21st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 71 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150142409 | PHOTOGRAPHIC SETUP MODELING - In an approach for simulating a photographic setup, a computer receives information detailing a first type of device. The computer determines the received first type of device is not included in a device database. The computer inserts the first type of device into the device database. The computer receives a selection of one or more types of devices. The one or more selected types of devices are included in the device database and include the first type of device. The computer receives a configuration for each of the one or more selected types of devices. The computer creates a simulation of a photographic setup. The simulation is based on the one or more selected types of devices and the received configurations. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142410 | HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR RELIABILITY SIMULATION METHOD - A method of circuit simulation includes: simulating, by a processing device, behavior of a heterojunction bipolar transistor device based on at least a first base-emitter voltage of the transistor to determine a first base or collector current density of the HBT device; and determining whether the application of the first base-emitter voltage to the HBT device will result in base current degradation by performing a first comparison of the first current density with a first current density limit. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142411 | Method and System for Generating a Nuclear Reactor Core Loading Distribution - The generation of a nuclear core loading distribution includes receiving a reactor core parameter distribution associated with a state of a reference nuclear reactor core, generating an initial fuel loading distribution for a simulated beginning-of-cycle (BOC) nuclear reactor core, selecting an initial set of positions for a set of regions within the simulated BOC core, generating an initial set of fuel design parameter values utilizing a design variable of each of the regions, calculating a reactor core parameter distribution of the simulated BOC core utilizing the generated initial set of fuel design parameter values associated with the set of regions located at the initial set of positions of the simulated BOC core and generating a loading distribution by performing a perturbation process on the set of regions of the simulated BOC core to determine a subsequent set of positions for the set of regions within the simulated BOC core. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142412 | Method and System for Generating a Nuclear Reactor Core Loading Distribution - The generation of a nuclear core loading distribution includes receiving a reactor core parameter distribution associated with a state of a reference nuclear reactor core, generating an initial fuel loading distribution for a simulated beginning-of-cycle (BOC) nuclear reactor core, selecting an initial set of positions for a set of regions within the simulated BOC core, generating an initial set of fuel design parameter values utilizing a design variable of each of the regions, calculating a reactor core parameter distribution of the simulated BOC core utilizing the generated initial set of fuel design parameter values associated with the set of regions located at the initial set of positions of the simulated BOC core and generating a loading distribution by performing a perturbation process on the set of regions of the simulated BOC core to determine a subsequent set of positions for the set of regions within the simulated BOC core. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142413 | Method and System for Generating a Nuclear Reactor Core Loading Distribution - The generation of a nuclear core loading distribution includes receiving a reactor core parameter distribution associated with a state of a reference nuclear reactor core, generating an initial fuel loading distribution for a simulated beginning-of-cycle (BOC) nuclear reactor core, selecting an initial set of positions for a set of regions within the simulated BOC core, generating an initial set of fuel design parameter values utilizing a design variable of each of the regions, calculating a reactor core parameter distribution of the simulated BOC core utilizing the generated initial set of fuel design parameter values associated with the set of regions located at the initial set of positions of the simulated BOC core and generating a loading distribution by performing a perturbation process on the set of regions of the simulated BOC core to determine a subsequent set of positions for the set of regions within the simulated BOC core. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142414 | PROACTIVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT - Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for analyzing load responsive behavior of infrastructure components in an electronic environment for proactive management of the infrastructure components. Transaction data on multiple application transactions is collected. Load patterns are identified from the collected transaction data for generating load profiles. Data on infrastructure behavior in response to the application transactions is collected. Infrastructure behavior patterns are identified from the infrastructure behavior data for generating behavior profiles. The generated load profiles and the generated behavior profiles are correlated to create a load responsive behavior model. The created load responsive behavior model predicts behavior of the infrastructure components for different load patterns. A live data stream from current application transactions is analyzed using the load responsive behavior model to determine current load responsive behavior. Deviations of the current load responsive behavior from the predicted behavior are detected using the load responsive behavior model. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142415 | E-Services Translation Utilizing Machine Translation and Translation Memory - A system and method for translating data from a source language to a target language is provided wherein machine generated target translation of a source sentence is compared to a database of human generated target sentences. If a matching human generated target sentence is found, the human generated target sentence may be used instead of the machine generated sentence, since the human generated target sentence is more likely to be a well-formed sentence than the machine generated sentence. The system and method does not rely on a translation memory containing pairs of sentences in both source and target languages, and minimizes the reliance on a human translator to correct a translation generated by machine translation. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142416 | METHOD OF RECOGNIZING SITUATION REQUIRING TRANSLATION AND PERFORMING TRANSLATION FUNCTION, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - Disclosed are a method of recognizing a translation situation and performing a translation function, and an electronic device implementing the same. The electronic device recognizes a situation involving translation and automatically performs a translation function, thereby improving user convenience. An electronic device includes an audio module configured to receive and output audio signal, and a processor. A language translation program is executed in response to detecting that an audio signal received through the audio module includes at least a first language and a second language, a portion of the audio signal that is in the second language is translated into the first language, and the translated portion is outputted through the audio module. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142417 | TRANSLATION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A translation device and a control method thereof are provided, where the translation device includes an image capturing module, an eye tracing module, a processing module, and a prompt module. The processing module electrically connects to the image capturing module, the eye tracing module, and the prompt module. The image capturing module acquires an external image. The eye tracing module traces a gazing area of an eye of a user and according to states of the eye, generates a triggering signal. When receiving the triggering signal, the processing module superimposes the gazing area and the external image, and translates a text, which the gazing area focuses on, in the external image from a first language to a second language. The prompt module generates a prompt signal carrying the translation result of the second language. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142418 | Error Correction in Tables Using a Question and Answer System - Mechanisms are provided for performing tabular data correction in a document. The mechanisms receive a natural language document comprising a portion of content and analyze the portion of content within the natural language document to identify an erroneous sub-portion comprising an erroneous or missing item of information. The mechanisms generate a semantic signature for the erroneous sub-portion and generate a query based on the semantic signature. The mechanisms apply the query to a knowledge base to identify a candidate sub-portion of content. The mechanisms correct the erroneous sub-portion using the identified candidate sub-portion of content to generate a corrected natural language document. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142419 | CONTEXTUAL VALIDATION OF SYNONYMS IN OTOLOGY DRIVEN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Embodiments described herein provide approaches for validating synonyms in ontology driven natural language processing. Specifically, an approach is provided for receiving a user input containing a token, structuring the user input into a semantic model comprising a set of classes each containing a set of related permutations of the token, designating the token as a synonym of one of the set of related permutations, annotating the token with a class from the set of classes corresponding to the one of the set of related permutations, and validating the annotation of the token by determining an accuracy of the designation of the token as a synonym of the one of the set of related permutations. In one embodiment, the accuracy is determined by quantifying a linear distance between the token and a contextual token also within the user input, and comparing the linear distance to a pre-specified linear distance limit. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142420 | DIALOGUE EVALUATION VIA MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS RANKING - In language evaluation systems, user expressions are often evaluated by speech recognizers and language parsers, and among several possible translations, a highest-probability translation is selected and added to a dialogue sequence. However, such systems may exhibit inadequacies by discarding alternative translations that may initially exhibit a lower probability, but that may have a higher probability when evaluated in the full context of the dialogue, including subsequent expressions. Presented herein are techniques for communicating with a user by formulating a dialogue hypothesis set identifying hypothesis probabilities for a set of dialogue hypotheses, using generative and/or discriminative models, and repeatedly re-ranks the dialogue hypotheses based on subsequent expressions. Additionally, knowledge sources may inform a model-based with a pre-knowledge fetch that facilitates pruning of the hypothesis search space at an early stage, thereby enhancing the accuracy of language parsing while also reducing the latency of the expression evaluation and economizing computing resources. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142421 | PROVIDING ASSISTANCE WITH REPORTING - A system for maintaining corresponding information in a structured document and in a report is disclosed. The structured document comprises structured data elements and the report comprises text in a natural language. An associating unit ( | 2015-05-21 |
20150142422 | AUTOMATIC CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGE CORRECTION AND ENHANCEMENT USING AN INTERNET CORPUS - A computer-assisted language correction system including spelling correction functionality, misused word correction functionality, grammar correction functionality and vocabulary enhancement functionality utilizing contextual feature-sequence functionality employing an internet corpus. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142423 | PHRASE-BASED DATA CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - A method of classifying data is disclosed. Text data items are received. A set of classes into which the text data items are to be classified is received. A phrase-based classifier to classify the text data items into the set of classes is selected. The phrase-based classifier is applied to classify the text data items into the classes. Here, the applying includes creating a controlled vocabulary pertaining to classifying the text data items into the set of classes, building phrases based on the text data items and the controlled vocabulary, and classifying the text data items into the set of classes based on the phrases. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142424 | Enhancement of Multichannel Audio - The invention relates to audio signal processing. More specifically, the invention relates to enhancing multichannel audio, such as television audio, by applying a gain to the audio that has been smoothed between portions of the 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. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142425 | NOISE ADAPTIVE POST FILTERING - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured to with the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to at least perform: estimating a signal to noise ratio value for an audio signal; generating a post-filter comprising at least one of: a first formant frequency filter and a second formant frequency filter, wherein the post-filter is dependent on the signal to noise ratio value for the audio signal, | 2015-05-21 |
