19th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100121591 | METHOD AND APPARATUS THAT DETECTS STATE OF CHARGE (SOC) OF A BATTERY - A method and apparatus for estimating a state of charge of a battery. The method may include generating one or more curves which expresses the a priori relationship between a first parameter and a state of charge (SOC) of a battery over a region of interest, taking a derivative of the generated one or more curves with respect to state of charge to generate a derived parameter with the SOC of the battery over the region of interest, transforming a combination of the generated one or more curves into one or more supplemental curves which express the a priori relationship between a second parameter with one or more of current (I) polarization current (Ip) and open circuit voltage (OCV), the voltage slope with respect to SOC (dOCV/dSOC), and any combination of (I, Ip, OCV and dOCV/dSOC), measuring a voltage and a current of the battery during a period of time to create a set of voltage and current data, processing the set of voltage and current data to create a set of processed data, combining one or more generated curves with the processed data to generate processed data as a function of SOC, regressing the process data function at multiple SOCs over the region of interest with respect to an equation which is representative of the battery to obtain values for parameters not associated with SOC and to generate a curve that evaluates each SOC for accuracy and chance likelihood of fit, selecting the SOC that minimizes both the error and chance occurrence, and outputting the selected SOC for display to the user on a user interface. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121592 | Method for Determining the Actual Amount of Energy Available in an Energy Storage Module - The amount of energy actually available in an energy storage module having a plurality of individual storage elements connected in series is determined. An upper and/or a lower limit voltage for the energy storage module is determined dynamically. During a charging operation of the energy storage module, in the event that a maximally permissible upper cell voltage is reached on at least one storage cell, the upper limit voltage of the energy storage module is determined by summing all cell voltages of all storage elements existing at that point-in-time. During a discharging operation, if a minimally permissible lower cell voltage is reached on at least one storage element, the lower limit voltage is determined by summing all cell voltages existing at that point-in-time. The actually available amount of energy is computed as a function of the determined limit voltage or voltages and of the determined actual storage capacity. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121593 | IN-SITU CHARACTERIZATION OF A SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCE - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system for in-situ characterization of a solid-state light. First, a voltage and a current of the solid-state light source are monitored. Then, the health of the solid-state light source is characterized based on an analysis of the monitored voltage and current. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121594 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATION OF SOURCE IMPEDENCE ON ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION LINES - A device and method for dynamically determining an impedance of a network is disclosed. The device includes at least a processing system for measuring a network voltage and network current when said network is determined to be in a first state, measuring a network voltage when said network is determined to be in a second state, estimating said impedance value dependent upon said measured voltages and current, adapting said estimated impedance based on at least one prior impedance value and storing at least said adapted impedance. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121595 | Virtual Probing - A method and apparatus for generating one or more transfer functions for converting waveforms. The method comprises the steps of determining a system description, representative of a circuit, comprising a plurality of system components, each system component comprising at least one component characteristic, the system description further comprising at least one measurement node and at least one output node, each of the at least one measurement nodes representative of a waveform digitizing location in the circuit. One or more transfer functions are determined for converting a waveform from one or more of the at least one measurement nodes to a waveform at one or more of the at least one output nodes. The generated transfer functions are then stored in a computer readable medium. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121596 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FREQUENCY ESTIMATION FOR ACCELEROMETERS - Methods and systems for improving frequency estimation without increasing digital counter resolution. An example system mixes and filters a known carrier signal with the signal containing the frequency of interest, in order to bring the frequency domain image closer to baseband, and then performs the frequency estimation. This allows much better resolution without the need to increase the counter frequency. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121597 | Method for Determining Time Differences Between Signals Measured by at Least Two Coupled Measuring Devices and Measurement System and Corresponding Switching Device - The invention relates to a method and to a switching device ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121598 | CAPTURING SYSTEM INTERACTIONS - A computer-implemented method for capturing interactions in a system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a selection of a first component of the system and receiving a selection of a second component of the system. The method further includes receiving a selection of an interaction between the first component and the second component, and displaying a list of functions performed by the selected interaction. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121599 | AUTO-CALIBRATION OF ORIENTATION SENSING SYSTEMS - An electronic device has an orientation sensing system for determining an orientation of the device. The system comprises a magnetometer and an accelero meter. The system further has calibration means to calibrate the sensing system for operational use. The accelerometer supplies measurements used to constrain a range of possible directions of the external magnetic field to be determined. The calibration means numerically solves a set of equations and is equally well useable for a 2D or 3D magnetometer in combination with a 2D or 3D accelerometer. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121600 | Method and Device For Checking A Pressure Sensor Of A Fuel Injector System - A method for checking a pressure sensor of a fuel injection system, especially of a motor vehicle, the fuel injector system having a pressure reservoir to which the pressure sensor and an injector are assigned; in the method, a fuel quantity being injected under a pressure by the injector, wherein a pressure difference, which is created by a sudden pressure drop caused by the injection process, is ascertained as a function of the pressure and the fuel quantity. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121601 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATION OF INERTIAL SENSOR ERRORS IN REMOTE INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT - A method and system for estimation of inertial sensor errors is provided. The method includes receiving first inertial output data from a master inertial measurement unit (IMU) mounted on a host platform, with the first inertial output data comprising a change in velocity (delta V) and a change in angle (delta theta), and receiving second inertial output data from a remote IMU mounted on the host platform at a predetermined fixed distance from the master IMU, with the second inertial output data comprising a delta V and a delta theta. The first inertial output data is compared with the second inertial output data to determine a difference between the delta V of the first inertial output data and the delta V of the second inertial output data, and to determine a difference between the delta theta of the first inertial output data and the delta theta of the second inertial output data. The determined differences are applied to estimate inertial sensor errors in the remote IMU. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121602 | SENSOR NETWORK CALIBRATION - The invention concerns a method for determining a calibration value indicating the extent of loss of calibration of a group of three or more sensors in a sensor network, the method involving receiving a plurality of data values captured over a period of time by each of the sensors, determining by a processing unit ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121603 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FALL-ONSET DETECTION - A method and system for fall-onset detection is provided. The method includes the steps of monitoring acceleration at the thigh of a person; monitoring acceleration at the waist of the person; monitoring orientation of the thigh of the person; and detecting the fall-onset if the orientation of the thigh exceeds a first threshold value and a correlation between variation in acceleration of the thigh and variation in acceleration of the waist exceeds a second threshold value and a correlation between variation in the orientation of the thigh and a fall-template variation exceeds a third threshold value. