15th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100094604 | Method For Modelling An Intraocular Lens And Intraocular Lens - The invention relates to a method for modelling an intraocular lens, wherein the shape of at least one surface of the intraocular lens and/or the interior of the intraocular lens with respect to their refraction effect are configured in such a way that with a first orientation within a human eye the intraocular lens at least partially corrects a first visual defect of said human eye and with a second orientation within a human eye the intraocular lens at least partially corrects a second visual defect of said human eye. Further the invention relates to an intraocular lens. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094605 | ITERATIVE MULTI-SCALE METHOD FOR FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA - Computer-implemented iterative multi-scale methods and systems are provided for handling simulation of complex, highly anisotropic, heterogeneous domains. A system and method can be configured to achieve simulation of structures where accurate localization assumptions do not exist. The iterative system and method smoothes the solution field by applying line relaxation in all spatial directions. The smoother is unconditionally stable and leads to sets of tri-diagonal linear systems that can be solved efficiently, such as by the Thomas algorithm. Furthermore, the iterative smoothing procedure, for the improvement of the localization assumptions, does not need to be applied in every time step of the computation. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094606 | System and method for ultrasonic testing - A method of establishing position dependent focal laws and dynamically accessing these focal laws during inspection is disclosed comprising the steps of partitioning a CAD model into distinct geometric regions prior to inspection, generating a dedicated set of focal laws for each of the geometric regions, and associating each position of the scanner with one of the geometric regions. A method of compressing an A-Scan using a windowing technique is also disclosed. Additionally, methods for computing and displaying volumetric slices in real-time are disclosed. Finally, a method of firing multiple probes at different firing frequencies is disclosed, as well as a multi-probe inspection system that enables parallel firing. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094607 | Method of reducing solder wicking on a substrate - This invention relates to a substrate with via and pad structure(s) to reduce solder wicking. Each via and pad structure connects a component to conductive layers associated with the substrate. The substrate includes one or more plated vias, solder mask(s) surrounding the plated vias, and a conductive pad with a conductive trace connected to each plated via. The conductive pad extends beyond the terminal sides to increase solder formation and the solder mask reduces solder formation at the terminal end of the component. The via and pad structure is suitable for a variety of components and high component density. The invention also provides a computer implemented method for calculating the maximum distance of a conductive pad extending beyond the terminal side of a component. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094608 | METHOD OF PROCESSING RIGID BODY INTERACTION IN PARTICLE-BASED FLUID SIMULATION - A method of processing a rigid body interaction in a particle-based fluid simulation includes determining a collision direction based on a normal vector of a pair of input particles and confirming whether parent objects of the particles actually collide against each other after the determination, and calculating a perpendicular impulse based on properties of the parent objects when the collision is confirmed. The method further includes calculating a final collision based boundary force by applying a tangential friction force to the calculated perpendicular impulse to apply the final collision based boundary force to the respective particles. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094609 | Modeling electrical interconnections in three-dimensional structures - Disclosed are apparatus, methods and software that implement a partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method having global basis functions on cylindrical coordinates to determine wide-band resistance, inductance, capacitance, and conductance from a large number of three-dimensional interconnections in order to provide for the electrical design of system-in-package (SIP) modules, and the like. The apparatus, methods and software use a modal equivalent network from mixed potential integral equation with cylindrical conduction and accumulation mode basis functions, which reduces the matrix size for large three-dimensional interconnection problems. Combined with these modal basis functions, the mixed potential integral equations describe arbitrary skin and proximity effects, and allow determination of partial impedance and admittance values. Additional enhancement schemes further reduces the cost for computing the partial inductances. Therefore, the apparatus, methods and software can be used to construct accurate models of a large number of three-dimensional interconnection structures, including more than 100 bonding wires used for stacking integrated circuit chips, through-silicon via interconnections, and the like. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094610 | Circuit simulation model generation apparatus, circuit simulation model generation method and circuit simulation apparatus - A circuit simulation model generation apparatus includes: a power supply wiring model generation section that generates a power supply wiring model which is a model of the power supply wiring; a logic circuit model generation section that generates a logic circuit model which is a model of the logic circuit; and a link section that adds, to the logic circuit model and the power supply wiring model, a voltage controller that acquires a potential value of a logic circuit connecting terminal and gives the acquired potential value to a power supply wiring connecting terminal and a current controller that acquires a current value of the power supply wiring connecting terminal and gives the acquired current value to the logic circuit connecting terminal in the simulation, and links the logic circuit model and the power supply wiring model to generate a simulation model. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FEEDBACK-GUIDED TEST GENERATION FOR CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS USING MONTE-CARLO - A system and method for generating test vectors includes generating traces of a system model or program stored in memory using a simulation engine. Simulated inputs are globally optimized using a fitness objective computed using a computer processing device. The simulation inputs are adjusted in accordance with feedback from the traces and fitness objective values by computing a distance between the fitness objective value and a reachability objective. Test input vectors are output based upon optimized fitness objective values associated with the simulated inputs to test the system model or program stored in memory. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094612 | Systems and Methods to Emulate User Network Activity - Systems and methods to emulate user network activity to change the profiling of users of the network are disclosed. A method includes monitoring network activity corresponding to a particular user. The method includes automatically generating emulated user network activity when a usage pattern is detected in the monitored network activity. The emulated user network activity may be detectable by a user tracking engine as the network activity of the particular user and the user tracking engine may attempt to profile the emulated user activity. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094613 | Device emulation support within a host data processing apparatus - A data processing apparatus | 2010-04-15 |
20100094614 | Machine Learning for Transliteration - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for automatically identifying transliteration pairs are disclosed. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of resources, the plurality of resources including a plurality of anchor text; determining one or more potential transliterations from the plurality of anchor text; and identifying one or more potential transliteration pairs from the one or more potential transliterations, where each potential transliteration pair includes a first anchor text in a first writing system and a second anchor text in a second writing system, the second anchor text and the first anchor text identifying a same resource or location. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094615 | DOCUMENT TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A document translation apparatus includes a document processing module for analyzing associative relations between nouns or noun phrases within an input document to be translated to generate analysis information on texts; and a document translation module for selecting target words for the respective texts in reference to the text analysis information to generate morphemes corresponding to the target words, thereby producing a translated document corresponding to the input document. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094616 | Messaging Translation Services - One embodiment of a method for translating a message can be broadly summarized by the following steps: generating an electronic message in an understood language of an originating party; receiving instructions to translate contents of the electronic message to another language; converting the electronic message to the another language in accordance with the instructions; and delivering the converted electronic message to the receiving party. Other methods and devices are also provided. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094617 | TRANSLATION SUPPORTING PROGRAM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD - In a computer for supporting translation work, an acquisition unit retrieves a pair of original document including a plurality of original sentences and translated document including a plurality of translated sentences from a document storage unit. An estimation unit counts the number of original sentences included in the original document and the number of translated sentences included in the translated document, and estimates a position of a translated sentence corresponding to each original sentence in the translated document based on a ratio of the number of original sentences to the number of translated sentences and a positional order of each original sentence in the original document. An alignment unit aligns each original sentence with the translated sentence located at the estimated position, and outputs information indicating the correspondences between the original and translated sentences. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094618 | Transcription data extraction - A computer program product, for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the transcription for an indicating phrase associated with a type of data desired to be determined from the transcription, the type of desired data being relevant to medical records, determine whether data indicated by text disposed proximately to the indicating phrase is of the desired type, and store an indication of the data if the data is of the desired type. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094619 | AUDIO FREQUENCY REMAPPING - An exemplary system and method are directed at receiving an audio signal and process the audio signal into a remapped audio signal based on a plot profile. The plot profile may include at least one of an identified range of audio frequencies. The processing may comprise retrieving an identified range of audio frequencies from the plot profile; determining a range of impaired audio frequencies in the audio signal based on the identified range of audio frequencies; shifting the frequency of at least a portion of the impaired audio frequencies to outside of the identified range; and continuing to retrieve identified ranges of audio frequencies from the plot profile. The shifting of the impaired audio frequencies of the audio signal may be performed until no further identified ranges of audio frequencies are available for consideration. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094620 | Voice Transcoder - First encoded voice bits are transcoded into second encoded voice bits by dividing the first encoded voice bits into one or more received frames, with each received frame containing multiple ones of the first encoded voice bits. First parameter bits for at least one of the received frames are generated by applying error control decoding to one or more of the encoded voice bits contained in the received frame, speech parameters are computed from the first parameter bits, and the speech parameters are quantized to produce second parameter bits. Finally, a transmission frame is formed by applying error control encoding to one or more of the second parameter bits, and the transmission frame is included in the second encoded voice bits. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094621 | System and Method for Assessing Script Running Time - A method and system for assessing script running time are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a first input from a client, wherein the first input comprises a script, the script comprising spoken audio and video elements. A second input is received from the client, wherein the second input comprises a value of words per minute. A third input is received from the client, wherein the third input comprises a non-verbal duration. A duration of the spoken audio of the script is calculated by multiplying the value of words per minute and the spoken content of the script. A duration of the script is calculated by summing the duration of the spoken audio and the non-verbal duration and the duration of the script is returned to the client. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094622 | FEATURE NORMALIZATION FOR SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING - Systems, method, and apparatus for processing a speech utterance or audio record that includes receiving one or more feature vectors characterizing the speech utterance or audio record, each feature vector having a plurality of feature elements, each feature element being associated with a spectral representation of a characteristic of one of a plurality of sequential segments of the speech utterance or audio record; and processing the one or more feature vectors in a rank order filter to obtain one or more normalized feature vectors, each normalized feature vector having a plurality of normalized feature elements corresponding to the plurality of feature elements. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094623 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD - Provided is an encoding device which performs a fixed sound source codebook search with a small calculation amount even in a low-bit rate sound encoding without lowering the encoding efficiency. In the encoding device, a threshold value calculation unit ( | 2010-04-15 |
20100094624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE-BASED DETERMINATION OF SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY IN AN AIRCRAFT DURING FLIGHT OPERATIONS - A method for effecting a machine-based determination of speech intelligibility in an aircraft during flight operations includes: (a) in no particular order: (1) providing a representation of a machine-based speech evaluating signal; and (2) providing a representation of in-flight noise; (b) combining the representation of a machine-based speech evaluation signal and the representation of in-flight noise to obtain a combined noise signal; and (c) employing the combined noise signal to present the machine-based determination of speech intelligibility in an aircraft during flight operations. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094625 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NOISE ESTIMATION - A system and method are disclosed for noise level/spectrum estimation and speech activity detection. Some embodiments include a probabilistic model to estimate noise level and subsequently detect the presence of speech. These embodiments outperform standard voice activity detectors (VADs), producing improved detection in a variety of noisy environments. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094626 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING SPEECH KEYWORD AND SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for locating a keyword of a speech and a speech recognition system. The method includes the steps of: by extracting feature parameters from frames constituting the recognition target speech, forming a feature parameter vector sequence that represents the recognition target speech; by normalizing of the feature parameter vector sequence with use of a codebook containing a plurality of codebook vectors, obtaining a feature trace of the recognition target speech in a vector space; and specifying the position of a keyword by matching prestored keyword template traces with the feature trace. According to the present invention, a keyword template trace and a feature space trace of a target speech are drawn in accordance with an identical codebook. This causes resampling to be unnecessary in performing linear movement matching of speech wave frames having similar phonological feature structures. This makes it possible to improve the speed of location and recognition while ensuring the precision of recognition. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094627 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF TAGS FOR USER GENERATED CONTENT - A method and system for automatically identifying tags for a media item. An audio track associated with a media item is analyzed. References to individuals in the audio track are compared to known acquaintances of a user. Matches are identified as potential tags. Duplicate matches can be presented to the user for resolution. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094628 | System and Method for Latency Reduction for Automatic Speech Recognition Using Partial Multi-Pass Results - A system and method is provided for reducing latency for automatic speech recognition. In one embodiment, intermediate results produced by multiple search passes are used to update a display of transcribed text. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094629 | WEIGHT COEFFICIENT LEARNING SYSTEM AND AUDIO RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A weighting factor learning system includes an audio recognition section that recognizes learning audio data and outputting the recognition result; a weighting factor updating section that updates a weighting factor applied to a score obtained from an acoustic model and a language model so that the difference between a correct-answer score calculated with the use of a correct-answer text of the learning audio data and a score of the recognition result becomes large; a convergence determination section that determines, with the use of the score after updating, whether to return to the weighting factor updating section to update the weighting factor again; and a weighting factor convergence determination section that determines, with the use of the score after updating, whether to return to the audio recognition section to perform the process again and update the weighting factor using the weighting factor updating section. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094630 | ASSOCIATING SOURCE INFORMATION WITH PHONETIC INDICES - The present invention relates to creating a phonetic index of phonemes from an audio segment that includes speech content from multiple sources. The phonemes in the phonetic index are directly or indirectly associated with the corresponding source of the speech from which the phonemes were derived. By associating the phonemes with a corresponding source, the phonetic index of speech content from multiple sources may be searched based on phonetic content as well as the corresponding source. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094631 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING AN OUTPUT SIGNAL - An apparatus for synthesizing a rendered output signal having a first audio channel and a second audio channel includes a decorrelator stage for generating a decorrelator signal based on a downmix signal, and a combiner for performing a weighted combination of the downmix signal and a decorrelated signal based on parametric audio object information, downmix information and target rendering information. The combiner solves the problem of optimally combining matrixing with decorrelation for a high quality stereo scene reproduction of a number of individual audio objects using a multichannel downmix. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094632 | System and Method of Developing A TTS Voice - Disclosed herein are various aspects of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The embodiments in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of the invention relates to a method of tracking progress in developing a text-to-speech (TTS) voice. The method comprises insuring that a corpus of recorded speech contains reading errors and matches an associated written text, creating a tuple for each utterance in the corpus and tracking progress for each utterance utilizing the tuple. Various parameters may be tracked using the tuple but the tuple provides a means for enabling multiple workers to efficiently process a database of utterance in preparation of a TTS voice. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094633 | VOICE ANALYSIS DEVICE, VOICE ANALYSIS METHOD, VOICE ANALYSIS PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION CIRCUIT - A sound analysis device comprises: a sound parameter calculation unit operable to acquire an audio signal and calculate a sound parameter for each of partial audio signals, the partial audio signals each being the acquired audio signal in a unit of time; a category determination unit operable to determine, from among a plurality of environmental sound categories, which environmental sound category each of the partial audio signals belongs to, based on a corresponding one of the calculated sound parameters; a section setting unit operable to sequentially set judgement target sections on a time axis as time elapses, each of the judgment target sections including two or more of the units of time, the two or more of the units of time being consecutive; and an environment judgment unit operable to judge, based on a number of partial audio signals in each environmental sound category determined in at least a most recent judgment target section, an environment that surrounds the sound analysis device in at least the most recent judgment target section. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094634 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING FACE CHARACTER BASED ON VOICE - An apparatus and method of creating a face character which corresponds to a voice of a user is provided. To create various facial expressions with fewer key models, a face character is divided in a plurality of areas and a voice sample is parameterized corresponding to pronunciation and emotion. If the user's voice is input, a face character image corresponding to divided face areas is synthesized using key models and data about parameters corresponding to the voice sample to synthesize an overall face character image using the synthesized face character image corresponding to the divided face areas. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094635 | System for Voice-Based Interaction on Web Pages - SYSTEM FOR VOICE-BASE INTERACTION ON WEB PAGES, of type that permits the incorporation of voice-handling functions on a Web page, in which from a Terminal ( | 2010-04-15 |
20100094636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SECURITY SYSTEM - A system and method for operating a security system include a device control module configured for electronic communication with a plurality of devices and a user interface coupled in electronic communication with the device control module. The user interface includes a voice memory and a first speaker. The user interface is configured to receive a first system event from the device control module identifying a first condition detected by the security system. The user interface is further configured to retrieve a voice message from the voice memory corresponding to the first system event and transmit the voice message via the first speaker. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094637 | ARBITRARY SHAPING OF TEMPORAL NOISE ENVELOPE WITHOUT SIDE-INFORMATION - In a first aspect, arbitrary shaping of the temporal envelope of noise is provided in spectral domain coding systems without the need of side-information. In the encoding, a filtered measure of quantization error is applied as a feedback signal to the frequency-domain representation of a discrete time-domain signal prior to quantization, so that the filtering parameters of said filtering affect the shaping of quantization noise in the time domain of the quantized frequency-domain representation of the discrete time-domain signal when it is inversely transformed from the frequency domain back to the time domain in decoding. This may be accomplished with respect to each of a plurality of frequency bins or groups of bins. In another aspect, frequency-domain noise-feedback quantizing in digital audio encoding is provided. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094638 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DECIDING ADAPTIVE NOISE LEVEL FOR BANDWIDTH EXTENSION - An apparatus and method for deciding an adaptive noise level for bandwidth extension are provided. The apparatus includes a noise level decider for deciding a high-band noise level for bandwidth extension according to tonality of an input signal, a pitch frequency analyzer for detecting a pitch frequency of the input signal and analyzing correlation between the detected pitch frequency and a frequency channel, and a noise level controller for adaptively controlling the decided high-band noise level based on the analyzed correlation of the pitch frequency and the frequency channel. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094639 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING DIGITAL CONTENT ITEMS - Methods and arrangements for identifying content, and employing such identification, are detailed. One method embeds a plural-bit digital watermark into content, but first checks to see if the content is previously watermarked. Another method applies a digital watermark detection procedure to only a sub-portion of a digital content item. Yet another arrangement involves plural-portion content, where one portion is watermarked with first data governing its rights management, and another portion is watermarked with second data governing its rights management. Still another method concerns distribution of content items, where each is watermarked with a unique ID as part of the distribution process. Yet another method concerns deriving an identifier from content, and using the content to access related metadata from a remote computer system. Still other methods concern arrangements for recognizing content, and then providing links to information about the content creator, etc., in response. A variety of other technologies and improvements are also detailed. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094640 | AUDIO ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE - Audio encoding method and device comprising the transmission, in addition to the data representing a frequency-limited signal, of information relating to a temporal filter that can be applied to the entire broadened signal, both in its transmitted low-frequency part and in its reconstituted high-frequency part. The application of this filter allowing the reshaping the reconstituted high-frequency part and the correction of compression artefacts present in the transmitted low-frequency part. In this way, the application of the temporal filter, simple and inexpensive, to all or part of the reconstituted signal. makes it possible to obtain a signal of good perceived quality. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094641 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT - An audio signal processing circuit is provided which comprises an ADC which samples an audio signal at a predetermined sampling frequency, a high-band compensation processor which compensates a signal sampled by the ADC to a frequency band which is higher than a signal band sampled by the sampling frequency, and an encoding unit which encodes a signal processed by the high-band compensation processor. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094642 | METHOD OF LOST FRAME CONSEALMENT AND DEVICE - A device for lost frame concealment comprises: a lost frame detector for detecting whether a voice frame is lost, a decoding module for decoding the current voice frame, a low band delay module for delaying the low band signal, a low band signal recovering module for recovering the lost low band signal, a high band lost frame concealment module for processing the lost frame concealment for the high band signal, and a QMF synthesis filter for synthetically filtering the low band signal and the high band signal. The invention makes full use of the delay of the coding/decoding device itself, enhances the effect of lost frame concealment for the low band signal and the high band signal, and introduces no nearby delay during the process of lost frame concealment. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094643 | Systems and methods for reconstructing decomposed audio signals - Systems and methods for reconstructing decomposed audio signals are presented. In exemplary embodiments, a decomposed audio signal is received. The decomposed audio signal may include a plurality of frequency sub-band signals having successively shifted group delays as a function of frequency from a filter bank. The plurality of frequency sub-band signals may then be grouped into two or more groups. A delay function may be applied to at least one of the two or more groups. Subsequently, the groups may be combined to reconstruct the audio signal, which may be outputted accordingly. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094644 | Microbilling using a trust management system - The present invention provides a microbilling system that integrates with existing billing systems and existing devices. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the devices store digital certificates with short-lived expiration dates and specifying transaction limits, preferably using a trust management system. A provisioning agent periodically (e.g., once a day) issues the certificates over a secure channel to the devices. When conducting a purchase transaction, the devices exchange certificates via a communication channel (that need not be secure) and the purchasing device issues a digitally signed electronic check which is periodically deposited over an advantageously secure channel with a clearing service. The present invention enables microbilling transactions by embedding liability in the certificates. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094645 | ERGONOMICS-BASED HEALTH FACILITATOR FOR COMPUTER USERS - A method, system and computer program product for facilitating ergonomics-based health in a user of a computer workstation is presented. The method includes the steps of detecting an ergonomics problem for a user of a computer workstation, wherein the ergonomics problem is directly related to a current real-time body position of the user, and wherein the ergonomics problem would likely cause an injury to the user if left uncorrected. A user health protection algorithm is then executed to generate an ergonomic recommendation. The user health protection algorithm utilizes user work parameters as inputs. The ergonomic recommendation, which will correct the ergonomics problem, is then presented to the user. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094646 | PATIENT HEALTH CARE NETWORK GUIDED ENCOUNTER - In an environment where it is beneficial for chronic health care patients to receive individualized attention on a daily basis, a health care network ( | 2010-04-15 |
20100094647 | Medical Service Support System, Medical Service Support Method and Computer Readable Medium - A medical service support system includes: a first input unit that inputs first patient information on a patient in carrying out a medical examination of the patient; a second input unit that inputs second patient information on the patient in executing, to the patient, a pretreatment of an inspection being ordered according to a medical examination result of the patient; a memory that stores the first patient information inputted by the first input unit and the second patient information inputted by the second input unit; a consistency judging unit that judges match or mismatch of respective common items contained in both of the first patient information and the second patient information stored in the memory, by comparing the first patient information with the second patient information for each common item; and a display unit that displays a consistency judgment result by the consistency judging unit. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094648 | AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL DATA USING EXPERT KNOWLEDGE AND APPLIED COMPLEXITY SCIENCE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSES - A knowledgebase comprising a plurality of feature-sets is created using complexity science. The knowledgebase is accessible through a network to a computer, a system, and a computer program code that receives and analyzes medical data to determine the existence of a disease state. The medical data is input and correlated to features within the knowledgebase to identify feature-sets, each feature-set indicating a particular medical condition. After one or more feature-sets have been selected, associative algorithms consider the magnitudes or values of the medical data and, with the values of features in the feature-sets, assess the risk burden of the medical condition associated with the feature-set. An output is generated that may include diagnoses of one or more medical conditions, the risk burden of the medical condition(s), possible treatment options and prevention techniques. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094649 | MEDICAL DATA AND MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND COMMUNICATION - A method for coding medical data is described. Medical data is obtained. A computing device determines whether the medical data in a case matches a code or a code mapping. A computing device codes the case if the medical data matches a code. Coding includes assigning a specific code to the case if the medical data matches the specific code. The computing device generates a bill for the case based on the specific code if the medical data matches the specific code. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094650 | Methods and system for capturing and managing patient consents to prescribed medical procedures - A method of capturing patient consents to a prescribed medical procedures. Patient accounts are created on a computerized patient consent management system. The system authenticates a login attempt by a patient and displays a visual representation of a prescribed medical procedure to the patient. The patient consent management system presents at least one consent request input field for accepting a consent input from the patient and stores the consent input as part of the patient account. The patient consent management system presents the consent input to at least one care giver in order to determine if the patient has given consent to the prescribed medical procedure. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094651 | System and method for auctioning medical services - Systems and methods for auctioning medical services, and more particularly to automated systems offering buyers of radiology services a means to place orders for radiology services up for bid to pre-qualified radiologists. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094652 | System, method, and a computer program product for networking healthcare professionals - A system, method, and computer program product for networking healthcare professionals in a manner which is fully complaint with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). | 2010-04-15 |
20100094653 | MANAGEMENT, REPORTING AND BENCHMARKING OF MEDICATION PREPARATION - A system for preparing and managing patient-specific dose orders includes an order processing server configured to receive the patient-specific dose orders, define a queue of dose orders and distribute the dose orders to at least one dose preparation station. The dose preparation station is in bi-directional communication with the order processing server and has an interface for providing an operator with a protocol associated with each received drug order and specifying a set of steps to fill the drug order. Steps to fill the drug order are captured at the station and a display, positionable independent of the station outputs the dose order queue and metrics concerning activity at the dose preparation station. Systems for preparing patient-specific doses and a method for telepharmacy in which data captured while following the protocol are provided to a remote site for review and approval by a pharmacist. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094654 | IMPLANTABLE STORAGE DEVICE FOR MAINTAINING MEDICAL RECORDS - An implantable device to store electronic medical records (EMR) is described. The implantable medical records (IMR) device has read/write capabilities and incorporates a battery, integrated circuits, transceiving functionality and storage medium. The device is implanted subcutaneously through minimally invasive surgery in the desired location in the patient. The patient's medical records are then stored and updated on the device and are available to authorized health care professionals via the external components of the system. The external components of the system include a reader/programmer with transceiving functionality and required interface software so that authorized health care professionals may extract the medical records on the device as well as write to the device as necessary to keep the health records in the IMR device up-to-date. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094655 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING A WEB-BASED RESOURCE WITH AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD - A data processing system and method that, in some cases, include an EMR system and a web server. In some cases, the EMR system includes a plurality of electronic medical records for a plurality of patients. One or more of the electronic medical records may include a URL or HTTP Post message that defines a path to a web-based resource, such as a treatment algorithm or medical calculator. In some embodiments, the URL and/or HTTP Post message is constructed based on information in a patient's medical record. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094656 | Physician documentation workflow management methods - Improved systems and methods for collecting Protected Health Information (PHI) with or without the assistance of a physician scribe are described. Documenting a patient encounter utilizing a template-based charting system (either electronic or paper-based), and the tracking of this document status and patient clinical status throughout the encounter, for purposes of managing multiple patients and multiple patients' documents, as well as improved communication between providers and assistants. The systems and methods of this invention generally comprise an electronic records system for creating and maintaining information in electronic records; patient tracking system (either computerized or not) for managing tasks specific to provider documentation of specific clinical care actions and patient clinical status; complimentary utilization of medical history questionnaires which are designed to correlate with template-based charting tools; methods of communication between provider assistants (including physician assistants, nurses, secretaries, scribes, patients, or other assistants) to convey the status of the collection and management of the PHI, including patient history, patient examination, testing results, medical decision making, patient disposition plan, follow-up information and other elements of provider charting of PHI; sequence of patient tracking indicators that represent steps in the care of the patient, status of the document, and clinical or documentation-related tasks for completion by providers or provider assistants; improvements on a real-time compliance system for identifying the specific stage or status of each electronic record, and allowing providers and assistants to track this completion status, thereby streamlining documentation and compliance workflows. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094657 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED MEDICAL RECORDS PROCESSING - A method and system for automated medical records processing. The method and system includes plural electronic medical templates specifically designed such that they reduce the complexity and risk associated with collecting patient encounter information, creating a medical diagnosis and help generate the appropriate number and type medical codes for a specific type of medical practice when processed. The medical codes and other types of processed patient encounter information are displayed in real-time on electronic medical records and invoices immediately after a patient encounter. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094658 | PATIENT DIRECTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDICAL INFORMATION - A system and method is provided for the management of a patient's medical records by a central data repository under the direction of the patient and enabled by an entity managing records on behalf of the patient. Medical records from a plurality of the patient's healthcare providers, including past and present healthcare providers, are maintained in this central repository in a way that provides a centralized, comprehensive, and accessible medical history of the patient, as well as a comprehensive organizational structure across all records. An embodiment has the patient directed central repository as the hub in a hub-and-spoke arrangement, where each spoke goes to one of the patient's healthcare providers, both past and present. The patient's medical records are collected from all the patient's healthcare providers, then classified, stored, and organized for use by the patient, healthcare providers, and any other authorized individuals. The records in the repository can be sorted and/or selected in several different ways and displayed to the patient or to his designated medical care providers, and to certain patient designated third parties. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094659 | Consolidation of Consumer Interactions within a Medical Brokerage System - In general in one aspect, agenda items are generated based on a consumer's one or more interactions with a system. The agenda items are consolidated into an agenda, a graphical user interface is produced that when rendered on a display displays the agenda, and a request from the consumer to interact with one or more of the agenda items is received. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094660 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTRATION OF COSTS RELATED TO ANNUITIES - A system for administration of an insurance annuity account has a processor and a memory. The processor receives a net asset value of the account at a commencement of a first period and a charge applicable to the account based on a fraction of the net asset value of the account; on a basis of a second period, shorter than the first period, throughout the first period: the processor calculates a fractional charge based on the net asset value of the account, and updates the net asset value by decrementing the net asset value in the amount of the fractional charge. At the end of the first period, the processor compares a charge for the first period based on the net asset value of the account on one day during the first period to a sum of the fractional charges for the first period, and increases the net asset value by the difference if the first period charge is less than the sum of the fractional charges. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DETERMINING AND APPLYING INSURANCE PROFIT SCORES - Preferred embodiments of the invention include a new and innovative method and system of determining a profit score for an individual policy, which score may be used to evaluate the desirability of offering or renewing individual insurance policies. The present invention also may be applied to determine the profitability of aggregate books of business, which may be offered by individual insurance agents or agencies, whether captive or independent. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094662 | Method and system for provision and acquisition of medical services and products - Transactional costs associated with providing professional services are reduced by allowing prospective patients/clients (bidders) and professional service providers to negotiate competitively for desired fees for proffered services through an interactive on-line communications network such as the Internet. In an exemplary arrangement, a transaction system includes a communications network server that interfaces and communicates online with client computer systems belonging to various prospective bidders and personal medical service providers using, for example, an exchange of HTML documents and/or JAVA script applets. A transaction system server handles online communications and procedures for conducting auctions for delivery of proffered services and maintains a registration database of service providers and bidders. An authentication/qualifier engine automatically researches and verifies service provider credentials and background information upon registration of a service provider with the system. Service provider qualification credentials and medical procedural code information databases as well as one or more search engines for verifying and/or researching the qualifications of a particular service provider are provided and made available to a bidder via, for example, a web-page menu driven interface. A service feedback interface and database are provided for handling online feedback information and comments from patients/clients and providers regarding the complexity and quality of services received or provided. The transaction system may also include remote client system software/hardware facilities for bidders and providers for providing customized database and computational services for communicating and participating in online bidding activities. An integrated life and health insurance product that integrates competitive bidding for health services with usage of death benefit equity for the purpose of life prolongation. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094663 | HEALTH PLAN ENROLLMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to certain on-line health and benefits plan enrollment systems and methods of use thereof. According to certain embodiments of the present invention, systems are provided for enrolling employees in, and administering, one or more employee health plans. Such embodiments generally comprise at least one server that is capable of hosting a website that may be accessed by an employer via the internet. The website preferably comprises an employer enrollment portal that allows an employer to establish itself as the health care plan administrator. The employer enrollment portal is preferably capable of submitting various types of information to the server, such as the name and address of the employer, payroll information, employer bank information, health plan co-pay amounts, required employee contribution amounts and frequency, enrollment data, or any combination of the foregoing. The website preferably further comprises an employer plan management portal that allows the employer to manage and modify the employee health plan. Still further, the website preferably comprises an employee plan management portal that allows employees to manage and modify their health plans. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094664 | INSURANCE CLAIMS AND RATE EVASION FRAUD SYSTEM BASED UPON VEHICLE HISTORY - A system and method of identifying warning signs of fraud associated with vehicle insurance transactions is presented. The system and method operate by identifying a vehicle, retrieving vehicle history information about the vehicle and determining if the vehicle history information indicates potential fraud based on factors which show a relationship between said vehicle history information and potential fraud incidents. Inferences related to an insurance claim or quote are made based on the results of the determination. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094665 | Life insurance products under a single approved form - A system and method for generating life insurance products under a single approved form. In one aspect, a system and method are provided for determining a premium schedule by selecting a death benefit; targeting a projected balance of an account associated with the product; designating at least one premium band; generating, in response to a deferral determination for at least one premium-based charge for at least one premium band, factors for allocating charges associated with the product; and calculating the premium schedule. In another aspect, a system and method are provided for determining a death benefit, and in another aspect, a system and method are provided for determining a projected balance of an account associated with a life insurance product. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094666 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND TRANSMITTING PAYROLL-RELATED DATA FOR INSURANCE TRANSACTIONS - A computer system accesses payroll-related insurance premium data at an individual employee level and provides the data at the individual employee level, including cost of insurance at the individual employee level, on a client device. A computer system compares stored data with payroll data and identifies employees lacking occupation classification information for payroll-based premium determination. The computer system provides a fillable form on a user device for the user to provide occupation classification data, and receives the occupation classification data. The computer system provides fillable forms on a user device for a user to provide payroll data for receipt by the system, runs business rules on the received payroll data, determines premiums for payroll-based insurance coverage. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094667 | INSURANCE PRODUCTS AND RELATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A method of structuring a life insurance product includes: selecting one or more insureds from a pool of applicants; collecting at least one premium payment, the at least one premium payment comprising a charge for cost of insurance; issuing at least one policy covering the one or more insureds, the at least one policy having a cash value and a death benefit; placing the at least one premium payment into an account, thereby populating the account with assets; investing the assets thereby generating a rate of return; tying the cash value and death benefit amounts to the rate of return; creating a mortality fluctuation reserve, adding the mortality fluctuation reserve to the account, and investing the reserve; and calculating a mortality experience credit upon satisfying certain criteria. Associated data processing methods and systems are also described. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094668 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING A RESERVATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CALENDAR APPOINTMENT - According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for making a reservation associated with a calendar appointment is presented. The method includes monitoring a calendar application for reservation type appointments. In response to identifying a reservation type appointment, the method determines whether a network reservation may be made with a service provider associated with the reservation type appointment. If a network reservation may be made with the service provider, the method automatically enters in information for making the network reservation with data retrieved from the reservation type appointment and submitting the network reservation to the service provider. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094669 | Conditional Purchase Offer Management System - A conditional purchase offer (CPO) management system is disclosed for receiving CPOs from one or more customers, such as airline passengers, and for evaluating the received CPOs against a number of CPO rules defined by a plurality of sellers, such as airlines, to determine whether any seller is willing to accept a given CPO. A CPO is a binding offer containing one or more conditions submitted by a customer for purchase of an item, such as airline travel, at a customer-defined price. A CPO rule is a set of restrictions defined by a given seller, such as an airline, to define a combination of restrictions for which the seller is willing to accept a predefined price. The CPO rules may be securely stored by one or more servers. The CPO management system permits a seller to correct for forecasting errors, if necessary, or other competitive forces which have produced excess capacity, by providing inventory for sale to CPO customers. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094670 | Interfacing A Building Contractor And A User - A data processing system for and a computer implemented method of providing an interface between a contractor of a building including units and a user related to some units. The data processing system includes an interface server connected to the contractor and to the user and including a graphical user interface, an analyzing module and a physical rules implementation module. The system receives construction plans, converts them to system objects, determines the associations among the system objects, applies physical rules to the system objects, allows the user to define changes to the system objects, calculates effects of the user defined changes on other system objects in the unit, verifies their feasibility and provides the changes in the plans to the contractor. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094671 | PIN-less Debit Payment Processing - This document describes tools for providing PIN-less debit (PLD) processing for a client, such as a merchant. In some embodiments, the tools intercept a request from a client to process a payment transaction for a consumer. If PLD processing is available for the transaction, the tools provide an indication to the client that PLD processing is an available option for processing the payment transaction. If the tools receive an indication that the consumer has opted to process the payment as a PLD transaction, the tools negotiate with a payment processor for fulfillment of the payment transaction. The tools are configured to handle one or more of the certification and compliance procedures required to process PLD transactions with a payment processor, thus allowing the client to process PLD transactions without having a direct payment processing relationship with a payment processor that offers PLD transaction processing. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094672 | Equation to monitor the economic vitality of nations and other social systems - This invention is a ratio (or equation) to monitor the economic well-being of nations and other social systems: V=R:N (economic vitality M is determined by the natural resources [R] available to a social system, in relation to the system's resource needs [N]). With clear and specific definitions of products, natural resources, social systems, and other related terms that make said ratio viable, said ratio can be programmed into a system-wide computer network, accepting input relating to needs and resources from throughout the system and issuing an alert in the event of a negative ratio (a condition in which needs for any specific resource exceed the system's access to that resource). | 2010-04-15 |
20100094673 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KEYWORD BIDDING - A computer-implemented method and system for keyword bidding are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes identifying a keyword searched by a buyer on a host site just prior to their purchase transaction; recording a host site category associated with the purchase transaction; correlating the keyword with the host site category; determining a revenue per click value associated with the keyword; obtaining bidding information associated with the keyword; and automatically generating a bid value for the keyword based on the revenue per click value, the bidding information, and the host site category. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094674 | Supply Chain Management Systems and Methods - Supply chain management (SCM) systems and methods are presented. In SCM ecosystems having multiple independent trading partners that can functions as peers, the trading partners likely lack a “single version of truth” with respect to retail data formats or transactions. The partners can utilize database connectors to interact with other peer partners by converting the partner's retail data from proprietary formats to a common transaction format understood by all connectors or by an SCM application stack constructed from SCM modules. The connectors can use a registry server to discover other connectors capable participating in a requested transaction relationship. SCM modules can be configured to support a transaction relationship according to the transaction relationships available to the peers' connectors. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094675 | PHASE-OUT PRODUCT DEMAND FORECASTING - A system and method for generating or adjusting a demand forecast for a phased-out product is described. A demand forecast may be generated based on the historical data for the phased-out product and trends found in similar products that have been phased-out. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094676 | CLOSED LOOP SELF CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE WITHIN A DOCUMENT PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT - The present application relates to techniques for closed loop monitoring and performance control of document processing equipment within a document processing facility. In particular, a maintenance feedback system and related methods for coordinating service actions for document processing equipment are disclosed, for determining the impact that an identified fault correction or performance service has on the actual operational performance of the document processing equipment. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094677 | PRIORITIZING PROBLEMS IN IT SERVICES - In an embodiment, the invention provides a method of prioritizing problems in IT services. The method comprises determining a plurality of N problems. An incident cost, a workaround cost, an expected resolution cost, and a total cost for each of the N problems is determined. A priority is assigned to each of the N problems such that each priority has an expected resolution time. The priorities are assigned such that the total cost for fixing all N problems is lower than any other selection of priorities. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DELAY NOTIFICATIONS - The disclosed embodiments present a system and method for providing delay notifications to attendees/virtual receptionists associated with an identified delayed calendar appointment. In addition, the disclosed embodiments provide automatic rescheduling of a delayed calendar appointment. Further, the disclosed embodiments provide advance tracking delay notifications by monitoring a user's current location in relation to a location of a scheduled calendar appointment. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094679 | ESTABLISHING AND MANAGING MENTOR-PROTEGE RELATIONSHIPS - Methods, systems and computer readable medium for establishing a relationship between a mentor and a protégé in a workplace. The relationship is established after executing a query of a database to find matches between attributes of a requesting prospective protégé and attributes of a number of candidate mentors, where the database stores attributes of each candidate mentor. The requesting prospective protégé and the candidate mentors are both employed in the workplace, and the matches are determined in accordance with a policy of the workplace. Based on results of the query, an invitation is made to a first candidate mentor. The invitation includes attributes of the requesting prospective protégé and a request that the first candidate mentor accept a mentor-protégé relationship with the requesting protégé. The prospective protégé is notified of an identity and selected attributes of the first candidate mentor only after the first candidate mentor accepts the request. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS - A centralized web-based system and method for managing appointments having a user interface that interacts with one or more users to display one or more items based on user input, a management module connected to the user interface and configured to receive data related to scheduling an appointment, determine one or more possible appointments based on the data, present the one or more possible appointments, receive a user selection from the one or more possible appointments, and schedule the appointment based on the user selection, and one or more databases configured to store appointment information, wherein the one or more databases are connected to the management module and wherein the data comprises a date and time slot and at least one of a facility, a service, and a servicer. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094681 | System and Method for Electronically Assisting a Customer at a Product Retail Location - A method is disclosed for electronically assisting a customer through a buying cycle at a product retail location having a product oriented display. The method includes sensing an amount of time the customer is interested in the display. Another operation is determining the customer's stage in a product buying cycle based on the amount of time the customer is interested in the display and displaying product detail based on the customer's stage in the buying cycle. The display can be changed to a subsequent stage in the buying cycle having more time and interaction between the customer and the display. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094682 | DYNAMIC GEO-LOCATION PARAMETER FOR DETERMINING AN IMPACT OF ONLINE BEHAVIOR ON OFFLINE SALES - Online behavior of users related to a product is captured. Also, offline sales for the product is also captured. Geo-location parameters are also determined for the captured online and offline data. Using the geo-location parameters and captured data for the product, a smallest geo-location parameter of statistical significance for estimating an impact of the online behavior on offline sales is determined. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094683 | DYNAMIC ONLINE EXPERIENCE MODIFICATION AND INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION BASED ON STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT GEO-LOCATION PARAMETER - An online experience of a user is dynamically configured at the micro-regional level based to achieve an objective associated with sales of a product. A catchment zone is determined, which identifies the geographic region associated with the objective and the product. The online user experience for users in the catchment zone is modified to achieve the objective. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094684 | PARTICIPANT DATA GATHERING FOR EXPERIENCE MARKETING EVENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to marketing and provide a novel and non-obvious method, computer system and computer program product for collecting information at experience marketing events. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for collecting information from participants at an experience marketing event is provided. The method can include collecting written information from a participant at a computer terminal and collecting location information from the participant in a defined location of the experience marketing event, wherein the location information is collected from an electronic marker worn by the participant. The method may further include collecting game play data from the participant via a video game provided at the experience marketing event and recording the written information, the location information and the game play data in a record associated with an identity of the participant. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VALUE FOR AN ENTITY - One embodiment relates to a system for valuing an entity. In at least one embodiment, the system can be utilized over a computer network. The system can include a processor, computer or means for determining a financial value via at least one calculation, a processor, computer or means for determining a trust value via at least one calculation, a processor, computer or means for determining a total value by combining a determination of a financial value and a trust value, and a processor, computer or means for presenting the total value to an entity. In addition, in at least one embodiment, there is also a process for valuing an entity comprising determining a financial value via at least one calculation and then determining a trust value via at least one calculation, and then determining a total value by combining a determination of a financial value and a trust value and then presenting the total value to an entity. This process can be performed using a processor, computer or computer network. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094686 | Interactive live events - An interactive event allows clients to provide feedback to the performing artist and/or producers relative to the event being observed. Feedback options include shout outs, emotapplause, and voting. Ticket scarcity management system adjusts event promotion and ticketed sales methodologies to maintain optimal sales conditions for an interactive event. Multiple camera angles of an interactive event are simultaneously distributed as part of a broadcast to enable switching between cameras by the audience members without interruption of the presentation of the event. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094687 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPORTING PRODUCTIVITY - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for assessing the productivity of workers employing vehicles at worksites. Devices are provided for characterizing vehicle usage into a variety of vehicle status categories. The time spent by the vehicle in the various status categories may be compared against relevant standards in order to provide useful measures of the vehicle's productivity. This productivity information may be further provided to a interface device on a continuous or periodic basis so as to allow the operator, construction managers and clients to easily access the information. These measures of productivity may be further combined with geographical information systems (GIS) in order to provide reports of productivity having a geographical context which yield further insights. From this information, appropriate incentives and sanctions may be provided to vehicle operators in order to reward or change behaviors, helping to maintain and enhance productivity. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094688 | DRIVER TRAINING SYSTEMS - A computer system that is configured to: (A) define a geofence surrounding a geographic area; (B) gather information associated with the geofenced area; and (C) assign one or more parameters to the geofenced area based on the information gathered, wherein at least one of the assigned parameters is used to monitor the performance of a delivery vehicle driver while the delivery vehicle driver is operating a delivery vehicle within the geofenced area. In particular embodiments, the parameters include a backup limit defining a number of times a delivery vehicle operating within the geofenced area is permitted to back up while operating the delivery vehicle within the geofenced area (e.g., during a particular delivery cycle). In other embodiments, the parameters include a maximum speed limit for the geofenced area. The system may be adapted to automatically generate an alert in response to the delivery vehicle operating outside of the defined parameters. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094689 | Method, System, and Graphical User Interface For Coupon or Advertisement Delivery - A method, system, and graphical user interface for delivering coupons when a user of a mobile communication device sends an electronic message and is waiting for an electronic message delivery confirmation is described. At a server, an electronic message is received from a mobile communication device. The server forwards the electronic message to a server associated with a recipient of the electronic message. The server causes concurrent display of an electronic message delivery progress message and a coupon at the mobile communication device. In response to receiving an acknowledgement from the server associated with the recipient of the electronic message that the electronic message has been stored for the recipient, the server causes display of a delivery completion message at the mobile communication device that the electronic message has been delivered. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094690 | CONSOLIDATED CONSUMER REWARDS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A consumer tracking and rewards system and related methods that provide for consolidating two or more merchant-branded rewards accounts into a single source. A single unique identifier referred to as a consumer number used to track and credit purchases with respect to multiple retail establishments. The consumer number may exist simply as a data element in the system or may be printed, bar coded, or programmed onto any physical medium or device. Components of the system include a consumer rewards platform, a merchant-consumer rewards system and potentially a card vendor system. The consumer rewards platform facilitates communication and the transfer of data between the various components of the system. A cross-reference between single consumer numbers and one or more merchant rewards program numbers is used to accommodate the trading and linking of information among participating merchants. Consumers may communicate with the various system components through a consumer web portal. A website is also available to merchants so they may view statistical information regarding rewards program participation. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094691 | Stadium Portable Billboard Advertising - The present invention is directed at an advertising method whereby a portable billboard is carried by a vendor in a stadium who is selling products to the stadium audience. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094692 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A PROMOTIONAL COUPONING SYSTEM - A promotional couponing system for the creation and management of promotional coupons, coupon templates, promotions, promotional campaigns, and triggers using a host system and a graphical front-end for use in a gaming, vending, or other business environment. A promotional couponing system runs on its own network though can connect to other host systems, and directly or indirectly to games such as slot machines and game tables and a printer of a game using a third port or interface. The promotional couponing system monitors play and other metrics to use triggers based on game and other data. The printer connection to a game only receives information which can be sent to the promotional couponing system. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094693 | OFFER OR REWARD SYSTEM USING CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR MODELING - The invention relates to a method of consumer modelling for sales' promotions, comprising the steps of providing a plurality of points of sale, providing a plurality of computer devices respectively adapted to analyse consumer behaviour and deliver data based thereon to a point of sale, and providing a device associated with an individual point of sale of the plurality thereof for providing at least promotional material to a consumer making a sales' transaction at any individual point of sale. Thus, in the drawings, there is shown a point of sale location ( | 2010-04-15 |
20100094694 | Rewards Program For Real Estate Sales and Other Uses - A consumer-to-consumer rewards program that consumers can utilize to incentivize consumer sale or lease of goods to other consumers, such as real estate. Also disclosed herein is a universal rewards card in which a consumer can earn and spend points at any preferred retailer. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094695 | AFFILIATE CONSUMER REFERRAL MARKETING - This invention relates to an affiliate website that provides incentives to users to follow links from that website to merchant websites to perform referral fee paying activities, and to recruit their own network of users that will also be incentivized to follow links from that website to merchant websites to perform referral fee paying activities. All users can recruit others to join the affiliate website. A portion of the referral fees paid by the merchant website to the affiliate website are paid by the affiliate website to the user that performed the fee paying activity and to others in the network to which that user is a member. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094696 | PERSONAL STYLE SERVER - Techniques for providing advice on personal style include receiving advice field data and a demonstration message. The advice field data indicates multiple fields to be filled by an advisor to provide information on how to improve personal style of an advisee based on an image provided by the advisee. The demonstration message includes first image data that indicates example personal style of a first user. An advice prompt message is sent to a different second user. The advice prompt message includes second image data based on the first image data, and the advice field data. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BANKING - An online banking system and method for a financial institution is provided where a savings account and a spending account is provided for a customer of the financial institution. The customer of the financial institution can receive a discount on one or more goods from an entity other than the financial institution based on one or more criteria provided by the financial institution, such as the value of the savings account. The goods from the entity can be purchased from funds in the spending account, and the amount of the discount can be credited to the savings account. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094698 | METHOD OF CONDUCTING A TRANSACTION THAT RESULTS IN CUSTOMER REWARDS - A general purpose transaction card is provided that offers an attractive incentive to customers to encourage the use of a general purpose transaction card. The general purpose transaction card is offered in connection with a co-branded loyalty program whereby a percentage of a total purchase made at one vendor is deposited into an account maintained at another vendor. More specifically, in a preferred embodiment a grocery vendor deposits a percentage of a customer's total grocery purchase into a savings account held by that customer at a bank service provider. By offering a transaction method in accordance with the teachings of the present invention both of the vendors gain in the number of joint customers while deepening the relationship those customers have with both vendors. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094699 | CONSOLIDATED CONSUMER REWARDS SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH CARD VENDOR INTEGRATION - A consumer tracking and rewards system and related methods that provide for consolidating two or more merchant-branded rewards accounts into a single source. A single unique identifier referred to as a consumer number used to track and credit purchases with respect to multiple retail establishments. The consumer number may exist simply as a data element in the system or may be printed, bar coded, or programmed onto any physical medium or device. Components of the system include a consumer rewards platform, a merchant-consumer rewards system and potentially a card vendor system. The consumer rewards platform facilitates communication and the transfer of data between the various components of the system. A cross-reference between single consumer numbers and one or more merchant rewards program numbers is used to accommodate the trading and linking of information among participating merchants. Consumers may communicate with the various system components through a consumer web portal. A website is also available to merchants so they may view statistical information regarding rewards program participation. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094700 | SYSTEM TO DETECT, ADMINISTER AND/OR EVALUATE CONFIGURATION DATA DESCRIBING THE HARDWARE AND/OR SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION OF DIFFERENT DEVICES - A system for detection, administration and/or evaluation of configuration data describing the hardware or software configuration of different (in particular medical technology) devices has a central database (in particular manufacturer-spanning central database) the configuration data stored therein, which is connected to a network (in particular the Internet via at least one software unit (fashioned as a programming interface and/or Internet platform), which enables a role-specific access to the database via role-based interfaces. An operator role and/or an end user role (in particular a referrer and/or patient role) and/or a manufacturer role are provided as roles. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094701 | Virtual redeemable offers - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with tracking in store consumer behavior are described. One example method includes receiving a product tag data (PTD) and a personal data (PD) from a portable digital device (PDD). The PTD is associated with a scan of a product tag of a product. The example method may also include storing the PTD and the PD in a database. The example method may also include creating a virtual redeemable offer (VRO) based, at least in part, on an analysis of the PD, the PTD associated with the scan, and a product information (PI) associated with the product tag. The PI may be stored in the database and describes the product. The example method may also include providing the CRVC to the PDD. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094702 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATION - A method of quantitatively assessing the effectiveness of an audiovisual, visual or audio advertisement including the steps of: presenting the advertisement to a plurality of subjects, the advertisement having a sequence of audiovisual, visual and/or audio features which occur as a function of time; obtaining, during presentation of the advertisement, EEG signals from the subjects from predetermined scalp sites thereof; calculating SSVEP amplitudes and/or phase differences from EEG signals obtained from the predetermined scalp sites in order to obtain output signals which represent predetermined psychological states of each subject to the features as a function of time; combining the output signals from the subjects to obtain pooled output signals; and displaying the pooled output signals to thereby enable quantitative assessment of the subjects' responses to the features of the advertisement in order to assess the effectiveness of the features of the advertisement. | 2010-04-15 |
20100094703 | Method of Enabling a User to Interact with Content Received from a Remote Server - A user interacts with content received from a remote server; content (e.g. feeds from social networking sites, advertisements) is received over a wireless network at a mobile telephone, which then automatically displays a specific item of the content on the mobile telephone, without the user explicitly requesting the display of that specific item of content. In response to the user selecting or highlighting the displayed specific item of content, the mobile telephone lists multiple options that, if individually selected, each initiate an associated action that corresponds to a particular way of responding to or interacting with the specific item of content. | 2010-04-15 |