USAAGP Foreman; Eric A. Fairfax VT USAANM Habitz; Peter A.AACI HinesburgAAST VTAACO USAAGP Habitz; Peter A. Hinesburg VT USAANM Hemmett; Jeffrey G.AACI St. GeorgeAAST VTAACO USAAGP Hemmett; Jeffrey G. St. George VT USAANM Venkateswaran; NatesanAACI Hopewell JunctionAAST NYAACO USAAGP Venkateswaran; Natesan Hopewell Junction NY USAANM Visweswariah; ChandramouliAACI Croton-on-HudsonAAST NYAACO USAAGP Visweswariah; Chandramouli Croton-on-Hudson NY USAANM Wang; XiaoyueAACI KanataAACO CAAAGP Wang; Xiaoyue Kanata CAAANM Zolotov; VladmimirAACI Putnam ValleyAAST NYAACO USAAGP Zolotov; Vladmimir Putnam Valley NY US - Solutions for integrating manufacturing feedback into an integrated circuit design are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed including: defining an acceptable yield requirement for a first integrated circuit product; obtaining manufacturing data about the first integrated circuit product; performing a regression analysis on data representing paths in the first integrated circuit product to define a plurality of parameter settings based upon the acceptable yield requirement and the manufacturing data; determining a projection corner associated with the parameter settings for satisfying the acceptable yield requirement; and modifying a design of a second integrated circuit product based upon the projection corner and the plurality of parameter settings. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED QUALITY CONTROL PLATFORM - A method and system for performing automated quality control analysis of a plurality of radiopharmaceuticals are provided. The method includes uniquely identifying each of the plurality of radiopharmaceuticals, and identifying and implementing a tailored quality control program for each of the radiopharmaceuticals. The method further includes automatically performing a plurality of selected quality control tests for each of the radiopharmaceuticals based on the tailored quality control program, and collecting information produced by the plurality of selected quality control tests. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018619 | PHYSICAL QUANTITY DETECTION APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD OF PHYSICAL QUANTITY DETECTION APPARATUSAANM HARA; TetsuyaAACI Kariya-cityAACO JPAAGP HARA; Tetsuya Kariya-city JPAANM Kubota; TakamitsuAACI Chiryu-cityAACO JPAAGP Kubota; Takamitsu Chiryu-city JP - A physical quantity detection apparatus includes a signal output section, a correction value calculation section, and a processing section. The signal output section outputs signals in accordance with a change in physical quantity of a detected object. The correction value calculation section calculates a correction value. The processing section corrects values based on actual output values of the signal output section with the correction value, calculates physical quantities of the detected object based on corrected values, and outputs calculated physical quantities. The correction value calculation section calculates the correction value based on primary error amounts that are differences between post-interpolation actual output values calculated by executing a linear function interpolation process to the values based on the actual output values within a predetermined physical quantity range and the values based on the actual output values corresponding to the post-interpolation actual output values. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018620 | Method And System For Time Synchronization Of Phase Of Signals From Respective Measurement Devices - According to the invention, a time synchronization of phase between measurement devices that do not share a same clock for their respective sampling of the signals is carried out by a time tagging of samples of the signals in time blocks followed by an adjustment of the phase values of components of interest of the signals in the regrouped time blocks so that the values refer to common time references between the measurement devices. The tagging is carried out with a synchronization signal available to the measurement devices, completed with count values provided by a counter operated by a reference clock for each measurement device. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018621 | Dynamic Range Improvement For Mass SpectrometryAANM Telasang; ShankarAACI FremontAAST CAAACO USAAGP Telasang; Shankar Fremont CA US - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods of controlling an ion detector to minimize false peaks when utilizing extended dynamic range techniques. In one exemplary example, methods of controlling an ion detector are provided, comprising the steps of: determining an electronic baseline signal of the ion detector; receiving one or more ion input signals at the ion detector; comparing the ion input signal to the electronic baseline signal; and multiplying the ion input signal by a selected compensation factor when the ion input signal exceeds the electronic baseline signal. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018622 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF A DTV PILOT TONE IN A HIGH NOISE ENVIRONMENTAANM Samarasooriya; VajiraAACI OttawaAACO CAAAGP Samarasooriya; Vajira Ottawa CAAANM Payer; DanielAACI RocklandAACO CAAAGP Payer; Daniel Rockland CAAANM Wight; James S.AACI OttawaAACO CAAAGP Wight; James S. Ottawa CA - A DTV pilot tone is detected in a noisy environment by computing a power average of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) output spectra of a received signal, finding a power peak in the averaged outputs, computing an adjustment parameter to center the power peak in a Discrete Fourier Transform bin of the averaged output spectra, applying the adjustment parameter to adjust the received signal, computing a coherent average of FFT output spectra of the adjusted signal, and, testing a power spectrum of the coherent average for the presence of the DTV pilot tone. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018623 | High Resolution, High Speed Multi-Frequency Dynamic Study of Visco-Elastic Properites - The present invention provides an apparatus and method including hardware and software, which allows collecting and analyzing of data to obtain information about mechanical properties of soft materials. This allows surface mapping of viscoelastic properties in a high-resolution and fast manner. It also allows finding the degree of nonlinearity of the material response of the sample during the measurements. The apparatus can be used as a stand-alone device, or an add-on to either the existing atomic force microscope or nanoindenter device. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018624 | System For Manufacturing CablesAANM Bhatnagar; AnujAACI SunnyvaleAAST CAAACO USAAGP Bhatnagar; Anuj Sunnyvale CA USAANM McPeak; James L.AACI FremontAAST CAAACO USAAGP McPeak; James L. Fremont CA US - During manufacturing, devices under test may be tested at test stations. Test cables may be used to couple the test stations to the devices under test. To ensure that cables have been assembled properly, a test system may be used to convey test data through the cables. Status indictors in the cables can be activated using the test data. The test system may include a test board for performing loop-back tests. During testing, test data may be transmitted through the cable to the test board. The test board may convert the test data from a first format such as a Universal Serial Bus format to a second format such as a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter format. Test signals that have been received by the test board may be sent back to the cable to direct the cable to activate the status indicators. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018625 | APPLIANCE MONITORING SYSTEM - An apparatus and associated method are generally directed to a system of monitoring an appliance. Various embodiments can have a number of appliance subsystems with real and imaginary current associated therewith. The operating characteristics of each appliance subsystem may be learned by monitoring the real and imaginary current associated with each appliance subsystem over time, and operating profiles can be derived therefrom. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018626 | NON-CONTACT TYPE TEMPERATURE SENSING DEVICE WITH CONSTANT DISTANCE MEASUREMENT AND TEMPERATURE MEASURING METHOD THEREOFAANM CHI; Yu-ChiaoAACI TaipeiAACO TWAAGP CHI; Yu-Chiao Taipei TWAANM CHEN; Chiung-HsienAACI TaipeiAACO TWAAGP CHEN; Chiung-Hsien Taipei TW - A non-contact type temperature sensing device includes an emitting unit, a detecting unit and a single chip microprocessor. The emitting unit emits a signal to a temperature-measured body. The detecting unit receiving a reflected signal emitted by the emitting unit and reflected by the temperature-measured body. The single chip microprocessor is electrically connected to the emitting unit and the detecting unit. The single chip microprocessor determines a measuring distance between non-contact type temperature sensing device and the temperature-measured body according to the reflected signal. When the measuring distance is located within a preset measuring range, the single chip microprocessor outputs an enabling signal of measuring temperature. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING SPEEDAANM CHOU; MING-HUNGAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP CHOU; MING-HUNG TAIPEI CITY TWAANM HSIEH; CHING-FENGAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP HSIEH; CHING-FENG TAIPEI CITY TW - A method for measuring speed involves calculating and measuring speed of an object based on a distance and a time obtained by a method for measuring distance and a method for measuring time, respectively. The time between distance measuring sessions is obtained using the cycle number of a reference signal based on a clock mask synchronous with the distance measuring sessions. The time is corrected according to a plurality of phase shift signals generated based on the reference signal. An error of the time is minimized by increasing the quantity of the phase shift signals. The method enhances the accuracy of the measured time between distance measuring sessions, speeds up speed measurement, and reduces the required circuit areas. A system for measuring speed is further introduced for use with the method. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018628 | METHODS AND DEVICES TO DETERMINE A MOBILE DEVICE HOUSING POSITIONAANM Parco; Adam LouisAACI KitchenerAACO CAAAGP Parco; Adam Louis Kitchener CAAANM Holbein; Marc E.AACI KitchenerAACO CAAAGP Holbein; Marc E. Kitchener CAAANM Almalki; NazihAACI WaterlooAACO CAAAGP Almalki; Nazih Waterloo CAAANM Snow; Christopher HarrisAACI KitchenerAACO CAAAGP Snow; Christopher Harris Kitchener CA - Methods and devices to determine a mobile device housing position are described. An example device disclosed herein includes a housing having a first portion movably coupled to a second portion, the second portion to have a first position, a second position, and at least one intermediate position relative to the first portion, wherein the intermediate position is between the first and second positions; a position detector in the first portion, the position detector to measure a transitional magnetic field when the second portion is in the intermediate position and to measure a second magnetic field; and a processor to determine that the second portion is in the first position or the second position based on the transitional magnetic field and the second magnetic field. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018629 | CROWD SOURCING BASED ON DEAD RECKONINGAANM Sidhu; Gursharan S.AACI SeattleAAST WAAACO USAAGP Sidhu; Gursharan S. Seattle WA USAANM Agarwal; SharadAACI SeattleAAST WAAACO USAAGP Agarwal; Sharad Seattle WA US - An identification is made as to when a device is at an anchor location, which can be a proximity zone along an edge of a dead zone or a location where a signal from a beacon is detected. In response to the device being at an anchor location, recording of crowd sourcing data based on dead reckoning starts. Recording crowd sourcing data based on dead reckoning includes identifying one or more signals received by a device while the device is at each of multiple positions. For each of the multiple positions, both an indication of the position determined based at least in part on dead reckoning and an indication of the one or more signals received while the device is at that position are recorded. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING DISTANCEAANM CHOU; MING-HUNGAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP CHOU; MING-HUNG TAIPEI CITY TWAANM HSIEH; CHING-FENGAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP HSIEH; CHING-FENG TAIPEI CITY TW - A method for measuring distance involves calculating a distance based on light speed and a time taken by an optical signal to travel to an object and return therefrom. The method includes calculating a time based on a cycle number of a reference signal under a clock mask synchronized with emission and reception of the optical signal; correcting the time according to a plurality of phase shift signals generated based on the reference signal; and minimizing an error of the time by increasing the quantity of the phase shift signals. The method enhances the accuracy of the measured time taken by an optical signal to travel to an object and return therefrom, speeds up measurement, and reduces the required circuit areas. A system for measuring distance is further introduced for use with the method. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018631 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING TIMEAANM CHOU; MING-HUNGAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP CHOU; MING-HUNG TAIPEI CITY TWAANM HSIEH; CHING-FENGAACI TAIPEI CITYAACO TWAAGP HSIEH; CHING-FENG TAIPEI CITY TW - A method for measuring time includes setting a clock mask by a starting signal and an ending signal generated upon commencement of measurement and termination of measurement, respectively; obtaining a cycle number of a reference signal under the clock mask to calculate a preliminary time; correcting the preliminary time according to a plurality of phase shift signals generated based on the reference signal; and minimizing an error of the preliminary time by increasing the quantity of the phase shift signals. The method enhances the accuracy of the measured time, times up time measurement, and reduces the required circuit areas. A system for measuring time is further introduced for use with the method. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018632 | Monitoring and Using Telemetry DataAANM Field; BrianAACI EvergreenAAST COAACO USAAGP Field; Brian Evergreen CO USAANM Van Doorn; JanAACI Castle RockAAST COAACO USAAGP Van Doorn; Jan Castle Rock CO USAANM Kiok; JosephAACI West ChesterAAST PAAACO USAAGP Kiok; Joseph West Chester PA USAANM Groustra; DanielAACI LittletonAAST COAACO USAAGP Groustra; Daniel Littleton CO USAANM Torluemke; MarkAACI CentennialAAST COAACO USAAGP Torluemke; Mark Centennial CO USAANM Hall; JimAACI CentennialAAST COAACO USAAGP Hall; Jim Centennial CO USAANM Leddy; JohnAACI Bryn MawrAAST PAAACO USAAGP Leddy; John Bryn Mawr PA US - Aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring and using telemetry information in various ways. For example, a system that monitors telemetry information may include a user that gathers telemetry information of a device and transmits the information to a monitored room. A manager may join a monitored room and monitor the monitored room for particular types of telemetry information. In one example, a manager may determine whether a downstream device is experiencing a network problem, such as a low bitrate. A manager may also transmit commands to the player via the monitored room, which causes the downstream device to operate in accordance with the transmitted command. In one example, a manager may transmit a command that causes a player to decode a particular service. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018633 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CENTRAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATION - A method and apparatus comprising acquiring spectral measurements from an optical fiber sensor. The optical fiber sensor is an SBS-based sensor such as a BOTDA. The acquired measurements are of Brillouin interactions at a point along the optical fiber being excited by the lasers of the SBS-based sensor. The acquired measurements can comprise discreet measurements of the Brillouin gain spectrum (“BGS”) at the point along the fiber. The discreet measurements can be plotted as data points. A BGS can be defined by three parameters: the Brillouin frequency shift (“BFS”), the bandwidth and the peak gain. A Lorentzian curve can be used to model a BGS. A BFS can be determined by estimating the central frequency of the Lorentzian curve which is used to model the BGS. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018634 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTING SWEEP/EXTRUDE/REVOLVE FEATURE SHAPE FROM ATYPICAL DIGITAL DATAAANM BAE; Seock HoonAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP BAE; Seock Hoon Seoul KRAANM LEE; Dong HoonAACI SeoulAACO KRAAGP LEE; Dong Hoon Seoul KRAANM CHO; Sung WookAACI BucheonAACO KRAAGP CHO; Sung Wook Bucheon KRAANM YANG; Chang YoonAACI Sungnam CityAACO KRAAGP YANG; Chang Yoon Sungnam City KRAANM CHUNG; Kang HoonAACI Seongnam-siAACO KRAAGP CHUNG; Kang Hoon Seongnam-si KR - Provided is an apparatus and method of automatically extracting a sweep/extrude/revolve feature shape from atypical digital data, including a scanner which scans a 3D object so as to provide 3D scan data indicating a shape of the 3D object, and a computing device which extracts a feature shape from a collection of the 3D scan data collected from the scanner, wherein the computing device includes an extracting means for extracting multiple points from the collection of the 3D scan data and producing initial section from the extracted multiple points; an aligning means for aligning the sections so that shapes of the sections are coincided with each other; a compensating means for forming an initial path, generating an initial profile and then compensating the path; and a modeling means for performing a modeling function using the compensated path and profile. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018635 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL MOLECULAR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS - The present invention relates to methods and systems for the accurate prediction of nucleic acid, e.g., RNA and DNA, and other macromolecular and biomolecular three-dimensional structure from sequence and constraint information. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018636 | QUADRATIC APPROXIMATE OFFSET CURVES FOR QUADRATIC CURVE SEGMENTSAANM Ruf; Erik S.AACI KirklandAAST WAAACO USAAGP Ruf; Erik S. Kirkland WA US - A system is described herein that produces at least one approximate offset curve that is separated by an original curve segment S | 2013-01-17 |
20130018637 | EVENT SIMULATION WITH ENERGY ANALYSISAANM Heinicke; MatthiasAACI DitzingenAACO DEAAGP Heinicke; Matthias Ditzingen DE - Systems and methods for event simulation with energy analysis. A method includes receiving a plurality of environment objects, and receiving energy attributes corresponding to one or more of the environment objects. The method includes simulating the operation of the environment objects and, during the simulation, calculating values for the energy attributes reflecting the energy use for the respective energy attributes. The method includes displaying the calculated values for the energy attributes. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018638 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVELY BIASING A LOADPINAANM Taylor; Wesley P.AACI GlendaleAAST WIAACO USAAGP Taylor; Wesley P. Glendale WI US - Systems and methods for actively biasing a loadpin. The systems include, for example, a power shovel positioning module, a loadpin bias module, and an active bias determination module. The power shovel positioning module is configured to determine the position of one or more components of an industrial machine. The loadpin bias module is configured to generate a signal associated with a vector quantity (e.g., having a magnitude and a direction) which can be used to describe the force applied to the loadpin in both an x-direction and a y-direction. The active bias determination module is configured to determine whether the industrial machine is in a proper state or condition to actively bias the loadpin, and determine loadpin bias values during the operation of the industrial machine when the industrial machine is in the proper condition for loadpin biasing. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018639 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELEVATORAANM Sakai; MasayaAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Sakai; Masaya Tokyo JP - Provided is a control device for an elevator to be operated with a speed pattern thereof being changed based on a load of the elevator, in which a control parameter is automatically adjusted in a short period so that the capability of a drive device is appropriately exhibited regardless of the magnitudes of travel resistance and mechanical loss that varies for each elevator, and consequently the elevator is operated with high efficiency, the control device including: a traveling model used for calculating the speed command value of the elevator; and means for automatically adjusting a parameter of the traveling model based on travel data during a travel of the elevator when the elevator is installed and adjusted. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018640 | Pseudo-Analytical Method For The Solution Of Wave Equations - The instant invention is a method for numerically propagating waves or solving wave equations on a digital computer. This invention can be used to compute highly accurate solutions to the wave equation, in fact in some cases it computes the analytical solution, something previously considered impossible. The instant method can also propagate waves that are not described by differential equations, such as anisotropic scalar waves. The invention has the advantages that it is computationally efficient, accurate, and flexible. Of importance is the ability to propagate waves that simulate the P-wave arrivals in both isotropic and anisotropic media with a scalar as opposed to a vector equation. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018641 | Method For Simulating Fractional Multi-Phase/Multi-Component Flow Through Porous Media - A method for computing or estimating fractional, multi-phase/multi-component flow through a porous medium employing a 3D digital representation of a porous medium and a computational fluid dynamics method to calculate flow rates, pressures, saturations, internal velocity vectors and other flow parameters is described. The method employs a unique method of introducing non-wetting and wetting fluids into the pores at the inlet face of the 3D digital representation of a porous medium and a novel process control application to achieve quasi-steady state flow at low inlet concentrations of non-wetting fluid. In addition, the method of the present invention reduces the time required to simulate to complete the fluid dynamic calculations. The resulting values of flow of non-wetting fluid, wetting fluid, saturation, and other parameters are used to generate plots of relative permeability imbibition and drainage curves. Computerized systems and programs for performing the method are also provided. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018642 | Hierarchical Modeling of Physical Systems and Their Uncertainties - A hierarchical modeling tool or process is provided that represents the fill range of behavior of a hydrocarbon system, accurately including uncertainties and potential events affecting the system. The potential events may include actions taken and information learned. The hierarchical modeling tool may be embedded within a decision support system or used in a stand-alone fashion. Disclosed aspects may link from accurate (high-detail) physics models to an accurate uncertainty representation, and then reduce the accurate uncertainty representation to a high-speed representation of both the physics model and the uncertainty that can be used in an optimizer. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018643 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATING CIRCUIT OPERATIONAANM Sharma; PrashantAACI CummingAAST GAAACO USAAGP Sharma; Prashant Cumming GA USAANM Ma; Jia QiangAACI HollywoodAAST FLAACO USAAGP Ma; Jia Qiang Hollywood FL US - A processor for use in simulating operation of a portion of an electrical circuit is provided. The processor is configured to receive at least one input indicative of electrical circuit data related to the electrical circuit being simulated, generate a model of the electrical circuit based on the at least one input, receive a user input that indicates the portion of the electrical circuit to be simulated, generate, based on the user input and the electrical circuit model, a partial circuit snapshot that corresponds to the portion of the electrical circuit, and apply at least one event to the partial circuit snapshot to simulate operation of the corresponding portion of the electrical circuit. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018644 | System and Method For Controlling Granularity of Transaction Recording In Discrete Event SimulationAANM Motel; VincentAACI GrenobleAACO FRAAGP Motel; Vincent Grenoble FRAANM Bhatnagar; NeetiAACI San JoseAAST CAAACO USAAGP Bhatnagar; Neeti San Jose CA USAANM Frazier; George F.AACI LawrenceAAST KSAACO USAAGP Frazier; George F. Lawrence KS USAANM LaRue, JR.; William W.AACI LeawoodAAST KSAACO USAAGP LaRue, JR.; William W. Leawood KS US - A method and system for controlling granularity of transaction recording and visualizing system performance and behavior in a discrete functional verification software simulation environment is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a simulation of a model is run in a discrete event simulation system for a period of time. During the simulation, statistical values of attribute for a plurality of transactions occurring during the period of time are monitored. Based on a granularity setting, a group of consecutive transactions is grouped into a super transaction, and the statistical values representing the super transaction are recorded to represent the group of transactions. The super transactions are visualized in a visualization tool for analyzing the performance of the model. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018645 | Prediction Of Circuit Performance Variations Due To Device Mismatch - Aspects of the invention relate to techniques for predicting circuit performance variations due to device mismatch. Circuit simulation is performed to generate circuit simulation results based on a circuit description and information of circuit element parameters. Based on the simulation results, sensitivity information for the circuit design and current/charge deviations caused by individual circuit element parameter variations may be computed. Based on the sensitivity information and the current/charge deviations, steady-state mismatch effect information is determined. The determination may comprise first computing output parameter deviations caused by the individual variations of the circuit element parameters and then computing a total output parameter deviation based on the output parameter deviations. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018646 | TIME-DOMAIN SIGNAL GENERATION - Methods and apparatus disclosed herein operate to receive a plurality of cycles characterized by a set of time-domain aspects, to modify at least one of the time-domain aspects of at least some of the plurality of cycles to produce a plurality of modified cycles, to process at least some of the modified cycles to produce time-domain cycles, and to create a time-domain signal based at least in part on concatenating the time-domain cycles. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-LINGUAL TRANSLATION - The present invention relates to the translation of a portion of text to be communicated in a text-based communication in a communications network. A communications device for composing the text-based communication queries a translation service with a portion of text in a first language to obtain a replacement for the portion in a second language. A user may trigger a replacement query by composing the portion using at least one trigger symbol monitored by the communications device. Replacement may be confirmed with the user and at least one alternative replacement sought in response to the confirmation. The communications network may comprise a wireless network and the communications device a wireless mobile communications device. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018648 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING A LANGUAGE FOR TEXT SEGMENTATION - Methods and systems for selecting a language for text segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least a first candidate language and a second candidate language associated with a string of characters are identified, at least a first segmented result associated with the first candidate language and a second segmented result associated with the second candidate language are determined, a first frequency of occurrence for the first segmented result and a second frequency of occurrence for the second segmented result are determined, and an operable language is identified from the first candidate language and the second candidate language based at least in part on the first frequency of occurrence and the second frequency of occurrence. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018649 | System and a Method for Generating Semantically Similar Sentences for Building a Robust SLMAANM Deshmukh; Om D.AACI New DelhiAACO INAAGP Deshmukh; Om D. New Delhi INAANM Joshi; SachindraAACI New DelhiAACO INAAGP Joshi; Sachindra New Delhi INAANM Mohamed; Shajith I.AACI KarnatakaAACO INAAGP Mohamed; Shajith I. Karnataka INAANM Verma; AshishAACI New DelhiAACO INAAGP Verma; Ashish New Delhi IN - A system and method are described for generating semantically similar sentences for a statistical language model. A semantic class generator determines for each word in an input utterance a set of corresponding semantically similar words. A sentence generator computes a set of candidate sentences each containing at most one member from each set of semantically similar words. A sentence verifier grammatically tests each candidate sentence to determine a set of grammatically correct sentences semantically similar to the input utterance. Also note that the generated semantically similar sentences are not restricted to be selected from an existing sentence database. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018650 | Selection of Language Model Training Data - An intelligent selection system selects language model training data to obtain in-domain training datasets. The selection is accomplished by estimating a cross-entropy difference for each candidate text segment from a generic language dataset. The cross-entropy difference is a difference between the cross-entropy of the text segment according to the in-domain language model and the cross-entropy of the text segment according to a language model trained on a random sample of the data source from which the text segment is drawn. If the difference satisfies a threshold condition, the text segment is added as an in-domain text segment to a training dataset. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018651 | PROVISION OF USER INPUT IN SYSTEMS FOR JOINTLY DISCOVERING TOPICS AND SENTIMENTSAANM Djordjevic; DivnaAACI AntibesAACO FRAAGP Djordjevic; Divna Antibes FRAANM Ghani; RayidAACI ChicagoAAST ILAACO USAAGP Ghani; Rayid Chicago IL USAANM Krema; MarkoAACI EvanstonAAST ILAACO USAAGP Krema; Marko Evanston IL US - A generative model is used to develop at least one topic model and at least one sentiment model for a body of text. The at least one topic model is displayed such that, in response, a user may provide user input indicating modifications to the at least one topic model. Based on the received user input, the generative model is used to provide at least one updated topic model and at least one updated sentiment model based on the user input. Thereafter, the at least one updated topic model may again be displayed in order to solicit further user input, which further input is then used to once again update the models. The at least one updated topic model and the at least one updated sentiment model may be employed to analyze target text in order to identify topics and associated sentiments therein. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018652 | EVIDENCE DIFFUSION AMONG CANDIDATE ANSWERS DURING QUESTION ANSWERING - Diffusing evidence among candidate answers during question answering may identify a relationship between a first candidate answer and a second candidate answer, wherein the candidate answers are generated by a question-answering computer process, the candidate answers have associated supporting evidence, and the candidate answers have associated confidence scores. All or some of the evidence may be transferred from the first candidate answer to the second candidate answer based on the identified relationship. A new confidence score may be computed for the second candidate answer based on the transferred evidence. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018653 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF COMPOUND TEXT INPUT EMPLOYING DIFFERENT GROUPINGS OF DATA SOURCES TO DISAMBIGUATE DIFFERENT PARTS OF INPUT - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to generate compound language solutions by employing different groupings of data sources to generate different portions of the compound language solutions. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018654 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING PLAYBACK OF AD HOC CONVERSATIONSAANM Toebes; John A.AACI CaryAAST NCAACO USAAGP Toebes; John A. Cary NC US - In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring activity in an environment, and storing a snippet of the monitored activity. Monitoring the activity in the environment includes operating a device arranged to capture the activity between approximately a first time and approximately a second time. The snippet has a particular duration that is arranged to end at approximately the second time;. The method also includes storing the snippet in a storage module and determining when a request to provide the snippet is obtained from a party. If it is determined that the request to play the snippet is obtained, the method includes accessing the storage module to obtain the snippet and providing the snippet to the party if it is determined that the request to provide the snippet is obtained. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018655 | CONTINUOUS SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION PERFORMANCE INDICATION - A method of providing speech transcription performance indication includes receiving, at a user device data representing text transcribed from an audio stream by an ASR system, and data representing a metric associated with the audio stream; displaying, via the user device, said text; and via the user device, providing, in user-perceptible form, an indicator of said metric. Another method includes displaying, by a user device, text transcribed from an audio stream by an ASR system; and via the user device, providing, in user-perceptible form, an indicator of a level of background noise of the audio stream. Another method includes receiving data representing an audio stream; converting said data representing an audio stream to text via an ASR system; determining a metric associated with the audio stream; transmitting data representing said text to a user device; and transmitting data representing said metric to the user device. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018656 | FILTERING TRANSCRIPTIONS OF UTTERANCES - A method for facilitating mobile phone messaging, such as text messaging and instant messaging, includes receiving audio data communicated from the mobile communication device, the audio data representing an utterance that is intended to be at least a portion of the text of the message that is to be sent from the mobile phone to a recipient; transcribing the utterance to text based on the received audio data to generate a transcription; and applying a filter to the transcribed text to generate a filtered transcription, the text of which is intended to mimic language patterns of mobile device messaging that is performed manually by users. The method may also be applied to the audio data of a voicemail, with the filtered, transcribed text being communicated to a mobile phone as, for example, an SMS text message. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018657 | Method and System for Bio-Metric Voice Print Authentication | 2013-01-17 |
20130018658 | DYNAMICALLY EXTENDING THE SPEECH PROMPTS OF A MULTIMODAL APPLICATION - A prompt generation engine operates to dynamically extend prompts of a multimodal application. The prompt generation engine receives a media file having a metadata container. The prompt generation engine operates on a multimodal device that supports a voice mode and a non-voice mode for interacting with the multimodal device. The prompt generation engine retrieves from the metadata container a speech prompt related to content stored in the media file for inclusion in the multimodal application. The prompt generation engine modifies the multimodal application to include the speech prompt. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018659 | Systems and Methods for Speech Command Processing - Methods and apparatus related to processing speech input at a wearable computing device are disclosed. Speech input can be received at the wearable computing device. Speech-related text corresponding to the speech input can be generated. A context can be determined based on database(s) and/or a history of accessed documents. An action can be determined based on an evaluation of at least a portion of the speech-related text and the context. The action can be a command or a search request. If the action is a command, then the wearable computing device can generate output for the command. If the action is a search request, then the wearable computing device can: communicate the search request to a search engine, receive search results from the search engine, and generate output based on the search results. The output can be provided using output component(s) of the wearable computing device. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018660 | AUDIO SIGNAL CODING AND DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention provide an audio signal coding and decoding method and device. The coding method includes: dividing a frequency band of an audio signal into a plurality of sub-bands, and quantifying a sub-band normalization factor of each sub-band; determining signal bandwidth of bit allocation according to the quantified sub-band normalization factor, or according to the quantified sub-band normalization factor and bit rate information; allocating bits for a sub-band within the determined signal bandwidth; and coding a spectrum coefficient of the audio signal according to the bits allocated for each sub-band. According to embodiments of the present invention, during coding and decoding, signal bandwidth of bit allocation is determined according to the quantified sub-band normalization factor and bit rate information. In this manner, the determined signal bandwidth is effectively coded and decoded by centralizing the bits, and audio quality is improved. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018661 | GUEST EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODAANM Padgett; John M.AACI ClermontAAST FLAACO USAAGP Padgett; John M. Clermont FL USAANM Butler; Bart D.AACI CelebrationAAST FLAACO USAAGP Butler; Bart D. Celebration FL USAANM Whittington; StevenAACI OrlandoAAST FLAACO USAAGP Whittington; Steven Orlando FL USAANM Russell; Patrick B.AACI OrlandoAAST FLAACO USAAGP Russell; Patrick B. Orlando FL USAANM Spivey; Bonnie J.AACI CelebrationAAST FLAACO USAAGP Spivey; Bonnie J. Celebration FL USAANM Diaz; ChristyAACI OrlandoAAST FLAACO USAAGP Diaz; Christy Orlando FL USAANM Sypko; Timothy D.AACI Winter GardenAAST FLAACO USAAGP Sypko; Timothy D. Winter Garden FL USAANM Fishpool; Jennifer PittsAACI OcoeeAAST FLAACO USAAGP Fishpool; Jennifer Pitts Ocoee FL USAANM Stevens; Roger C.AACI OrlandoAAST FLAACO USAAGP Stevens; Roger C. Orlando FL US - An exemplary computer implemented method comprises receiving information from a guest, determining a guest strategy based on the information received from the guest, and generating a schedule for the guest visit based on the guest strategy. The schedule for the guest visit may include attendance at one or more experience areas. An exemplary computer system comprises a guest experience manager. The guest experience manager includes a guest interface capable of receiving a communication from a guest computer, where the communication from the guest computer provides guest information. The exemplary guest experience manager also includes at least one business rule for determining a guest strategy based at least in part on the guest information. The computer system also comprises a scheduling element in communication with the guest experience manager. The exemplary scheduling element is capable of scheduling at least on experience based on the guest strategy. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018662 | Business Transaction Capture And Replay With Long Term Request PersistenceAANM DUBBELS; Joel C.AACI EyotaAAST MNAACO USAAGP DUBBELS; Joel C. Eyota MN USAANM STEVENS; Richard J.AACI RochesterAAST MNAACO USAAGP STEVENS; Richard J. Rochester MN US - Business transaction capture and replay with long term request persistence, including: creating, in response to a request for execution of a business transaction, an original business object representing the request for execution of the business transaction, the original business object comprising a data structure supported by the business transaction; executing the business transaction including: executing, in dependence upon the original business object, one or more business processes of the business transaction, including, for each business process, storing results of the business process as an interim business object; maintaining, in a failed request business object, the original business object and each interim business object; identifying a failure of a business process; and including, in the failed request business object, error information describing the failed business process; and re-executing the business transaction using the failed request business object. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018663 | Connecting Consumers with ProvidersAANM Schoenberg; RoyAACI BostonAAST MAAACO USAAGP Schoenberg; Roy Boston MA US - A computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a computing device used by a first service provider, a request for an available second service provider, with a device used by the first service provider having a first communication channel established with a device used by a consumer of services; determining one or more available second service providers; establishing, based on selection of an available second service provider, a second communication channel between a device used by the selected second service provider and the device used by the first service provider; receiving, from the device used by the first service provider, a request to bridge the first communication channel and the second communication channel; and bridging the first communication channel and the second communication channel. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018664 | CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RISK MANAGEMENT CLEARINGHOUSE - Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means for gathering, organizing and presenting on a real time basis information pertinent to Risks associated with subjects related to the Construction Industry. Risks associated with the Construction Industry can be managed by gathering data relevant to the Construction Industry from multiple sources and aggregating the gathered data according to one or more Risk variables. An inquiry relating to a Risk subject can be received and portions of the aggregated data can be associated with the Risk subject. The associated portions of the aggregated data can be transmitted to an entity placing the inquiry or other designated destination. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018665 | Specialty stents with flow control features or the likeAANM Jung; Edward K.Y.AACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Jung; Edward K.Y. Bellevue WA USAANM Langer; RobertAACI NewtonAAST MAAACO USAAGP Langer; Robert Newton MA USAANM Leuthardt; Eric C.AACI St. LouisAAST MOAACO USAAGP Leuthardt; Eric C. St. Louis MO USAANM Levien; Royce A.AACI LexingtonAAST MAAACO USAAGP Levien; Royce A. Lexington MA USAANM Lord; Robert W.AACI SeattleAAST WAAACO USAAGP Lord; Robert W. Seattle WA USAANM Malamud; Mark A.AACI SeattleAAST WAAACO USAAGP Malamud; Mark A. Seattle WA USAANM Rinaldo, JR.; John D.AACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Rinaldo, JR.; John D. Bellevue WA USAANM Tegreene; Clarence T.AACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP Tegreene; Clarence T. Bellevue WA USAANM Wood, JR.; Lowell L.AACI LivermoteAAST CAAACO USAAGP Wood, JR.; Lowell L. Livermote CA US - Methods and systems are described for obtaining a parameter relating to a stent inventory shortage and for specializing one or more stents in response to obtaining the parameter relating to the stent inventory shortage. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018666 | SURGICAL PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method receive a request for a patient-specific surgical plan, create the requested plan, and provide it to a surgeon. A Planning server may receive information regarding a patient, such as one or more files or objects, such as an image of the part of the patient's anatomy that is to be operated on, and an order from a surgeon for a surgical plan. A Plan Development client may include a surgical planning module that accesses the digital image from the Planning Server, and creates a computer-generated, three-dimensional model of the patient anatomy. The planning module of the Plan Development client also may create an electronic surgical plan, and may transmit the plan to the Planning server. The ordering surgeon may be notified of the availability of the plan, and may access the plan stored at the Planning server through a surgeon client. The ordering surgeon may utilize the remotely generated surgical plan during the surgical procedure on the patient. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018667 | Measuring Outcomes Via Telephony - A telephony accessible calendar system is provided for use in a home care scheduling system for scheduling multiple daily work shifts of home care providers that includes a scheduling to organize work shifts of remote operating home care workers and confirmation to obtain an electronic signature from one or more persons operating as individual signers near the end of a work shift, and the tracking of status and/or change in status of one or more measured outcomes associated with the work shift. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018668 | Medical Montioring and Coordinated Care System - Systems and methods are provided for monitoring members of a group and providing coordinated care of the members. Monitoring devices are provided to each of the members which may take periodic health measurements of the member. The health measurement is compared to intervention criteria, which when satisfied, cause one or more interventions to be provided, such as a message sent to a member, a message sent to a health care provider or other interested individual, medical care provided to the member, or other intervention. Monitoring devices may be provided on a subscription basis. Group membership can be dynamic and based on a member's current health measurements. Health measurement information may be provided in reports. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018669 | System for Managing and Messaging Critical Student Information - A system for managing critical student information is disclosed generally comprising storing information associated with individual students, such as important medical information or contact information for the student's parent or guardian, and providing different authorized users, such as school administrators, teachers, or coaches, permission to access the information and/or send messages for particular students. The stored information for each student is associated with one or more group identifiers, which identify particular groups of which the student is a member, such as a school or team, and each authorized user is likewise associated with one or more group identifiers, which identify the particular groups for which the user has access and can send messages. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING PATIENT DATAAANM Pankratz; David CharlesAACI AustinAAST TXAACO USAAGP Pankratz; David Charles Austin TX USAANM Markwardt; Paul EugeneAACI VeronaAAST WIAACO USAAGP Markwardt; Paul Eugene Verona WI USAANM Weston; Todd DavidAACI VeronaAAST WIAACO USAAGP Weston; Todd David Verona WI US - A system includes a host computer system that includes a processor configured to acquire and to analyze image data acquired from a medical imaging device. The system also includes a pluggable support configured to couple to the host computer system, wherein the pluggable support comprises an executable analysis program configured to automatically access the one or more databases via the host computer system, the one or more databases storing data summarizing the image data, and to analyze individual patient data from multiple patients within at least one database of the one or more databases. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018671 | Patient PortalAANM Hussam; Ali AdelAACI ColumbiaAAST MOAACO USAAGP Hussam; Ali Adel Columbia MO US - A computer-implemented includes receiving, from one or more contributing channels, medical data; assigning the received medical data to one or more data silos; and generating a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device renders a visual representation of a patient portal, with the patient portal including: one or more visual representations of the one or more data silos for data associated with a user that requested the patient portal. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018672 | Method And Apparatus For Providing Telemedicine ServicesAANM Wong; DavidAACI Palo AltoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Wong; David Palo Alto CA USAANM Gupta; RajnishAACI SunnyvaleAAST CAAACO USAAGP Gupta; Rajnish Sunnyvale CA USAANM Rajan; ArunAACI Las VegasAAST NVAACO USAAGP Rajan; Arun Las Vegas NV USAANM Bortolamiol; LaurentAACI San JoseAAST CAAACO USAAGP Bortolamiol; Laurent San Jose CA US - A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing remote dermatological services that are integrated with a patient records management system. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018673 | Systems and Methods for Tracking Time in Scanning-Based Transactions - Provided are systems and methods to measure time between scanner-based transactions and furthermore, the software and hardware required to do so. These systems can be used to track the location of high risk patients and alert staff if any issue arises. This system enables location, attributes, medications, and other vitals of patients to be tracked and stored. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018674 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIOLOGY WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT AND A TOOL THEREFROMAANM Bedi; RickyAACI BangaloreAACO INAAGP Bedi; Ricky Bangalore INAANM Rao; Raghavendra RamachandraAACI BangaloreAACO INAAGP Rao; Raghavendra Ramachandra Bangalore INAANM Ravinutala; Raghavendra KumarAACI BangaloreAACO INAAGP Ravinutala; Raghavendra Kumar Bangalore INAANM Pandurangan; VijayAACI ThiruvarurAACO INAAGP Pandurangan; Vijay Thiruvarur INAANM Subbaraj; KarthikeyanAACI VirudunagarAACO INAAGP Subbaraj; Karthikeyan Virudunagar IN - A method and system for managing radiology study orders is disclosed. The method includes the steps for creating an order for a radiology study; receiving one or more images; reconciling an image from one or more images with the order, based on a reconciliation rule set to obtain the radiology study; assigning a radiologist for the radiology study based on auto-scheduling rule set and control parameters; reading of the radiology study by the radiologist; recording of a radiology report for the radiology study by the radiologist; generating a quality index for the radiologist based on the radiology report; sending the radiology report to a physician; and approving of the radiology report by the physician. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018675 | Method, System and Program Storage Device for Obtaining Bail Bond InsuranceAANM Kagulian; ArtourAACI HollywoodAAST FLAACO USAAGP Kagulian; Artour Hollywood FL US - A method, system and program storage device in a client/server environment comprises establishing a connection with the server for the purpose of obtaining at least one insurance policy. An individual's request to obtain a bail bond insurance policy is communicated to the server. Personal information is obtained about the individual. The personal information is communicated to the server where the server processes the personal information and generates insurance rate information at least in part based on the personal information. The insurance rate information is received from the server. The insurance rate information is displayed for selection. A selection of the individual is communicated to the server where the server generates a bail bond insurance policy at least in part based on the selection with the individual as the holder of the bail bond insurance policy. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018676 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATED TO A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY HAVING A SECONDARY GUARANTEEAANM Fischer; Paul M.AACI South WindsorAAST CTAACO USAAGP Fischer; Paul M. South Windsor CT USAANM Niedzielski; AndrewAACI WethersfieldAAST CTAACO USAAGP Niedzielski; Andrew Wethersfield CT USAANM VanHorn; Gerald G.AACI TollandAAST CTAACO USAAGP VanHorn; Gerald G. Tolland CT US - A computer system for processing data related to an universal life insurance policy issued by an issuer to an owner and having a death benefit payable to a beneficiary on death of an insured, includes a data storage device storing data indicative of rates and formulas applicable to the policy, and a processor in communication with the data storage device. The processor is configured to: receive data indicative of, for an universal life insurance policy to be illustrated, an age of an insured, a death benefit amount, and timing of payment of premiums; determine an amount of premiums required for the policy by determining whether a policy protection account will have a minimum balance at a selected future date, the policy protection account balance being calculated by crediting to the policy protection account balance amounts of premiums, reduced by a first tier premium charge at a first rate up to a break point amount of premiums, and a second tier premium charge at a second rate above the break point amount of premiums. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018677 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPORTING A CONFIDENCE SCORE IN RELATION TO A VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH A WIRELESS-ENABLED USAGE REPORTING DEVICE - A computer-implemented method provides information about a financed, leased or insured vehicle having an onboard wireless-enabled usage reporting device for computing a risk associated with a financing, leasing or insurance obligation. The method entails receiving data from a remote computer to set parameters to be used by the device installed in the vehicle to measure real-time vehicle usage, computing on the device a confidence score based on the parameters and storing the confidence score in the device, the confidence score being indicative of a risk associated with the financing, leasing or insurance obligation of the vehicle, transferring the confidence score or information relating to the confidence score from the device to the remote computer in response to a command from the remote computer or automatically based on a predefined criterion, and displaying the confidence score to indicate the risk associated with the financing, leasing or insurance obligation. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018678 | FAMILY PROTECTION INSURANCE METHOD AND SYSTEM - Family protection insurance provides for a flexible and adjustable insurance policy that can be adjustable to be consistent with changes in the adult's insurance needs. The insurance policy is a term policy where, at predefined intervals, the policy owner may increase the policy value without requiring additional underwriting. The policy owner may also, at any time, convert all or a portion of the term policy to permanent insurance, while still maintaining the term policy and replenish the death benefit amounts of the term policy through the intermittent value increments. Thus, adults may adjust the death benefits of the term policy and convert the term policy death benefits to permanent insurance consistent with changing insurance needs. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018679 | 3D version of self-changing a hotel, motel, resort room , a theater, stadium or an arena seat & business solution for their businesses - A revolutionary self-choosing a hotel, motel, resort room, a theater, stadium, or an arena seat online and business solution for their businesses are invented. The customer can check any available rooms on different floors in a hotel, motel or resort and the seats in a theater, stadium or an arena. A hotel, motel, resort, theater, stadium and arena can be any one in a city or out of a city. The e-commerce web application contains two modules. One is for the customer. The other is for the business' internal use. Both of them will be developed by computer language either .net, java or other named language. The web application will be carefully integrated with the current businesses' system. .Net or java or other named language is computer development language. They contain logic rules, packages, procedures, and triggers along with other development tools. The consumer and the hotel, motel, resort, entertainment and sports businesses will take different steps before they can reach the desired results. The results can be a room is reserved, a ticket is bough or the backbone management tasks are taken etc. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018680 | Method and System for Providing and Administering Online Rental Vehicle Reservation Booking Services - A system and method is disclosed herein for customizing pages of a rental vehicle reservation booking website with deep-links for specialized rental vehicle reservations. The specialized rental vehicle reservations may comprise reservations for a division of a customer entity and/or promotional offer reservations. Multi-division and multi-offer pages can also be defined for the website through an administrative tool. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018681 | System and Method for Boarding Passengers Based on Bids - Systems and methods for boarding passengers on flights or other transportation according to bids received from the passengers are provided. Passengers seeking to fly standby on an undersold flight can submit a bid representing the amount the passengers are willing to pay to board the flight. The airline can determine the number of seats available on the flight, and board the highest bidding passengers until the flight is full. Similarly, passengers willing to be bumped from an oversold flight can submit a bid representing the incentive the passengers are willing to accept to be bumped from the flight. The airline can determine the number of passengers that must be bumped from the flight, and bump the lowest bidding passengers (i.e., those willing to accept the least costly incentive) until a sufficient number of passengers have been bumped from the flight. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018682 | Managing Processes In An Enterprise Intelligence ('EI') Assembly Of An EI FrameworkAANM Reddington; Francis X.AACI SarasotaAAST FLAACO USAAGP Reddington; Francis X. Sarasota FL USAANM Sahota; NeilAACI Costa MesaAAST CAAACO USAAGP Sahota; Neil Costa Mesa CA US - Managing processes in an Enterprise Intelligence (‘EI’) assembly of an EI framework, including: for each executing EI assembly in the EI framework, in real time: tracking, by the process state transition manager, the present state of processes of each executing EI assembly; analyzing, by the process state transition manager, the present state; and storing, by the process state transition manager, results of the state analysis. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018683 | SYSTEM AND DECISION MODEL FOR OPTIMIZING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIOS AND TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIOS FOR BUILDING BRAND EQUITY - A technology platform, software, business system and decision model to build brand equity or improve business performance through more effective product/technology portfolio management and better alignment of product and technology strategy with brand strategy | 2013-01-17 |
20130018684 | GUEST EXPERIENCE SCHEDULE SYSTEM AND METHODAANM Padgett; John M.AACI ClermontAAST FLAACO USAAGP Padgett; John M. Clermont FL USAANM Butler; Bart D.AACI CelebrationAAST FLAACO USAAGP Butler; Bart D. Celebration FL USAANM Whittington; StevenAACI OrlandoAAST FLAACO USAAGP Whittington; Steven Orlando FL USAANM Russell; Patrick B.AACI OrlandoAAST FLAACO USAAGP Russell; Patrick B. Orlando FL USAANM Spivey; Bonnie J.AACI CelebrationAAST FLAACO USAAGP Spivey; Bonnie J. Celebration FL USAANM Diaz; ChristyAACI OrlandoAAST FLAACO USAAGP Diaz; Christy Orlando FL USAANM Sypko; Timothy D.AACI Winter GardenAAST FLAACO USAAGP Sypko; Timothy D. Winter Garden FL USAANM Fishpool; Jennifer PittsAACI OcoeeAAST FLAACO USAAGP Fishpool; Jennifer Pitts Ocoee FL USAANM Stevens; Roger C.AACI OrlandoAAST FLAACO USAAGP Stevens; Roger C. Orlando FL US - An exemplary computer-implemented method comprises receiving a guest strategy, the guest strategy determined at least in part from information received from a guest. The exemplary method also includes determining available experiences based on the guest strategy, and geographically sequencing at least two of the available experiences based on the guest strategy. An exemplary computer system comprises a guest interface capable of receiving a guest strategy, where the guest strategy is determined at least in part from information received from the guest. The exemplary computer system also includes a scheduling element capable of receiving information from the guest interface, the information including at least the guest strategy. The exemplary scheduling element includes logic to determine available experiences based on the guest strategy. The exemplary scheduling element also includes logic to generate a geographic sequence of at least two of the available experiences. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018685 | System and Method for Tasking Based Upon Social Influence - The present invention provides a structured sentiment expression and management system and method. The present invention can receive sentiment content from at least two contributing users, wherein the received content is structured according to a specific human emotion, gesture or feeling and a level of intensity of the specific human emotion, gesture or feeling. The present invention further displays the received content in a pre-defined and user-selected sentiment category related to the specific human emotion, gesture or feeling. In one embodiment, the present invention can initiate a contest requiring sentiment content in order to evaluate the winner. In one embodiment, the present invention can receive a request from a requester for a crowdsourcing task and, based upon determined social influence ratings, assign the task to a user. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018686 | WORK SKILLSET GENERATIONAANM Wright; Simon AnthonyAACI SheffieldAACO GBAAGP Wright; Simon Anthony Sheffield GBAANM Aucott; DanielAACI LeicestershireAACO GBAAGP Aucott; Daniel Leicestershire GBAANM Cafolla; Gerard JamesAACI WarwickAACO GBAAGP Cafolla; Gerard James Warwick GBAANM Talbot; Edward WinstonAACI WarwickshireAACO GBAAGP Talbot; Edward Winston Warwickshire GBAANM Pratt; James George HorneAACI HampshireAACO GBAAGP Pratt; James George Horne Hampshire GBAANM Hadley; Paul JamesAACI West MidlandsAACO GBAAGP Hadley; Paul James West Midlands GB - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for analyzing work skills. In one aspect, a method includes receiving work task data specifying a plurality of work tasks for a plurality of service providers. For each service provider, receiving performance data specifying an objective measure of a performance metric associated with the service provider performing a work task; receiving assessment data specifying a subjective measure of an attribute associated with the service provider performing the work task; and generating skills data for the service provider based on an aggregation of the assessment data and the performance data. For each of a plurality of customers receiving customer data specifying work tasks requested by the customer; generating mapping data specifying measures of correlation between the skills data for the service providers and the customer data specifying work tasks requested by the customer; and providing the mapping data to an information provider. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018687 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A HOUSEHOLD SERVICES MARKETPLACE - A system and method are disclosed for the operation of an In-home Assistant Service. The service provides a marketplace to connect households with assistants for frequent and specialized jobs. The service collects profile data of potential assistants including multiple skills the assistant can provide. It also enables the household to provide detailed request criteria. A locate process is then performed to determine, which assistants best meet the identified criteria. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018688 | UPDATING A CALENDAR OR TASK STATUS VIA TELEPHONYAANM Nudd; Geoffrey HowardAACI San FranciscoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Nudd; Geoffrey Howard San Francisco CA US - A telephony accessible calendar system is provided for use in a home care scheduling system for scheduling multiple daily work shifts of home care providers that includes a scheduling to organize work shifts of remote operating home care workers and confirmation to obtain an electronic signature from one or more persons operating as individual signers near the end of a work shift. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018689 | System and Method for Enhancing and Sustaining Operational Efficiency - The instant specification discloses methods and means for enhancing and sustaining performance efficiencies within an organization, the methods and means including at least an operational methodology and a software package. Using the Methodology with the related software enables an organization to effectively plan, document, manage and continuously improve its operations in order to achieve (and possibly exceed) its business goals. Therefore, the Methodology and the related System enable an organization to safely and efficiently achieve business excellence and sustain it over time. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018690 | SOFTWARE AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING AND SCHEDULING SUBSTITUTE GOLFERS IN A GOLF LEAGUE - Software and methods allow a league golfer to schedule a substitute golfer or request a need for a substitute. If a substitute golfer is scheduled, the golfer is notified. If a substitute golfer is not scheduled, all potential substitute golfers that are loaded into the system will be notified of the request. The first substitute golfer to respond to the request is automatically scheduled in place of the league golfer. The system automatically notifies the league golfer that the request has been fulfilled. Previously, golfers and league secretaries relied on making phone calls, leaving messages and manually sending emails to find a substitute golfer. The system notifies all available golfers simultaneously and requires less effort. The system accepts only one substitute golfer for each request, based on whichever substitute responds first. All others are notified that the request is no longer available and prevented from accepting the request. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018691 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHODAANM YUMBE; YoshikiAACI KokubunjiAACO JPAAGP YUMBE; Yoshiki Kokubunji JPAANM HASEGAWA; TakashiAACI KokubunjiAACO JPAAGP HASEGAWA; Takashi Kokubunji JP - A management system for creating an inspection schedule of objects to be tested within a plurality of management areas, includes a calculation unit that calculates the costs for inspecting the objects to be tested based on the positional information; and a schedule creation unit that creates a schedule for inspecting the objects to be tested based on calculation results. The calculation unit calculates a first cost required when the objects to be tested within the management areas are inspected at the same timing within a first time limit, and a second cost required when a part of the objects to be tested within the management areas is inspected within the first time limit, individually, and the other objects to be tested within the management areas are inspected at the same timing within a second time limit longer than the first time limit. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018692 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SCENARIO-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF COMPLETE SAFETY-BASED REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONAANM Guo; ZhenshengAACI ErlangenAACO DEAAGP Guo; Zhensheng Erlangen DEAANM Liggesmeyer; PeterAACI KaiserslauternAACO DEAAGP Liggesmeyer; Peter Kaiserslautern DE - A method for defining a safety-oriented requirements specification for a technical system completely and concurrently, has: carrying out a safety based specification identification process, performing a sequence based qualitative risk analysis to identify a plurality of safety critical states, partially eliminating safety critical states from identified critical states, recording a plurality of safety critical requirements by a system state machine, creating a reduced state machine based on technical system functional requirements and the recorded requirements, finding a plurality of failure modes and first countermeasures, finding data deviations and second countermeasures, finding failure modes and corresponding corrective actions with respect to a technical system interface, displaying information regarding the identified plurality of failure modes, performing a quantitative safety analysis regarding the technical system, identifying a plurality of risk values, and prioritizing functions in the safety-oriented requirements specification for a technical system according to the identified plurality of risk values. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018693 | Dynamically Allocating Business WorkflowsAANM Dubbels; Joel C.AACI EyotaAAST MNAACO USAAGP Dubbels; Joel C. Eyota MN USAANM Stevens; Richard J.AACI RochesterAAST MNAACO USAAGP Stevens; Richard J. Rochester MN US - Dynamically allocating business workflows, each workflow comprising a reusable component of a business transaction, including: receiving, by a workflow orchestrator, a request for a business transaction; determining, by the workflow orchestrator, a desired result for the business transaction in dependence upon the request; selecting, by the workflow orchestrator, one or more workflows from a set of available workflows in dependence upon the request and the desired result; determining an execution order for the one or more workflows; and executing, by the workflow orchestrator, the one or more selected workflows in the execution order. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018694 | Dynamically Allocating Business WorkflowsAANM Dubbels; Joel C.AACI EyotaAAST MNAACO USAAGP Dubbels; Joel C. Eyota MN USAANM Stevens; Richard J.AACI RochesterAAST MNAACO USAAGP Stevens; Richard J. Rochester MN US - Dynamically allocating business workflows, including: receiving, by a workflow orchestrator, a request for a business transaction that includes one or more desired result parameters; determining, by the workflow orchestrator, a desired result for the business transaction in dependence upon the request; and iteratively, until a selected workflow produces interim results that conform to the desired result parameters or until no other workflow is available: selecting, by the workflow orchestrator, a workflow from a set of available workflows in dependence upon the request and the desired result; and executing, by the workflow orchestrator, the selected workflow, thereby producing interim results. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018695 | Enterprise Intelligence ('EI') Assembly Analysis In An EI FrameworkAANM Reddington; Francis X.AACI SarasotaAAST FLAACO USAAGP Reddington; Francis X. Sarasota FL USAANM Sahota; NeilAACI Costa MesaAAST CAAACO USAAGP Sahota; Neil Costa Mesa CA US - Enterprise Intelligence (‘EI’) assembly analysis in an EI framework, including: determining, by an EI assembly analysis engine, the present execution state of one or more EI assemblies; determining, by the EI assembly analysis engine, the ideal execution state for the one or more EI assemblies; and identifying, by the EI assembly analysis engine, differences between the present execution state of the one or more EI assemblies and the ideal execution state for the one or more EI assemblies. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018696 | Supply Chain Analysis - The disclosure relates to analyzing and visualizing flows in a supply chain context for the purpose of inventory optimization. Embodiments disclosed include a method of analyzing a process flow in a supply chain context, the method comprising: inputting ( | 2013-01-17 |
20130018697 | SYSTEM TO FORECAST PERFORMANCE OF ONLINE NEWS ARTICLES TO SUGGEST THE OPTIMAL HOMEPAGE LAYOUT TO MAXIMIZE ARTICLE READERSHIP AND READERS STICKINESSAANM GIUFFRIDA; GiovanniAACI CataniaAACO ITAAGP GIUFFRIDA; Giovanni Catania IT - A system that supports the editor of an journal web site into deciding the layout of the homepage of the journal web site; the homepage is divided into a set of zones, and each zone consists of several locations; articles are published into each location; and the system suggests ways to rearrange the articles published in the homepages into different locations within the same zone, in order to maximize the total number of clicks generated by the homepage of the journal web site. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018698 | System and Method for Facilitating the Provision of Situation-Based Value, Service or Response - The present invention provides a structured sentiment expression and management system and method. The present invention can receive sentiment content from at least two contributing users, wherein the received content is structured according to a specific human emotion, gesture or feeling and a level of intensity of the specific human emotion, gesture or feeling. The present invention further displays the received content in a pre-defined and user-selected sentiment category related to the specific human emotion, gesture or feeling. In one embodiment, the present invention facilitates the provision of situation-based value, service or response by permitting outside users to receive and respond to sentiment expressions, as well as by permitting contributing users to submit requests for situation-based value, service or response. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018699 | Automated Omnipresent Real-time Credibility Management System and Methods - Some embodiments provide a credibility management system that aggregates user posts from several social media sites contemporaneously with the posts being published to those sites. The system parses each of the aggregated posts to identify an entity that is targeted in each of the posts and presents the posts to the targeted entities in a real-time manner. The credibility management system computes a score to determine the impact that a user post would have on the credibility of a targeted entity. By presenting the computed scores and aggregated posts to the targeted entities, the credibility management system notifies the targeted entities about what is being said about them across social media, identifies the impact of those posts, and provides a platform whereby the targeted entities can reply in order to mitigate or improve the impact that the posts would have on credibility. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018700 | OPTIMIZING PRODUCT PORTFOLIOS UNDER CUSTOMER CHOICEAANM Ervolina; Thomas R.AACI PoughquagAAST NYAACO USAAGP Ervolina; Thomas R. Poughquag NY USAANM Ettl; Markus R.AACI OssiningAAST NYAACO USAAGP Ettl; Markus R. Ossining NY USAANM Ghosh; SoumyadipAACI PeekSkillAAST NYAACO USAAGP Ghosh; Soumyadip PeekSkill NY USAANM Gresh; Donna LeighAACI Cortlandt ManorAAST NYAACO USAAGP Gresh; Donna Leigh Cortlandt Manor NY USAANM Oh; SechanAACI StanfordAAST CTAACO USAAGP Oh; Sechan Stanford CT US - A method and system are disclosed for managing configurable products via solving an optimization problem. In one embodiment, the method comprises collecting data from a software application and a user; formulating a set of constraints based on the collected data; defining the optimization problem by the set of constraints and an optimization objective; solving the optimization problem using the collected data, the set of constraints, the optimization objective and the objective function via mixed integer programming; and outputting a solution of the optimization problem. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018701 | CAPTURING AND PROCESSING DATA RESPONSIVE TO A TASK ASSOCIATED WITH CONSUMER RESEARCH, SURVEY, OR POLL - A method may include receiving, at a mobile computing device from a server via a network, survey information, where the survey information may include data capture instructions. The method may further include presenting, on a display of the mobile computing device, the data capture instructions and a control for capturing data, where the control for capturing data may be configured upon selection to activate a peripheral feature of the mobile computing device, and where the peripheral feature may be configured to capture one or more of audio content, image content, and video content. The method may further include receiving selection of the control for capturing data, and activating the peripheral feature. The method may further include intercepting capture data, where the capture data was created by the peripheral feature. The method may further include providing, to the server via the network, capture information associated with the capture data. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018702 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONSIVE PROCESS MANAGEMENT DRIVEN BY BUSINESS VISIBILITY AND COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING - A business process management (BPM) system, a business event processing system, and a business visibility system are integrated into a responsive process management platform using standardized messages to permit communication and collaboration among the systems. The BPM system has the capability to model and execute at least one monitoring process including at least one monitoring workstep. This monitoring process makes visible in the BPM system processes of interest that are executing in external systems. The business event processing system and/or the business visibility system have tools to allow users to easily configure those systems to sense events and send appropriate standardized messages to the other systems, can extract and send data to the BPM system, and can send alerts to the BPM system. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018703 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED AND COLLABORATIVE MONITORINGAANM Majeed; BasimAACI Abu DhabiAACO AEAAGP Majeed; Basim Abu Dhabi AEAANM Du; XiaofengAACI IpswichAACO GBAAGP Du; Xiaofeng Ipswich GBAANM Bordbar; BehzadAACI BirminghamAACO GBAAGP Bordbar; Behzad Birmingham GB - A system is provided for monitoring the performance of a service within a business process environment is provided, the system including, locally to said service and preferably for each service: an information collector collecting information about the performance of said service in real-time; a database storing information about the performance of said service over time; and a control unit processing the information collected by said information collector and determining information to be stored in said database. A method of distributed monitoring of the performance of services within a business process environment is also provided. Further aspects provide a system and method for assisting in the design of a business process which determines whether services intended to be included in that process meet a performance criterion and a system and method for monitoring the performance of a plurality of services in a business process environment which determines whether a service which is intended to be used in a business process meets a performance criterion. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018704 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SCHOOL GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES AND RELATED SEARCHES - Method, system, and computer program product for collecting and integrating school information. The method includes collecting boundary data for one or more schools, and determining one or more boundary lines based on at least the collected boundary data. Each of the one or more boundary lines represent a border between a first area assigned to a first school selected from the one or more schools and a second area assigned to a second school selected from the one or more schools. Additionally, the method includes digitizing the one or more boundary lines, and collecting student performance data for the one or more schools. The collected student performance data include first student performance data for the first school and second student performance data for the second school. Moreover, the method includes storing the one or more digitized boundary lines and the student performance data in one or more data stores. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018705 | VEHICLE TRAFFIC AND VEHICLE RELATED TRANSACTION CONTROL SYSTEM - A location enabled mobile wireless device and central system cooperate to provide traffic control such as vehicle inspection site services and toll station services. Traffic control information such as vehicle inspection site information and toll station information is independently processed by a third party provider and sent to the central system. The mobile wireless device monitors its location and sends location and vehicle related information to the central system. The central system compares data from the third party provider and the mobile wireless device. The mobile wireless device or the central system take an action based on the comparison, such as toll payment or vehicle inspection site operations. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018706 | System and Apparatus for Linking Multiple Rewards Programs to Promote the Purchase of Specific Product Mixes - A method and system for linking multiple pre-existing reward programs is disclosed. The method includes receiving information about a first pre-existing reward program for a first product, where the first reward program provides for a first reward, and receiving information about a second pre-existing reward program for a second product, wherein the second reward program provides a second reward. A combination reward program is provided, and the combination reward program provides a combination reward that is greater than each of the first reward and the second reward. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018707 | SELECTIVE COMMUNICATION OF MESSAGES - A message originator may generate messaging data for selective communication by a messaging provider via an interface generated by a browser software application. The user may also interact with various content providers such that event data is generated based on the user interaction with each content provider. The messaging provider can then obtain the messaging data and the event data to determine a target set of messages to be published. Additionally, the messaging provider can select a set of message recipients to receive, or otherwise access, the target set of messages based on filtering criteria submitted by the message originator, content provider, service provider, and/or message recipients. Credit may be allocated based on activity associated with the communicated messages. The messaging provider may also facilitate additional interaction between the message originator and the message recipients including the initiation of additional communication channels. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018708 | SELLER INTERFACE SUPPORTING SELLER TERMS DEFINITION FOR A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018709 | SELLER INTERFACE FOR A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018710 | INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTING ADVERTISEMENT OF BUYER GROUPS IN A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018711 | BUYER GROUP DEFINITION AND ASSOCIATION IN A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018712 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ALLOCATE AND RECYCLE TELEPHONE NUMBERS IN A CALL-TRACKING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, the invention provides a method. The method includes dynamically allocating a telephone number to an advertisement on a just-in-time basis; and if the telephone number is not called for a predefined period of time, then unallocating the telephone number. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018713 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REAL TIME E-COMMERCE PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIESAANM Kumar; AmitAACI San JoseAAST CAAACO USAAGP Kumar; Amit San Jose CA USAANM Brewster; KentAACI East Palo AltoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Brewster; Kent East Palo Alto CA US - Systems and methods for e-commerce promotional activities are provided via an analytics server, which provides real-time information concerning customer visits to an e-commerce Website to a merchant that operates the Website, for example via a dashboard or other user interface. The real-time information allows the merchant to monitor and optionally interact with customers visiting the Website, for example by offering customized promotions designed to influence purchasing decisions. Real-time telemetry concerning the customer visits is provided to the analytics server, which then presents the information in meaningful fashions via the dashboard or user interfaces for review by the merchant. Merchant responses to the information is facilitated via deal engines, recommendation engines, and other components, which may operate according to customized rule sets to implement merchant-desired promotions or policies. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018714 | INCENTIVE THROUGH RELAYING A GEO-SPATIALLY AWARE ADVERTISEMENT TO PROXIMATE PEERSAANM GEORGE; VARUGHESEAACI Union CityAAST CAAACO USAAGP GEORGE; VARUGHESE Union City CA US - A method, an apparatus and/or a system of incentive through relaying a geo-spatially aware advertisement to proximate peers is disclosed. In one aspect a method includes receiving through a multimedia device a media data from an advertisement server that is customized based on a set of characteristics associated with a present location of the multimedia device that nearly simultaneously communicates an information presented on the multimedia device through a transmission module of the multimedia device to a plurality of external observers via a wireless display device communicatively coupled to the multimedia device. The wireless display device is separate from the multimedia device. The method also includes providing a consideration proportional to a value of targeting in a particular geospatial area to an owner of the multimedia device through a payment module of the advertisement server. | 2013-01-17 |
20130018715 | FACILITATING MOBILE DEVICE PAYMENTS USING PRODUCT CODE SCANNING TO ENABLE SELF CHECKOUT - Provided are computer implemented methods and systems for facilitating mobile device payments using product scanning and wireless communication functionality of mobile devices. Using a mobile device, a customer may read product codes and receive product information, which may include a product price, a manufacture date, a manufacturing country, a quantity of products. When reading the product codes, the customer may be also provided with promotional offers and advertising material from a merchant, a mobile payment service provider, or a third party. Upon reading the product codes, the reading may be stored in a list on the mobile device. The user may further send a request to calculate a total price of the products read by the mobile device. The total price may be encoded in a code scannable by a merchant scanning device. | 2013-01-17 |