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121604 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING THE ABSOLUTE ROTATION OF A ROTATING IMAGING SYSTEM - A rotating imaging system has a rotating portion, an idler, at least one sensor, a tilt sensor and a processor. The rotating portion has a diameter and rotates about a central axis. The idler rotates about an axis parallel to the central axis, and has a second diameter that is smaller than the diameter of the rotating portion. The rotating portion and the idler engage with each other such that both rotate simultaneously. The at least one sensor detects flags on the idler as the idler rotates. The tilt sensor is mounted to the rotating portion and determines a rotation angle of the rotating portion within a range of one revolution, and the processor determines an absolute rotation of the rotating portion based on at least a signal from the at least one sensor and the rotation angle determined by the tilt sensor. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121605 | Storage medium having step count calculation program stored therein, step count calculation apparatus, and step count calculation system - By repeatedly obtaining acceleration data, a gravity direction acceleration acting in a gravity direction of a housing and a horizontal direction acceleration acting in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the gravity direction are calculated. By using a first coefficient, a first step count in accordance with a change in the gravity direction acceleration is calculated and by using a second coefficient which is different from the first coefficient, a second step count in accordance with a change in the horizontal direction acceleration is calculated. Based on a predetermined condition, one of the first step count and the second step count is selected as a user's step count. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121606 | Measuring of geometrical parameters for a wind turbine blade - This invention relates to methods for measuring geometrical parameters of a wind turbine blade, the method comprising placing a surveying instrument with a view to the root of the blade and measuring the blade. Methods are described for measuring parameters such as the blade length, the blade bending, the twist and the alpha-angle of the blade. This is accomplished by the use of a surveying instrument by which is measured a number of points or markings on the root of the blade, the blade tip and/or some reference markings on the blade. The invention further relates to the use of a surveying instrument for measuring and/or marking geometrical parameters on a wind turbine blade and for measuring deformations of a wind turbine blade. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121607 | OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETER, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD - An optical measurement apparatus includes: a storage processing part storing into a storage part a plurality of main reference positions where measurement is to be performed and at least one movement value relative to each main reference position; a main measuring part moving a measurement position to one of the main reference positions stored in the storage part, then irradiating light, and then measuring a change in a state of reflected light; an auxiliary measuring part moving the measurement position to an auxiliary reference position based on the movement value relative to one of the main reference positions stored in the storage part, then irradiating light, and then measuring a change in a state of reflected light; a main calculating part performing analysis and calculating a film thickness or an optical constant; and an auxiliary calculating part performing analysis and calculating a film thickness or an optical constant. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING A DETECTION THRESHOLD GIVEN A DESIRED FALSE PROBABILITY - A method and apparatus are described for determining a threshold, including selecting a desired false result probability, and selecting a threshold value from a threshold table corresponding to the desired false result probability. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining a threshold corresponding to a desired false result probability, including calculating a false result probability, calculating a difference value between the calculated false result probability and the desired false result probability, comparing the difference value to a first predetermined value and comparing the difference value to a second predetermined value if a result of the first comparing act is positive. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121609 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF APPARATUS - Proposed is a method, implemented in software, for estimating fault state of an apparatus outfitted with sensors. At each execution period the method processes sensor data from the apparatus to obtain a set of parity parameters, which are further used for estimating fault state. The estimation method formulates a convex optimization problem for each fault hypothesis and employs a convex solver to compute fault parameter estimates and fault likelihoods for each fault hypothesis. The highest likelihoods and corresponding parameter estimates are transmitted to a display device or an automated decision and control system. The obtained accurate estimate of fault state can be used to improve safety, performance, or maintenance processes for the apparatus. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121610 | DIGITAL FILTERING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A digital filtering system, method, and program thereof are described. In the system, firstly a sensor obtains an analog physiological signal, a quantizing module transforms the physiological signal to a digitalized frequency domain signal, and then a specification parameter module obtains a feature model satisfying the frequency domain signal by matching, for a deciding process module to determine which decision parameter should be used. A filter-Clustering management module starts a relevant filter module according to the matching decision parameter to filter the frequency domain signal. On the contrary, when the frequency domain signal is an abnormal signal, the quantizing module outputs the abnormal signal to a back-end server system. The server system builds more than one updating parameter to update all the decision parameters and feature parameters. Therefore, the decision parameters and the feature parameters are updated on real time, and the physiological signal filtering result is quickly obtained. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121611 | Method for Identifying the Analytical Transitional Cross-sections of a Rigid Transport Element - According to a preferred embodiment, a method for identifying the analytical transitional cross-sections of a rigid transport element is disclosed. The method includes providing a 3D model of a rigid transport element, a list of total edges from the 3D model, a list of total faces from the 3D model, and a list of connecting edges from the 3D model, identifying all edges from said list of total edges which have connectivity with any edge in the list of connecting edges and are part of a cross-section, placing the identified edges into a list of cross-section edges, and identifying the analytical cross-section that lies on the plane defined by the edges in said list of cross-section edges. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121612 | Method for characterizing lenses - Methods are disclosed for characterizing an entire lens surface including anterior and posterior ‘hemispheres’ as well as the equatorial region as a single continuous mathematical representation by employing a summed serial function constituting incrementally higher orders of a base function and by utilizing a sufficiently high order of base function in the summation series to obtain the desired degree of accuracy of the representation. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121613 | Passive and Active Wireless Building Management System and Method - A building system includes a communication network, a plurality of wireless nodes, a plurality of passive wireless devices, and a processing circuit. The plurality of wireless nodes are disposed within a building operably and are coupled to the communication network. Each of the passive wireless devices is affixed to or within an object within the building. At least some of the objects constitute fixtures within the building. Each passive wireless device contains first information regarding at least one property of the object, and is configured to communicate wirelessly to at least one of the wireless nodes using power derived from communication signals detected in the passive wireless device. The processing circuit operably is coupled to receive the first information from the wireless devices, the processing circuit configured to update a model of at least a portion of a building based at least in part on the at least one property of the objects. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121614 | Methods and Apparatuses for Preprocessing a CAD Drawing - Methods and systems for preprocessing a drawing to enhance its usability for subsequent viewing or modification by simplifying information displayed in the drawing, reducing the size of the drawing file, and removing unnecessary data. The invention also includes a wizard function that can record many of the functions or steps taken by a user to modify a drawing and then be used to preprocess a similar type of drawing using the recorded functions and steps. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121615 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING CUMULATIVE DENSITIES OF DATA REPRESENTED BY GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS - Probability densities are calculated. According to an example embodiment, a Gaussian probability density is computed for a set of data representing a multivariate Gaussian distribution (Gaussian) by matching moments of truncated distributions. A distribution is projected onto dimensions of the set of data to generate cavity-local Gaussians. For the set of data, site-local univariate Gaussians are selected so that the moments match cavity-local univariate Gaussians (the moments of the product of the cavity-local Gaussians and the selected site-local univariate Gaussians, match the moments of the product of the cavity-local Gaussians and the cavity-local truncations). The selected site-local univariate Gaussians are aggregated globally to form a new global Gaussian. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121616 | SPRAY NOZZLE CONFIGURATION AND MODELING SYSTEM - A spray injection analysis and nozzle configuration system is described having a user input unit that collects spray system input parameters and relays the collected parameters to a fluid performance matching unit and/or problem geometry unit for subsequent processing. The user inputs basic system parameters, including the desired spray fluid characteristics, to obtain suggested system configuration, including spray nozzle types and quantities. Accuracy of suggested spray nozzle type and configuration is increased via approximating the viscosity and/or surface tension parameters of the desired spray fluid with that of collected performance data. When a user already knows the desired spray nozzle type and associated system parameters, the user input unit routes this information to the problem geometry unit for creation of a problem geometry file, including calculation of the drop size distribution and spray velocity, and performance modeling via the fluid modeling unit. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121617 | Concept for Realistic Simulation of a Frequency Spectrum - An apparatus for simulating a signal composed of a plurality of individual signals from respective signal locations at a simulation location, having a provider for providing the plurality of individual signals in the time domain, a transformer for transforming the individual signals to the frequency domain, a processor for processing the individual signals transformed to the frequency domain each depending on a signal channel existing between the simulation location and the respective signal location, a combiner for combining the processed individual signals transformed to the frequency domain to a combined signal, and a transformer for transforming the combined signal to the time domain for generating the simulated combined signal at the simulation location. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121618 | SUBJECT MODELLING - A method of modelling the biological response of a biological subject. The method includes, in a processing system, for a model including one or more equations and associated parameters, comparing at least one measured subject attribute and at least one corresponding model value. The model is then modified in accordance with results of the comparison to thereby more effectively model the biological response. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121619 | System and Method of Computing and Rendering the Nature of Dipole Moments, Condensed Matter, and Reaction Kinetics - A method and system of physically solving the charge, mass, and current density functions of organic molecules using Maxwell's equations and computing and rendering the physical nature of the chemical bond using the solutions. The solutions can be used to solve the dipole moments in molecules or induced dipole moments between species that in turn can be used to solve condensed matter parameters and reaction kinetics. The results can be displayed on visual or graphical media. The display can be static or dynamic such that electron motion and specie's vibrational, rotational, and translational motion can be displayed in an embodiment. The displayed information is useful to anticipate reactivity and physical properties. The insight into the nature of the chemical bond of at least one species can permit the solution and display of those of other species to provide utility to anticipate their reactivity and physical properties. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121620 | SPRAY NOZZLE CONFIGURATION AND MODELING SYSTEM - A spray injection analysis and nozzle configuration system is described having a user input unit that collects spray system input parameters and relays the collected parameters to a fluid performance matching unit and/or problem geometry unit for subsequent processing. The user inputs basic system parameters, including the desired spray fluid characteristics, to obtain suggested system configuration, including spray nozzle types and quantities. Accuracy of suggested spray nozzle type and configuration is increased via approximating the viscosity and/or surface tension parameters of the desired spray fluid with that of collected performance data. When a user already knows the desired spray nozzle type and associated system parameters, the user input unit routes this information to the problem geometry unit for creation of a problem geometry file, including calculation of the drop size distribution and spray velocity, and performance modeling via the fluid modeling unit. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121621 | FRACTURE PREDICTION METHOD, PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM PRODUCT AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When discretizing an analysis target part into plural elements and performing analysis, sheet thickness reduction rate or maximum principal strain at an equivalent position including a same element is compared by either a manner of combining two adjacent elements after the analysis or a manner of changing an element discretization size with two types and performing the analysis, and the element where the difference is large is extracted as a fracture risk portion. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121622 | Systems and Methods for Computing and Validating a Variogram Model - Systems and methods for computing a variogram model, which utilize a variogram map and a rose diagram to compute the variogram model. The variogram model may be validated in real-time to provide immediate feedback without the need to interpolate or simulate the real data. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121623 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONSTRUCTING AND USING A SUBTERRANEAN GEOMECHANICS MODEL SPANNING LOCAL TO ZONAL SCALE IN COMPLEX GEOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS - In an exemplary embodiment, a method and system is disclosed for developing a subterranean geomechanics model of a complex geological environment. The method can include estimating a pore pressure field, a stress field, a geomechanics property field, and a geological structure field from a geological concept model; geostatistically interpolating vectors and tensors from the estimated fields; and combining the results from the estimated fields and the geostatistically interpolated vectors and tensors to derive a geostatistical geomechanical model of the geological environment. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121624 | ENHANCED MATCHING THROUGH EXPLORE/EXPLOIT SCHEMES - Content items are selected to be displayed on a portal page in such a way as to maximize a performance metric such as click-through rate. Problems relating to content selection are addressed, such as changing content pool, variable performance metric, and delay in receiving feedback on an item once the item has been displayed to a user. An adaptation of priority-based schemes for the multi-armed bandit problem are used to project future trends of data. The adaptation introduces experiments concerning a future time period into the calculation, which increases the set of data on which to solve the multi-armed bandit problem. Also, a Bayesian explore/exploit method is formulated as an optimization problem that addresses all of the issues of content item selection for a portal page. This optimization problem is modified by Lagrange relaxation and normal approximation, which allow computation of the optimization problem in real time. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121625 | Method of designing a composite laminate - A method of designing a composite laminate, the laminate comprising a plurality of zones, each zone comprising a plurality of plies of composite material, each ply in each zone having a respective ply orientation angle. A global stacking sequence is determined for the laminate, the global stacking sequence comprising a sequence of stacking sequence elements. A local laminate thickness is determined for each zone. A local stacking sequence is then determined for each zone by extracting a subsequence of stacking sequence elements from the global stacking sequence. The global stacking sequence and the local laminate thicknesses are determined together in an optimisation process in which multiple sub-ply selection variables are assigned to each stacking sequence element, each sub-ply selection variable representing the density or sub-ply thickness for a respective candidate ply orientation angle. Optimal values are determined for the sub-ply selection variables and the local laminate thicknesses. A single one of the sub-ply selection variables is assigned to each stacking sequence element thereby forcing a discrete choice of global ply orientation angle for each stacking sequence element. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121626 | Computer-Implemented Method of Computing, In A Computer Aided Design System, Of A Boundary Of A Modeled Object - The invention relates to a computer-implemented method of computing, in a computer aided design system, of a boundary of a modeled object, the method comprising:
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20100121627 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING PATTERNED STRUCTURES - A method of preparation of reference data for measuring the profile of a patterned structure for use in control of a manufacturing process, the method including: providing a model for generating profiles based on the manufacturing process; generating the profiles by simulation of the manufacturing process; and preparing diffraction signal reference data corresponding to the generated profiles. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121628 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT VERIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD - An integrated circuit verification device includes a trace-back unit having structure data of an integrated circuit to be verified, and configured to trace back nodes of the integrated circuit in a direction from an output node to an input node; and a state defining unit having data with respect to a target state of the output node of the integrated circuit, and configured to sequentially define states of back-traced nodes to satisfy the target state of the output node. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121629 | Method and apparatus for translating speech during a call - A translation platform allows a client using a first language to communicate via translated voice and/or text to at least a second client using a second language. A control server uses various speech recognition engines, text translation engines and text to speech engines to accomplish real-time or near-real time translations. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121630 | LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments of the present disclosure include an electronic translation system employing a language-independent central representation of language to be translated. The system may include a language parser to translate to the language-independent representation, and a renderer to translate from the representation to a desired language supported by the system. In an embodiment, users of the translation system can add or modify their own languages. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121631 | DATA DETECTION - A method for detecting data in a sequence of characters or text using both a statistical engine and a pattern engine. The statistical engine is trained to recognize certain types of data and the pattern engine is programmed to recognize the grammatical pattern of certain types of data. The statistical engine may scan the sequence of characters to output first data, and the pattern engine may break down the first data into subsets of data. Alternatively, the statistical engine may output items that have a predetermined probability or greater of being a certain type of data and the pattern engine may then detect the data from the output items and/or remove incorrect information from the output items. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121632 | STEREO AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE, STEREO AUDIO DECODING DEVICE, AND THEIR METHOD - Provided is a stereo audio encoding device which can improve the ICP (Inter-channel Prediction) performance of a stereo audio signal while suppressing the bit rate. The device ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121633 | STEREO AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE AND STEREO AUDIO ENCODING METHOD - Provided is a stereo audio encoding device which can improve ICP accuracy of a stereo audio signal having a low inter-channel correlation while suppressing a bit rate. The device ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121634 | Speech Enhancement in Entertainment Audio - The invention relates to audio signal processing. More specifically, the invention relates to enhancing entertainment audio, such as television audio, to improve the clarity and intelligibility of speech, such as dialog and narrative audio. The invention relates to methods, apparatus for performing such methods, and to software stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer to perform such methods. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121635 | Enhancing the Intelligibility of Received Speech in a Noisy Environment - A long term signal level of an audio signal is computed at a local device, wherein the audio signal was transmitted from a remote device and received by the local device. An automatic gain control (AGC) gain is computed at the local device based on the long term signal level. A noise factor indicative of a level of ambient noise at the local device is computed at the local device. A dynamic range compression (DRC) gain is computed at the local device based on the noise factor. An amplitude of the audio signal is adjusted at the local device based on the AGC gain and the DRC gain. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121636 | Multisensory Speech Detection - A computer-implemented method of multisensory speech detection is disclosed. The method comprises determining an orientation of a mobile device and determining an operating mode of the mobile device based on the orientation of the mobile device. The method further includes identifying speech detection parameters that specify when speech detection begins or ends based on the determined operating mode and detecting speech from a user of the mobile device based on the speech detection parameters. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121637 | Semi-Automatic Speech Transcription - A semi-automatic speech transcription system of the invention leverages the complementary capabilities of human and machine, building a system which combines automatic and manual approaches. With the invention, collected audio data is automatically distilled into speech segments, using signal processing and pattern recognition algorithms. The detected speech segments are presented to a human transcriber using a transcription tool with a streamlined transcription interface, requiring the transcriber to simply “listen and type”. This eliminates the need to manually navigate the audio, coupling the human effort to the amount of speech, rather than the amount of audio. Errors produced by the automatic system can be quickly identified by the human transcriber, which are used to improve the automatic system performance. The automatic system is tuned to maximize the human transcriber efficiency. The result is a system which takes considerably less time than purely manual transcription approaches to produce a complete transcription. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121638 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH TO TEXT CONVERSION - Speech recognition is performed in near-real-time and improved by exploiting events and event sequences, employing machine learning techniques including boosted classifiers, ensembles, detectors and cascades and using perceptual clusters. Speech recognition is also improved using tandem processing. An automatic punctuator injects punctuation into recognized text streams. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121639 | Speech Processing - The described implementations relate to speech spelling by a user. One method identifies one or more symbols that may match a user utterance and displays an individual symbol for confirmation by the user. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121640 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING A COMMON-LANGUAGE SPEECH RECOGNITION, BY A COMPUTER, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A PLURALITY OF DIALECTS - The present invention relates to a method for modeling a common-language speech recognition, by a computer, under the influence of multiple dialects and concerns a technical field of speech recognition by a computer. In this method, a triphone standard common-language model is first generated based on training data of standard common language, and first and second monophone dialectal-accented common-language models are based on development data of dialectal-accented common languages of first kind and second kind, respectively. Then a temporary merged model is obtained in a manner that the first dialectal-accented common-language model is merged into the standard common-language model according to a first confusion matrix obtained by recognizing the development data of first dialectal-accented common language using the standard common-language model. Finally, a recognition model is obtained in a manner that the second dialectal-accented common-language model is merged into the temporary merged model according to a second confusion matrix generated by recognizing the development data of second dialectal-accented common language by the temporary merged model. This method effectively enhances the operating efficiency and admittedly raises the recognition rate for the dialectal-accented common language. The recognition rate for the standard common language is also raised. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121641 | EXTERNAL VOICE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND IDENTIFICATION PROCESS THEREOF - An external voice identification system and an identification process thereof is disclosed. The external voice identification system of a multimedia electronic device is activated by identifying and analyzing inputting a voice message, and the multimedia electronic device can be an iPod player having a storage module stored with a plurality of voice files and has a transmission interface to electrically connect to a voice identification system. The voice identification system is electrically connected to the transmission interface and has a built-in identification module, and a identification unit can identify and analyze the voice signals. An adapting interface is connected to a voice input unit to receive the external voice signal, and thus identify and analyze the external voice signals by the identification module to further activate the multimedia electronic device for playing the voice signal (songs), and select, to adjust and switch the playing content by the inputted external voice signal. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121642 | Speech Data Retrieval Apparatus, Speech Data Retrieval Method, Speech Data Retrieval Program and Computer Usable Medium Having Computer Readable Data Retrieval Program Embodied Therein - A speech data retrieval apparatus ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121643 | MELODIS CRYSTAL DECODER METHOD AND DEVICE - The technology disclosed relates to a system and method for fast, accurate and parallelizable speech search, called Crystal Decoder. It is particularly useful for search applications, as opposed to dictation. It can achieve both speed and accuracy, without sacrificing one for the other. It can search different variations of records in the reference database without a significant increase in elapsed processing time. Even the main decoding part can be parallelized as the number of words increase to maintain a fast response time. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121644 | ADAPTIVE TUNING OF BIOMETRIC ENGINES - A method for adaptively tuning a biometric engine comprises the step of generating a database having a plurality of enrollments. Each enrollment corresponds to one or more of a plurality of operation characteristics. The method further comprises the step of comparing, with the biometric engine, enrollments from the database to generate test results including, for each of a plurality of sets of operation characteristics, error rates for a plurality of sensitivity settings and/or confidence score threshold values. The method further comprises the step of analyzing the test results to determine optimized sensitivity settings and/or confidence score threshold values for each set of operation characteristics. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121645 | OPERATING DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - In a method for the operator control of a motor vehicle having a display for displaying variable information and having a microphone, the viewing direction of an operator of the motor vehicle is ascertained, it is checked whether the viewing direction of the operator is aimed toward the display, and information assigned to an acoustic command is shown on the display when a corresponding acoustic command is given while the viewing direction of the operator is aimed toward the display. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121646 | CODING/DECODING OF DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNALS - The invention relates to the coding/decoding of a signal into several sub-bands, in which at least a first and a second sub-bands which are adjacent are transform coded ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121647 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING AND DECODING MULTI OBJECT AUDIO SIGNAL WITH MULTI CHANNEL - Provided are an apparatus and method for coding and decoding a multi object audio signal with multi channel. The apparatus includes: a multi channel encoding means for down-mixing an audio signal including a plurality of channels, generating a spatial cue for the audio signal including the plurality of channels, and generating first rendering information including the generated spatial cue; and a multi object encoding unit for down-mixing an audio signal including a plurality of objects, which includes the down-mixed signal from the multi channel encoding unit, generating a spatial cue for the audio signal including the plurality of objects, and generating second rendering information including the generated spatial cue, wherein the multichannel encoding unit generates a spatial cue for the audio signal including the plurality of objects regardless of a Coder-DECoder (CODEC) scheme the limits the multi channel encoding unit. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121648 | AUDIO FREQUENCY ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE - An audio encoding method and a corresponding decoding method are provided according to the present invention. Accordingly, the pre-echo effect of the audio transient signal is eliminated and the distortion of the transient signal is mitigated. The technical solution includes performing time-domain processing on an input audio transient signal; dividing sampling points x | 2010-05-13 |
20100121649 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USER REGISTRATION - A method and a system to register a user include using some user information stored and provided by a third party system. For example, the user may provide an identifier associated with the third party system. The identifier may be used to retrieve the user information. The user information may be used to at least partially complete the user registration. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121650 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT DEVELOPMENT - Media content is developed using a competition model and supporting computerized systems. Multiple competition phases may be held to generate content throughout the creative process from idea to completed project. Prizes are awarded to the competitors that create winning submissions and the reuse of submissions. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121651 | Systems and Methods for Evaluating Information to Identify, and Act Upon, Intellectual Property Issues - The systems and methods of the present invention enable users to identify whether a composition of matter, technical design, product, service, component, technology, feature, business model or any other item may have intellectual property issues associated therewith. The present invention includes a set of screens, filters, comparison sheets, and/or questionnaires (referred to generically as screens) which are derived from patent claims and used to evaluate whether a composition of matter, technical design, product, service, component, technology, feature, business model or any other item may have intellectual property issues associated therewith. The present invention further comprises systems and methods designed to help groups of people, in a collaborative environment, manage the use of screens. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121652 | Method and Apparatus of Assessing Need for Health Care and Facilitating The Provision of Health Care - A health care assessment system and associated methods are provided for providing increased access to individuals for assessing whether a need exists for health care and then also facilitating an individual's access to health care as needed. Embodiments of the system include a health care assessement system for receiving input from a patient and generating an output reflecting an indivdual's risk of one or more disease states. The health care assessment system is further capable of providing resources for health care and visual tools for collecting patient history. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121653 | METHOD FOR TRACKING AND SORTING MEDICAL TEST INFORMATION - In a method for tracking medical test information a content database is established and is cooperable with software, the content database being populable with identifying information relevant to particular patients and care providers. Information relevant to tests performed or to be performed on one or more of the patients is received and associated with the patient. The information stored in the database and retrievable therefrom, includes; the type of test, who ordered a particular test, when it is ordered, when was the scheduling done for the test, who scheduled it, when was the test scheduled to be performed, when was it performed, what was the expected date of the test results, when did the results actually become available, when were the test results read, when were the test results conveyed to the patient, and when did the final disposition occur. The software being operable to sort at least a portion of said information upon request by a user. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121654 | Integrated Medication and Infusion Monitoring System - A System manages IV pumps so that clinicians automatically receive alerts, decisions, and actions required to maintain a patient IV medication therapy according to a prescribed treatment protocol. An infusion pump monitoring system, includes an acquisition processor for acquiring fluid infusion parameters comprising a patient identifier, infusion fluid identifier and a rate of fluid infusion, for administration of an infusion fluid to a patient at a point of care using an infusion pump. The system also includes a repository of patient medical record information. A fluid infusion monitor uses acquired fluid infusion parameters for automatically searching a patient medical record in the repository for information concerning rate of fluid infusion of a particular infusion fluid and determining if a rate of a previously administered dose of the particular infusion fluid was lower than a rate indicated in the fluid infusion parameters. An interface processor automatically initiates generation of a message indicating a potential adverse reaction to the particular infusion fluid in response to a determination of a lower rate being employed for previously administering the particular infusion fluid. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121655 | PATIENT DATA RECORD AND USER INTERFACE - A patient data record is described comprising a mean model representative of the patient and further comprises at least one shape model to represent data concerning the patient, in which the said mean model comprises at least one region and the said shape model comprises at least one sub-section, and in which the at least one sub-section of the shape model is linked to the equivalent region of the mean model. This has the advantage of allowing greater structure to the patient record. Further a system is described to present patient data upon queries generated by a user and arranged to access the claimed patient data record, and which is further arranged to provide access to information in the sub-section of the shape model when a query generated by the user accesses the equivalent region of the mean model. This system allows full use of the improved patient data record. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121656 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND TRANSFER - A method for providing medical insurance information corresponding to a consumer of medical services can include receiving consumer medical insurance information from a consumer. This information includes one or more identity fields. A request is sent to network sources of identity information for the consumer, the requests including one or more of the identity fields. The identity information that is received is compared to the consumer medical insurance information using matching rules to store data which satisfies the rules. The identity data which satisfies the matching rules is used to generate requests for insurer medical insurance information. The insurer information is compared to the consumer medical insurance information using matching rules to store only data which satisfies the matching rules. A processor can be used to generate different permutations and combinations of the data for the identity requests and for the insurer requests until a satisfactory response has been received. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121657 | Use Of Restricted Links To Send Medical Records Data To Recipients - Methods of aggregating and distributing medical records are presented. Patient data is aggregated from one or more medical providers where the patient data is incomplete with respect to a medical data exchange record (MDER). A data repository, preferrably a third party relative to the providers or a recipient of the data, stores the patient data. When a recipient requests the patient data and is properly authenticated, the patient data is presented to the recipient in standard MDER format. Preferrably, the recipient accesses the data via a limit session link. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121658 | DENTAL CHARTING SYSTEM - A computer-implemented dental charting system includes a computer storing tooth data for at least one patient and a display operable to display the tooth data. The computer is responsive to voice commands, and the display has a periodontal mode and a restorative mode. The display includes an exam overview window illustrating a plurality of tooth images, each tooth image corresponding to a patient tooth location, and an exam focus window. The exam focus window illustrates a magnified view of at least one of the plurality of tooth images, and illustrates data corresponding to the selected tooth location. The exam focus window may be displayed beside the exam overview window, as a floating window on top of the exam overview window, or on a physically separate display from the exam overview window. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121659 | Independent Annuity Placement System and Method - A system and method for facilitating annuity transactions between annuity purchasers and providers via an annuities placement program accessible to the purchasers and providers. Purchasers enter quote solicitation information used by the annuity providers to establish a quote for an annuity Annuity providers enter a quote in response to the quote solicitation information, and the quote is provided to the purchaser via the annuities placement program. The quote is customized to the annuity purchaser's quote solicitation information. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121660 | Architecture and system for displaying schedule and route information - An architecture and system generating interactive web-based flight schedule displays is disclosed. In accordance with the embodiments of the invention the interactive web-based flight schedule graphically displays flight schedules using modules that include flight bars positioned along a time-line grid to graphically represent a duration time, a departure time and arrival time of a corresponding scheduled flight. The modules also may include functionalized end points on the flight bars that designate a departure location and an arrival location of the corresponding flight and one or more stop boxes where necessary to indicate a stop-over. The interactive web-based flight schedule displays include any number to function links and controls that allow a viewer to obtain detailed flight information and/or organize flights according to a selectable criteria before purchasing a flight. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121661 | CHARTERED FLIGHT SWAPPING BUSINESS MODEL - The present invention relates to a passenger swapping reservation system and method using a chartered transportation means, and more particularly, to a passenger swapping reservation system and method using a chartered transportation means, wherein a chartered transportation means can be inexpensively and conveniently reserved on-line to meet international flight and/or travel demands without using scheduled routes, such as previously opened flight routes, of traveler transportation means. A passenger swapping reservation system and method using a chartered transportation means of the present invention is a passenger swapping reservation system and method including at least one reservation server connected to a plurality of clients through an on-line network. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121662 | System and Method of Booking Transportation - A system and method for booking transportation that enables passengers to equally share the cost of the transportation by consolidating their itineraries. Passengers select or create a flight listing that defines the requested air travel, where others can view and join the flight listing. Upon the occurrence of an event, all joined passengers are notified of the cost of traveling the flight listing and given the opportunity to accept or reject the flight listing. If one or more passengers reject the flight listing, the cost per passenger is recalculated and passengers are notified again until all passengers accept or reject the flight listing. The cost for each individual passenger is the total cost of traveling the flight listing divided by the total number of joined passengers. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121663 | System and Method for Maintaining Displayed Pricing at Retail Stores - A system for maintaining displayed pricing at retail stores includes a computer, a printer, an EDSD reader or an EDSD reader/encoder, and at least one portable EDSD reader. The computer includes a database having a record of each product for which displayed pricing will be maintained. Each such record includes a unique identifier for the product and the current price for the product. The printer is in communication with the computer, and is adapted to generate printed pricing material on EDSD enabled media. The EDSD reader or EDSD reader/encoder is associated with the printer. Printed pricing material is generated by obtaining the current price from the product record in the product pricing database, printing the current price on EDSD enabled media, and associating an identifier stored in the EDSD with the product. The printed pricing material is then installed in the store. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121664 | CONDITIONAL DOWNLOAD OF DATA FROM EMBEDDED HISTORIANS - Systems and methods that provide for event driven downloading, via defining storage thresholds in an embedded historian (e.g. micro historian). Upon reaching predetermined thresholds (e.g., low/high water marks), stored data in the embedded historians can automatically down load to a central plant historian. An automatic download engine is provided that down loads historian data based on satisfaction of such conditions defined for the download. The download engine can further include a detector component, which detects whether a predetermined condition (e.g., associated with the storage capacity of the micro-historians have been met. Moreover, a notification component can notify the embedded historians that the data have been permanently persisted in the central historian. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121665 | CALENDAR AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT - A method for an electronic calendar and scheduling application to associate levels of availability (bookability) with time slots on individual calendars for minimizing the level of intrusiveness during the scheduling of a meeting includes: determining a set of feasible time slots bounded by a time range; determining a time slot with the lowest level of intrusiveness for one or more potential participants by: determining a level of intrusiveness in a time slot by: assigning a first weight based on a participant's attendance level to the meeting; assigning a second weight based on a participant's booking availability priority; performing a mathematical calculation with the first weight and second weight to obtain a calculated value; storing the calculated value; obtaining additional calculated values for additional participants; and wherein in the event there are no more additional participants: performing a mathematical combination of the stored calculated values to obtain an intrusiveness value. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121666 | MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATIC INVOCATION OF SCHEDULED COLLABORATION EVENTS - A collaboration event framework can be used to schedule and automatically invoke a collaboration event. An event coordinator may schedule a collaboration event, and the framework will automatically initiate contact with event participants using participant contact preferences. Participants can be asked to enter an identifier to verify the participant's identity. An event coordinator may be presented with a display that indicates the status of participants of the collaboration event. A system administrator may review all scheduled collaboration events to determine resource shortages. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121667 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED ADVERTISEMENT MANAGEMENT - The disclosure describes systems and methods for Integrated advertising management. An Integrated Ad Manager (IAM) loaded and stored within a media player on a user computer receives information from at least one publisher for use in managing advertisements. The information relates to available advertisement inventory of the at least one publisher of advertisements. The IAM facilitates determining advertisements to be served in connection with media content being rendered by the media player based at least in part on the received information. The IAM facilitates serving of advertisements, at least in part based on the determined advertisements, for visible display on a user computer in association with the media content being rendered. An ad management system serves or facilitates serving of the advertisements based at least in part on the information received from the IAM. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121668 | AUTOMATED COMPLIANCE CHECKING FOR PROCESS INSTANCE MIGRATION - A business process workflow editorial data processing system can be provided. The system can include a workflow management system such as a BPEL process editing tool, and a repository of templates each template defining a process. At least two of the templates can include a new template and an existing template for an executing instance of a business process. The system also can include compliance checking logic coupled to the workflow management system. The logic can include program code enabled to derive a log of changes between the new template and the existing template based upon added and removed activities and links between activities in the executing process instance, to group the changes in the log according to common activities, to determine a wavefront for the executing process instance, and to migrate the executing process instance to the new template only if the wavefront does not cross any of the groups of the changes, but otherwise rejecting a migration of the process instance to the new template. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121669 | System and method for determining how to prepare and maintain lawns and gardens - A system and method for determining how to prepare and maintain lawns and gardens. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121670 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING SHIPPING - There is provided a system and method for facilitating shipping. An exemplary method comprises automatically detecting that a user at a front-end of a computer system has booked a shipping service. The exemplary method also comprises obtaining shipping information associated with the shipping service. The exemplary method additionally comprises, based on the shipping information, automatically scheduling a pick-up service for the shipment being the object of the shipping service and sending an email message or an instant message incorporating the pick-up schedule information to the user. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121671 | Automated Channel Abstraction for Advertising Auctions - In a computer-implemented method of determining an abstraction of a plurality of differentiated goods available for exchange, data regarding each differentiated good is stored in a computer storage, wherein the data regarding each differentiated good includes an attribute value assigned to at least one attribute of the differentiated good. A processor of a computer determines a first abstraction of the plurality of differentiated goods based on the stored data. The first abstraction includes at least one abstract good. Each abstract good includes one or more differentiated goods. At least one abstract good of the first abstraction includes at least two distinct differentiated goods. The processor determines for each abstract good a specification for the abstract good based on the data regarding one or more differentiated goods forming the abstract good. The processor stores in the computer storage the specification determined for each abstract good. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121672 | System and method for identifying and managing customer needs - The system monitors the activity of customers, agents, and industry-experts in a network for new topics relevant to a business and the interests in those topics. A determination is made automatically if there is enough interest to warrant adding a skill. If there is not enough interest, the system continues to monitor for topics and interests. If there is enough interest, the system automatically projects a resource needed for a skill. The system monitors internal resources and the network to determine if the resource needed for the skill exists in an internal resource. If the resource needed for the skill exists in an internal resource, the internal resource is reallocated. If the resource needed for the skill does exist in the internal resource, the system monitors the network for an external resource that has the skill. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121673 | MESSAGE NOTIFICATION METHOD, WORK MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A work management device having a plurality of notification devices of which corresponding notification manners are different from each other and managing jobs performed by a plurality of workers notifies a message to part or all of the plurality of workers. When the work management device has changed job information stored in advance in a storage device of the work management device, the work management device calculates an importance of a change of the job information for each of the plurality of workers, selects one or more from the plurality of notification devices according to the calculated importances, and notifies each of the pertinent workers of a message relating to the change of the job information by the use of the selected notification device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121674 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SCHEDULE CONSIDERING ATTENDANTS' CONTEXT IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for generating a schedule considering attendants' context in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method includes obtaining location information of attendants, determining a travel time for each attendant to travel to a location of a schedule to be generated using the obtained location information, displaying the determined travel time on a time table in the form of a time limit. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121675 | Method and System for Rapidly Projecting and Forecasting Pharmaceutical Market Information - A system and method for providing a monthly cumulative prediction of pharmaceutical sales of a particular pharmaceutical, or group of pharmaceuticals, in a current month is disclosed. In particular, the technique of the present invention provides for extrapolating a sample of sales data for a given day across that entire day ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121676 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOGGING IMPRESSIONS OF ONLINE ADVERTISMENTS - A system and method which may log a real number of views or impressions of an element within a web page, e.g., an advertisement. Instead of sending impression data to an impression logging unit by a web page server when an element is included in a web page, the invention may collect impression data at a user terminal and send the impression data to the impression logging unit when the element actually appears within a user's view port, which is the visible area of his browser window. Consequently, only what is actually seen by users, not everything that could be seen on a web page, may be logged by the impression logging unit. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121677 | BUSINESS PARTNER COLLABORATION AND BUY ANALYSIS - The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for implementing an automated inventory replenishment process between a manufacturer and a business partner. In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided comprising the business partner purchasing and maintaining an inventory of goods from the manufacturer, and the manufacturer providing price protection to the business partner for the purchasing of the goods. This embodiment further comprises managing said inventory by using an automated process that takes into account said price protection for the purchasing of the goods. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121678 | CALCULATING PRODUCTION CAPACITY, CAPACITY UTILIZATION, DEMAND ALLOCATION, AND AVERAGE INVENTORY LEVELS - A processor is programmed to access the production rate of the one or more machines configured to make the one or more products stored in the memory area, access a demand rate for the one or more products stored in the memory area, calculate a production capacity of the one or more machines based on the production rate of the one or more products on the one or more machines, determine a capacity utilization based on the accessed demand rate for the one or more products and the calculated production capacity of the one or more machines, and present the determined capacity utilization to a user. An efficient demand allocation may also be determined for the machines. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTATIVE ALLOCATION AND PRICING OF IMPRESSION SEGMENTS OF ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT IMPRESSIONS FOR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - An improved system and method for representative allocation and pricing of impression segments of online advertisement impressions for advertising campaigns is provided. An inventory of online advertisement impressions may be grouped in impression segments according to attributes of the advertisement impressions and advertising campaigns for impressions targeting specific attributes may be received. A representative number of advertisement impressions from the impression segments may be determined for allocation to the advertising campaigns by maximizing the prices of the impression segments for each of the values of the advertising campaigns. The representative number of advertisement impressions from the impression segments may be allocated for the advertising campaigns, and the price of each of the advertising campaigns may be output for the allocated advertisement impressions. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121680 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING INSTALLATION SITES OF ALTERNATIVE FUEL STATIONS - A method and system to identify suitable installation sites for alternative fuel stations. The system uses geocoded data sets and other data pertaining to a particular geographic market to generate three models: (1) the system generates a market capacity model that indicates the total number of stations that could be sustained by the present and/or projected consumer demand for alternative fuel within the market; (2) the system generates a hotspot model that indicates the geographic variation of estimated demand for alternative fuel within the market; and (3) the system generates a trade area model that indicates which locations within the market are quickly accessible by a sufficiently high number of alternative fuel consumers. When combined, these three models permit a user of the system to identify and analyze those locations within the market that are most suitable as alternative fuel station sites. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121681 | Method and System of Contextual Advertising - A method of advertising using a user profile based on a user's interaction with websites, including the time spent on the website and the user's rating of keywords associated with the contents of the website. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORECASTING AND PAIRING ADVERTISING WITH POPULAR WEB-BASED MEDIA - A system and method for identifying whether certain web-based media or web-based videos are likely to become popular is provided. Videos that are identified as having a strong likelihood of becoming popular with a particular demographic group are paired to advertisements or other media appropriate for the particular demographic group. Videos that are likely to be popular are identified by measuring early input rates such as request rates, replay rates, comment rates, forwarding rates and reply rates. Input rate patterns including pattern segments correlated to inputs from a particular demographic group are identified. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121683 | System and Method of Scenario Versioning - A system and method is disclosed for scenario management. The system includes a database configured to store data describing a plurality of scenarios, each scenario comprising one or more fields and data describing the supply chain network comprising a plurality of network components, each network component configured to supply one or more items to satisfy demand. The system further includes a server coupled with the database; the server accesses the data describing the plurality of scenarios and accesses the data describing the supply chain network. The server further traverses the one or more fields of the plurality of scenarios until a value is determined and stores the determined value in the database for each of the one or more fields of the plurality of scenarios. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121684 | System and Method for Capturing Information for Conversion into Actionable Sales Leads - The system and method relates to business-to-business marketing organizations who participate in lead-generation activities via their company website, client customer relationship management systems, and other available business information. More particularly, it provides a target lead-generation system and method that targets the right businesses and personnel within those businesses using real-time predictive and behavioral analytics and website traffic data, reaches the right business buying person via role-based contact data and connects businesses to potential customers and suppliers to drive business revenue. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121685 | Method and System for Implementing a Ranking Mechanism - Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an automated approach for ranking employees which avoids the complexity and excessive resources often needed to implement employee rankings. Also disclosed is an improved method and system for generating performance scores for employees. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121686 | Method and System for Implementing a Scoring Mechanism - Described is an improved method, system, and computer program product for implementing an improved method and system for generating performance scores for employees. Also disclosed is an approach for ranking employees which avoids the complexity and excessive resources often needed to implement employee rankings. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121687 | PROFITABILITY PROJECTION SYSTEM - This invention relates generally to software, and more specifically, to a profitability projection system. In one embodiment, the invention includes an application server, the application server including a profitability component. In a further embodiment, the profitability component includes a margin rate component configured to perform the steps of determining a margin rate of at least one person using a bill rate for the at least one person and a cost rate for the at least one person, the cost rate for the at least one person being a function of a quantity of hours and/or the bill rate. In yet a further embodiment, the profitability component includes a profitability projection component configured to perform the steps of projecting profitability of the at least one person using project parameters received via user input, the received project parameters usable to determine the margin rate of the at least one person using the margin rate component. In one particular embodiment, the received project parameters comprise the bill rate, the at least one person, and the quantity of hours. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121688 | AGENT FEEDBACK TOOL - An agent feedback tool includes an agent feedback database and an agent feedback module. The agent feedback module may include a vendor identification program, an agent feedback settings program, an agent feedback program, an agent reporting program, an agent summary program, and an agent profile program. The agent feedback module communicates with the agent feedback database to store mapping records and details relating to agents, vendors, vendor-specific locations, and feedback for the agents. The agent feedback program is operative to autopopulate one or more fields shown in an agent feedback graphical user interface by referring to mapping records stored in the agent feedback database. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS ORDERING IN A VENUE - The present disclosure teaches a system for wireless ordering in a venue, including a wireless communication device configured to allow a user within a venue to input information, a network that is wirelessly accessible by the wireless communication device, a server coupled to the network, and configured to transmit information packets through the network to the wireless communication device, an electronic payment gateway coupled to the server, and configured to pass electronic payment information received from the server, an order-processing computer coupled to the server, and configured to receive order information, an order-displaying device coupled to the order-processing computer, and configured to receive order information from the order-processing computer and to display the order information, and a pick-up station where customers may retrieve their orders. The present disclosure also teaches a method in accordance with the system. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PERSONALIZED MOBILE ADVERTISING SERVICE - A method and system are provided for providing a personalized mobile advertising service by a mobile terminal in a mobile advertising system. The method includes receiving a message requesting an advertisement list through an advertising application, providing the requested advertisement list to a user through the advertising application, receiving a request message for a predetermined advertisement among advertisements included in the provided advertisement list through the advertising application, and delivering the requested advertisement to the advertising application. | 2010-05-13 |