20150142426 | Speech Enhancement Method And Device For Mobile Phones - The present invention discloses a speech enhancement method and device for mobile phones. By the method and device provided by the present invention, the mobile phone holding state of a user is detected when the user is talking on the phone, so that different denoising solutions will be employed according to the state of the user in holding the mobile phone. When the user holds the mobile phone normally, a solution integrating multi-microphone denoising and single-microphone denoising will be employed to effectively suppress both the steady noise and the non-steady noise; and when the user holds the mobile phone abnormally, a solution of single-microphone denoising will be employed only to suppress the steady noise. The distortion of speech by multi-microphone denoising is avoided, and the speech quality is ensured. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142427 | DECODER AND METHOD FOR A GENERALIZED SPATIAL-AUDIO-OBJECT-CODING PARAMETRIC CONCEPT FOR MULTICHANNEL DOWNMIX/UPMIX CASES - A decoder for generating an audio output signal having one or more audio output channels from a downmix signal having one or more downmix channels is provided. The downmix signal encodes one or more audio object signals. The decoder has a threshold determiner for determining a threshold value depending on a signal energy and/or a noise energy of at least one of the of or more audio object signals and/or depending on a signal energy and/or a noise energy of at least one of the one or more downmix channels. Moreover, the decoder has a processing unit for generating the one or more audio output channels from the one or more downmix channels depending on the threshold value. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142428 | IN-VEHICLE NAMETAG CHOICE USING SPEECH RECOGNITION - According to an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a method of choosing a nametag using automatic speech recognition (ASR). The method includes receiving a spoken nametag via a microphone; performing a first speech recognition analysis on the spoken nametag; determining that the first speech recognition analysis outputs only handheld wireless device nametags; performing a second speech recognition analysis that excludes the handheld wireless device nametags stored at the handheld wireless device; and combining the results of the first speech recognition analysis and the second speech recognition analysis. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142429 | Recording and Entertainment System - A recording and entertainment system is provided. A mobile kiosk is capable or being outfitted with one or more cameras for capturing visual content, an audio recording system, a display device, a computer to control recording, storing, processing, and playing the captured visual and audio content. The captured video and audio are then processed and edited to produce remembrance products in various forms, including videos. Karaoke function is provided by a means for recognizing songs being performed and displaying lyrics on the display. Camera tilt, noise suppression, noise cancelation, voice control of the computer, a battery pack to free kiosk for movement, means for internet communication of the visual and audio content, means for confirming that objects of the visual content capture are within the field of view, robotic control of the kiosk, and interactive gaming means are additional features that can be utilized with the system. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142430 | PRE-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - A pre-processing apparatus for speech recognition may include: a trailing silence period detection unit configured to detect the length of a trailing silence period contained in a speech signal; a reference trailing silence period storage unit configured to store the length of a reference trailing silence period; and a trailing silence period adjusting unit configured to adjust the length of the trailing silence period contained in the speech signal based on the length of the reference trailing silence period. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142431 | MULTILINGUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION AND PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to deliver an announcement to people, such as a public announcement. A computer receives input representative of audio from one or more people speaking in one or more natural languages. The computer processes the input to identify the languages being spoken, and identifies a relative proportion of each of the identified languages. Using these proportions, the computer determines one or more languages in which to deliver the announcement. The computer then causes to be delivered the announcement in the determined languages. In other embodiments, the computer can also determine an order in which to deliver the announcement. Further, the computer can transmit the announcement in the determined languages and order for delivery in aural or visual form. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142432 | Ambient Condition Detector with Processing of Incoming Audible Commands Followed by Speech Recognition - A monitoring system includes at least one detector having a housing which carries at least one ambient condition sensor. Control circuits carried by the housing are coupled to the sensor. A separate audio input transducer carried by the housing is coupled to the control circuits, wherein the circuits include signal processing circuits, coupled to the transducer. The signal processing circuits cancel predetermined audio received from the transducer and output a processed speech signal which is coupled to speech recognition circuitry. The speech recognition circuitry recognizes selected speech to implement predetermined functions. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142433 | Irregular Pattern Identification using Landmark based Convolution - Pattern identification using convolution is described. In one or more implementations, a representation of a pattern is obtained that is described using data points that include frequency coordinates, time coordinates, and energy values. An identification is made as to whether sound data described using irregularly positioned data points includes the pattern, the identifying including use of a convolution of the frequency or time coordinates to determine correspondence with the representation of the pattern. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142434 | Illustrated Story Creation System and Device - The present invention is directed to a method and device to create an illustrated story or narrative. As user dictates a narrative or story the users voice is recognized by a computer program operated on a computer and translated to text. The computer includes a microphone, a processor, and a display and can access a database that includes images. A program then interprets the text using an algorithm to select particular words from the translated text and associates an image file from the database that correspond to the selected words. The user may optionally provide other input with to select characters, themes, and objects. An algorithm processes the input from these various sources and displays the selected image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142435 | System and Method for Speech-Based Navigation and Interaction with a Device's Visible Screen Elements Using a Corresponding View Hierarchy | 2015-05-21 |
20150142436 | SPEECH RECOGNITION IN AUTOMATED INFORMATION SERVICES SYSTEMS - The present invention allows feedback from operator workstations to be used to update databases used for providing automated information services. When an automated process fails, recorded speech of the caller is passed on to the operator for decision making. Based on the selections made by the operator in light of the speech or other interactions with the caller, a comparison is made between the speech and the selections made by the operator to arrive at information to update the databases in the information services automation system. Thus, when the operator inputs the words corresponding to the speech provided at the information services automation system, the speech may be associated with those words. The association between the speech and the words may be used to update different databases in the information services automation system. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142437 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that determines a search range of one of the pieces of instruction information based on the other of a plurality of different pieces of instruction information, and effectively narrows down manipulation instruction candidates corresponding to a user even if the manipulation instruction candidates are extended. The information processing apparatus includes an instruction information receiver that receives instruction voice information indicating the instruction voice of the user acquired from the voice of the user, and instruction operation information indicating the instruction operation of the user acquired from the operation of the user, a search range determining unit that determines a search range for recognizing the instruction operation information according to the instruction voice information, or determines a search range for recognizing the instruction voice information according to the instruction operation information, and a user instruction recognizer that recognizes an instruction of the user based on a search result obtained by searching for one of the instruction voice information and the instruction operation information within the search range determined by the search range determining unit. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142438 | VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, VOICE CONTROLLING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides a voice recognition method for use in an electronic apparatus comprising a voice input module. The method comprises: receiving voice data by the voice input module; performing a first pattern voice recognition on the received voice data, including identifying whether the voice data comprises a first voice recognition information; performing a second pattern voice recognition on the voice data if the voice data comprises the first voice recognition information; and performing or refusing an operation corresponding to the first voice recognition information according to a result of the second pattern voice recognition. The present disclosure also provides a voice controlling method, an information processing method, and an electronic apparatus. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SPEAKER RECOGNITION - An authentication and authorization apparatus combines a unique identifier for a communications device with pre-stored voice recognition information. Incoming audio, associated with the unique identifier is processed to authenticate the speaker. In response to successful authentication, a requested function or action embedded in the audio can be recognized and, if authorized, implemented by a displaced system. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142440 | Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Feedback for Head Mounted Displays (HMD) - Feedback mechanisms to the user of a Head Mounted Display (HMD) are provided. It is important to provide feedback to the user when speech is recognized as soon as possible after the user utters a voice command. The HMD displays and/or audibly renders an ASR acknowledgment in a manner that ensures the user that the HMD has received/understood his voiced command. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142441 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with a voice recognition apparatus that recognizes an uttered voice of a user, an input unit configured to receive the uttered voice of the user, a display unit configured to receiving voice recognition result information about the uttered voice of the user received from the voice recognition apparatus and display the voice recognition result information, and a processor configured to, when the display apparatus is turned on, perform an access to the voice recognition apparatus by transmitting access request information to the voice recognition apparatus, and when the uttered voice is inputted through the input unit, transmit voice information on the uttered voice to the voice recognition apparatus through the communicator. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142442 | IDENTIFYING A CONTACT - A method of identifying a contact in a communication system using voice input, the method comprising: receiving an input string of characters, the input string representing a contact and being normally unpronounceable by a human voice when spoken literally; performing at least one transforming step to transform at least one character of the input string to thereby generate a pronounceable name for the contact; and outputting the pronounceable name for use in establishing a communication event with the contact using voice input. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142443 | SYNTAX PARSING APPARATUS BASED ON SYNTAX PREPROCESSING AND METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a syntax parsing apparatus based on syntax preprocessing and a method thereof. In specific, the present disclosure parses syntaxes that can be parsed by rules and patterns without ambiguity by syntax parsing preprocessing, draws all possible syntax parsing results by applying syntax rules based on a result of syntax parsing preprocessing in which ambiguity is partially resolved, and resolves structural ambiguity by applying a statistic syntax parsing model learned from a syntax tree attachment learning corpus so as to reduce ambiguity in rule-based syntax parsing and to resolve ambiguity by a statistics-based scheme so that parsing correctness and processing efficiency in a syntax parsing method can be enhanced. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142444 | AUDIO RENDERING ORDER FOR TEXT SOURCES - A method includes loading text content into at least one user device; applying at least one reading order to at least one text section of the text content to change a presentation order; converting the at least one text section to an audio output based upon the presentation order; and playing the audio output using the presentation order on the at least one user device. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142445 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a signal processing apparatus including a feature detection unit configured to detect, from an input signal, a detection signal including at least one of audience-generated-sound likelihood and music likelihood, and a vicinity-sound generation unit configured to generate vicinity sound based on the detection signal. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142446 | Credit Risk Decision Management System And Method Using Voice Analytics - A credit risk decision management system and method using voice analytics are disclosed. The voice analysis may be applied to speaker authentication and emotion detection. The system introduces use of voice analysis as a tool for credit assessment, fraud detection and a measure of customer satisfaction and return rate probability when lending to an individual or a group. Emotions in voice interactions during a credit granting process are shown to have high correlation with specific loan outcomes. This system may predicts lending outcomes that determine if a customer might face financial difficulty in near future and ascertains affordable credit limit for such a customer. Information carrying features are extracted from the customer's voice files, and mathematical and logical transformations are performed on these features to get derived features. The data is then fed to a predictive model which captures the probability of default, intent to pay and fraudulent activity involved in a credit transaction. The voice prints can also be transcribed into text and text analytics can be performed on the data obtained to infer similar lending outcomes using Natural Language Processing and predictive modeling techniques. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTEGRATED, MULTI-MODAL, MULTI-DEVICE NATURAL LANGUAGE VOICE SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for an integrated, multi-modal, multi-device natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, the environment may include a plurality of voice-enabled devices each having intent determination capabilities for processing multi-modal natural language inputs in addition to knowledge of the intent determination capabilities of other devices in the environment. Further, the environment may be arranged in a centralized manner, a distributed peer-to-peer manner, or various combinations thereof. As such, the various devices may cooperate to determine intent of multi-modal natural language inputs, and commands, queries, or other requests may be routed to one or more of the devices best suited to take action in response thereto. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142448 | FUNCTION EXECUTION INSTRUCTION SYSTEM, FUNCTION EXECUTION INSTRUCTION METHOD, AND FUNCTION EXECUTION INSTRUCTION PROGRAM - To appropriately execute a function based on a plurality of words, a function-execution instruction server of a function-execution instruction system includes: a function-execution instruction unit that issues an instruction of the execution of one or more tasks; a word input unit that inputs information containing a plurality of words that are arranged in order; and an executed-function determination unit that determines a task the execution of which is instructed on the basis of the order of words input. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142449 | Method and Device for Operating a Speech-Controlled Information System for a Vehicle - A voice input by a vehicle user is taken as a basis for determining at least one keyword from a set of prescribed keywords. The at least one keyword is taken as a basis for determining at least one event and/or at least one state from a set of events and/or states of the vehicle that are stored during a prescribed period of time. This involves the respective event and/or the respective state being stored in conjunction with at least one condition occurrence that characterizes a respective condition that needs to be met in order for the event to occur and/or the respective state to exist. In addition, a response is determined from a set of prescribed responses on the basis of the condition occurrence that is associated with the determined event and/or state. Furthermore, a signaling signal is determined on the basis of the ascertained response. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142450 | Sound Processing using a Product-of-Filters Model - Sound processing using a product-of-filters model is described. In one or more implementations, a model is formed by one or more computing devices for a time frame of sound data as a product of filters. The model is utilized by the one or more computing devices to perform one or more sound processing techniques on the time frame of the sound data. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142451 | ERROR CONCEALMENT STRATEGY IN A DECODING SYSTEM - A decoding system reconstructs an audio signal based on an input signal representing the audio signal by parametric coding or by n discretely coded channels. Parametric decoding proceeds on the basis of a core signal and mixing parameters controlling a spatial synthesis stage, which is supplied with a downmix signal. A controller is responsible for controlling the components of the decoding system, whether in steady-state parametric mode, steady-state discrete decoding mode and transitions between these. In defective frames of the input signal, which do not allow the mixing parameters to be decoded, the controller is configured to perform various error handling procedures including: parametric decoding using previous values of the mixing parameters; continuing parametric decoding for a limited duration, and/or outputting the core signal without spatial synthesis. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142452 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONCEALING FRAME ERROR AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO DECODING - Disclosed is a frame error concealment (FEC) method. The method includes: selecting an FEC mode based on states of a current frame and a previous frame of the current frame in a time domain signal generated after time-frequency inverse transform processing; and performing corresponding time domain error concealment processing on the current frame based on the selected FEC mode, wherein the current frame is an error frame or the current frame is a normal frame when the previous frame is an error frame. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142453 | ENCODING AND DECODING OF AUDIO SIGNALS - An encoder ( | 2015-05-21 |
20150142454 | HANDLING OVERLAPPING AUDIO RECORDINGS - Apparatus is configured to:
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20150142455 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a signal processing device including a signal coincidence detection portion which detects samples, in which values based on a number of times of appearance of bits coincide with each other over a plurality of samples within a pre-set period, between a first modulated signal obtained by delaying an input signal obtained by ΣΔ modulation and a second modulated signal obtained by subjecting the input signal to the ΣΔ modulation again, a signal changeover portion which switches between the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal for outputting, and a switching control portion which controls the switching between the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal by the signal changeover portion in the samples in which the values based on the number of times of the appearance coincide with each other obtained by the signal coincidence detection portion. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING EFFICIENT CROSS-FADING BETWEEN COMPRESSED AUDIO STREAMS - Systems and methods are presented for efficient cross-fading (or other multiple clip processing) of compressed domain information streams on a user or client device, such as a telephone, tablet, computer or MP3 player, or any consumer device with audio playback. Exemplary implementation systems may provide cross-fade between AAC/Enhanced AAC Plus (EAACPIus) information streams or between MP3 information streams or even between information streams of unmatched formats (e.g. AAC to MP3 or MP3 to AAC). Furthermore, these systems are distinguished by the fact that cross-fade is directly applied to the compressed bitstreams so that a single decode operation may be performed on the resulting bitstream. Moreover, using the described methods, similar cross fade in the compressed domain between information streams utilizing other formats of compression, such as, for example, MP2, AC-3, PAC, etc. can also be advantageously implemented. Thus, in exemplary embodiments of the present invention a set of frames from each input stream associated with the time interval in which a cross fade is decoded, and combined and recoded with a cross fade or other effect now in the compressed bitstream. Once sent through the client device's decoder, the user hears the transitional effect. The only input data that is decoded and processed is that associated with the portion of each stream used in the crossfade, blend or other interstitial, and thus the vast majority of the input streams are left compressed. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142457 | APPARATUS FOR, AND METHOD OF, DATA VALIDATION - An apparatus for validating data received in relation to a data input procedure concerning a medical procedure or a patient, wherein the data comprises a first value for a first variable and a second value for a second variable, comprises a likelihood unit configured to use a probabilistic data model to determine a likelihood for the second value in dependence on the first value and a notification unit configured to provide a notification to a user in dependence on the determined likelihood for the second value. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142458 | MEDICAL ADHERENCE TRACKING FRAMEWORK - A system that implements a medical adherence tracker framework receives a workflow definition, the workflow definition comprising one or more tasks. The system persists the workflow definition, and the persisting includes serializing the workflow definition. The system synchronizes the workflow definition to one or more user devices, including transmitting the serialized workflow definition to the user devices. The workflow definition includes nested objects, and the system serializes the workflow definition and nested objects separately and links the serialized objects using an object identifier. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142459 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Administering Consumer Care Initiatives - Consumer care initiatives are implemented by comparing recommended healthcare services with services assumed to have been received by the consumer which are identified through analyzing real-time consumer data. Based on the comparison, assumed gap closures in care are identified, and a consumer outreach suppression period is initiated for the one or more recommended healthcare services with the assumed gap closure during which an outreach initiative is inactive. Reactivation of the initiative may occur when the assumed gap closure is unconfirmed, or the initiative is removed when the healthcare services associated with the assumed gap closure is confirmed to have been received by the consumer. Evaluation of the real-time consumer data further allows for identification of a new disease or condition the consumer is assumed to be experiencing, resulting in the identification of assumed quality gap openings, which enables new care initiatives to be added to the consumer's outreach plan. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142460 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORDERING AND ARRANGING A DATA SET FOR A SEVERITY AND HETEROGENEITY APPROACH TO PREVENTING EVENTS INCLUDING A DISEASE STRATIFICATION SCHEME - A method and system for ordering and arranging a data set. The data set is initially accessed, the data set including includes a set of diagnostic test values and one or more outcomes for each of a plurality of patients. A first and second patient data set is retrieved from the data set. A first set of diagnostic test values are selected from the first patient data set, and a second set of diagnostic text values are selected from the second patient data set. The diagnostic test values are normalized and ordered, and equations are created describing the normalized and ordered test values. A processing device compares the created equations to determine a treatment plan for the first patient based upon determined similarities to the second patient. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142461 | HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE PROCESSING VIA A COMPUTER NETWORK - Systems and methods for processing hyperspectral image via a computer network. At a server: obtaining, from a first client in a plurality of clients, a request for a unique patient identifier; in response to the request, generating the unique patient identifier independent of patient identity; storing the unique patient identifier and information identifying the first client in a server lookup table; and transmitting the unique patient identifier to the first client; receiving, from a hyperspectral imaging device, a hyperspectral image data set, which includes including a plurality of sub-images of an object and the unique patient identifier, and the unique patient identifier is associated with the plurality of sub-images; forming a hyperspectral image using the hyperspectral image data set; identifying the first client in the plurality of clients using the unique patient identifier and the server lookup table; and transmitting, to the first client, the hyperspectral image. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142462 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION OF PATIENT DATA - A method and system for communicating medical data is presented. Patient data, scan parameters, and/or reference information may be received from a patient unit communicatively coupled to a remote unit over a communication network. The patient data may include at least an image corresponding to a patient. Further, one or more anatomical regions in the image may be identified. Additionally, ranks corresponding to the one or more anatomical regions may be computed based on the patient data, the scan parameters, and/or the reference information. Further, one or more portions of the image corresponding to the one or more anatomical regions may be iteratively transmitted from the patient unit to the remote unit based on the computed ranks. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142463 | Performance of Pharmacy Search Based on a Prescription Card - According to one embodiment, a system includes a memory and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory. The processors are operable to receive, from a user, a selection associated with a search for a pharmacy. The processors are further operable to receive an indication of a location of the user. The processors are further operable to, based at least on the selection and the indication of the location, generate a list of a plurality of potential pharmacies that are each associated with a prescription card of the user. The processors are further operable to communicate, for display to the user, the list. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142464 | WEB-ENABLED DISEASE-SPECIFIC MONITORING - A set of applications can access a specific patient's real-time or historical physiological data from a clinical care unit and calculate new disease specific physiological indicators or be a virtual physiological monitor for that patient. The applications are run on a remote server and push the resulting data to an endpoint device. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142465 | PATHWAY RECOGNITION ALGORITHM USING DATA INTEGRATION ON GENOMIC MODELS (PARADIGM) - A patient sample specific dynamic pathway map is constructed on the basis of measured patient data and a probabilistic pathway model that is based on attributes for pathway elements, wherein some attributes for pathway elements are known a priori, where other attributes for the pathway elements are assumed, and where the pathway elements are cross-correlated and assigned an influence level for at least one pathway. Preferred dynamic pathway maps provide context of the measured patient data with respect to a selected reference pathway activity. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142466 | REMOTELY-EXECUTED MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY INCLUDING EMERGENCY AUTOMATION - Devices, systems, methods, and software for providing remote medical diagnosis and therapy to a subject comprising: a module for conducting telecommunications with a telemedicalist; a module for applying a diagnostic or a therapeutic analysis; an apparatus for dispensing one or more medical items from an inventory of medical items, the inventory of medical items risk profiled to a subject, a population, a venue, or a situation; and optionally, a biosensor apparatus. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142467 | MANAGEMENT OF PHARMACY KITS - A system for managing pharmacy kits comprises a reading station configured to read tag information from a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags associated with a pharmacy kit, and an information processing system operatively connected to the reading station and configured to receive the tag information from the reading station and determine a status of the pharmacy kit based on the tag information, a plurality of stored templates defining contents to be included in each of a plurality of pharmacy kits, and a plurality of kit records indicating the current contents of a plurality of pharmacy kits. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142468 | MANAGEMENT OF PHARMACY KITS - A system for managing pharmacy kits comprises a reading station configured to read tag information from a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags associated with a pharmacy kit, and an information processing system operatively connected to the reading station and configured to receive the tag information from the reading station and determine a status of the pharmacy kit based on the tag information, a plurality of stored templates defining contents to be included in each of a plurality of pharmacy kits, and a plurality of kit records indicating the current contents of a plurality of pharmacy kits. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142469 | MANAGEMENT OF PHARMACY KITS - A system for managing pharmacy kits comprises a reading station configured to read tag information from a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags associated with a pharmacy kit, and an information processing system operatively connected to the reading station and configured to receive the tag information from the reading station and determine a status of the pharmacy kit based on the tag information, a plurality of stored templates defining contents to be included in each of a plurality of pharmacy kits, and a plurality of kit records indicating the current contents of a plurality of pharmacy kits. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142470 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING MEDICAL CODES IN AN ELECTRONIC ANESTHESIA RECORD - An apparatus for improved searching and selecting of medical coding information for an electronic anesthesia record on a multi-function gesture-sensitive device. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142471 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING THE DELIVERY OF HIGH-QUALITY HEALTH CARE OVER AN INFORMATION NETWORK - The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing healthcare information systems, and more particularly to systems and methods for coordinating the delivery of high-quality health care and medical services over an information network. In one embodiment, a processing server is configured to electronically receive a patient's health information over a data network from one or more patient systems. The processing server also includes a computer program product having a computer-usable medium including a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes said processor to execute a process that coordinates the delivery of transferrable patient health information and provides preoperative testing recommendations based on a single acquisition of electronic patient health information. The process includes the steps of retrieving patient health information; distributing patient health information over said data network; submitting automated authorization requests; providing patient-specific clinical decision support in the form of evidence-based testing guidelines and preoperative recommendations, wherein the recommendations are based on medical triggers and factors acquired from said patient health information; and generating a quality reporting record. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZED ANNOTATION OF MEDICAL INFORMATION - Systems and methods for generating customized annotations of a medical record are provided. The system receives a medical record and processes it using a predictive model to identify evidence of a finding. The system then determines whether to have a recall enhancement or validation of a specific finding. Recall enhancement is used to tune or develop the predictive model, while validation is used to rapidly validate the evidence. The source document is provided to the user and feedback is requested. When asking for validation, the system also highlights the evidence already identified and requests the user to indicate if the evidence is valid for a particular finding. If recall enhancement is utilized, the source document is provided and the user is asked to find evidence in the document for a particular finding. The user may then highlight the evidence that supports the finding. The user may also annotate the evidence using free form text. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142473 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT HANDLING OF MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION - Systems and methods for efficient medical chart review are provided. In some embodiments, medical records are received. The admissibility of each record is then determined. Next, a condition and MEAT assessment is generated for the medical records. The condition and MEAT determination each have a corresponding confidence. A determination may be made whether human quality assurance is required. If so, the medical records may be routed to one or more coders for human review. In addition, the systems and methods may also perform an audit analysis on the records, which identifies codes which have been submitted and have insufficient evidence. Lastly, a cost metric for the patient based upon the condition and MEAT determination may be generated. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142474 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED ORDER AND NOTIFICATION FOR PATIENT INTERVENTIONS BASED ON HEALTH RECORDS - Systems and methods for automatic order generation and notification for patient interventions. In an embodiment, a data repository comprising a plurality of patient health records is analyzed to identify a subset of the patient health records matching one or more criteria. The presence of the one or more criteria in a patient health record indicates that an associated patient may benefit from one or more interventions. For each patient represented in the subset of patient health records and for each of the one or more interventions, it is determined whether an order for the intervention already exists for the patient. If no order for the intervention already exists, an order for the intervention is generated. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142475 | DISTRIBUTED GRID-COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR COLLECTING, ARCHIVING, AND PROCESSING ARBITRARY DATA IN A HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT - A set of software programs runs in a parallel configuration on local hospital servers. The software gathers all the data directed to it from a hospital patient's data sources (including, but not limited to, data formats from patient monitor devices, HL7 feeds, and other hospital data systems). Data can be time-synchronized, transformed, and routed from both currently networked device and non-networked devices. The data is made available for redisplay and analysis to system users and program agents. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142476 | OPERATING SYSTEM - A new and improved operating system is described. The system enables a user to receive information in many different types of formats and converts them into a uniform format. The system can also use the information to fill out forms in different types of formats, and then send them to the appropriate recipient. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142477 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VARIATIONS IN PROJECT PROJECTIONS - An insurance product provides coverage for value escalation in a highly capitalized project. One or more indices are used to obtain a quantification of volatility of the value of the project over the project lifecycle. Probabilities of value changes over the project lifecycle can be generated from an index, which can be solely representative of the project value, or can be the result of combinations of one or more indices to approximate project value changes. The project value change probabilities are used to estimate an amount of insurance coverage that can be applied to cover project value changes. The party responsible for the project can purchase the insurance product with a premium derived from the amount and type of coverage tied to the index. The insurance product assists the responsible party in containing changes in project value over the course of the project life cycle. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142478 | PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FOR INDICATING DOCUMENTS FOR A LIFE BASED PRODUCT - A method comprising receiving at least one document that is associated with a life insurance policy; assigning a respective value to each of the at least one document, in which the value indicates a level of importance; determining a summation of the at least one document; determining an indication for the life insurance policy, in which the indication is based on the summation of the at least one document and at least one of the values; and displaying the indication. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142479 | Method And System For Drug Prescription - A method and system for estimating the best price for a prescription at a local pharmacy where both the patient and the physician are able to see the best prescription price and location of the pharmacy to make a healthcare choice. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142480 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESCRIPTION MANAGEMENT - A system and method for prescription management is disclosed. The system includes a prescription management non-transitory storage medium that guides a healthcare provider licensed to write one or more prescriptions, the healthcare provider licensed to write the one or more prescriptions chooses from one or more prescriptions offered by an insurance carrier. The method includes a patient user enrolling in a Medicaid or a health insurance plan on a website, controlling the web database system by a Medicaid provider or a health insurance carrier and the Medicaid provider or the health insurance carrier selecting one or more economical prescriptions from the web database system to treat the patient user. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142481 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCESS TO A RESOURCE - A resource access management system and method for managing user access to a resource having a number of resource slots. Each resource slot can be used by a user. The resource access management system is provided with a primary access configured to allow a user to access the resource, the primary access having a first entry point and a first exit point. A secondary access is also provided that is configured to allow users to access the resource. The resource access management system is configured to determine an apparent wait time based on a number of users entering the primary access and the secondary access, and a predetermined resource time associated with the resource. The resource access management system is further configured to periodically determine an actual wait time of a selected user between entering the first entry point and exiting first exit point, and can then calculate a wait time for the primary access using both the apparent wait time and the actual wait time. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142482 | SEARCH ENGINE FOR IDENTIFYING BUSINESS TRAVEL PROPOSALS - Systems, methods, and computer program products for ranking and selecting travel-related search results for display to a traveler. The system may receive data identifying a preferred travel proposal from each of a plurality of travelers, and analyze the data to determine a value utility function. The value utility function may then be used to assign a relative utility to travel proposals identified in response to a search query from a traveler. Additional data relating to a pricing sensitivity of a payer may be received from an entity paying for travel, such as a corporation or other business entity. The system may analyze the pricing sensitivity data to define a price utility function that quantifies the price of each travel proposal. A composite utility function that is a weighted sum of the value and price utility functions may be used to select search results for display to the traveler. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142483 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC TICKET VALIDATION USING PROXIMITY DETECTION - This invention discloses a novel system and method for automated protocols between a mobile device and an electronic ticketing verification system, where proximity detection is used to automatically display the verification or to automatically control entry gates or turnstiles when the mobile device is verified has holding a valid ticket and being located in a specific location associated with the ticket. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142484 | CARPOOL SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND CARPOOL SERVER USING THE SAME - The invention discloses a carpool service providing method and a carpool server using the same. The method includes the following steps: generating a carpool population matrix according to a plurality of carpool requests received from a plurality of passengers and drivers; generating a first carpool matching result and a second carpool matching result according to the carpool population matrix; performing a routing procedure to each of the first and second segments; respectively comparing the segment fitness value of one of the second segments with the segment fitness value of the corresponding first segment and updating the second carpool matching result by replacing the one of the second segments with the corresponding first segment if the segment fitness value of the one of the second segments is worse than the segment fitness value of the corresponding first segment; updating the carpool population matrix according to the updated second carpool matching result. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142485 | PROBE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PROBE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROBE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A probe information management device, includes: a probe condition specification unit that generates a condition input screen for a first user to designate, using an input device, specification conditions including a first area, a stopover location, a second area, and a date and time, and that outputs the condition input screen to an output device,; and a probe information acquisition unit that, based on the specification conditions, acquires specified probe information corresponding to a moving history of a vehicle that has passed through, in order, a ground point within the first area, the stopover location, and a ground point within the second area, wherein: the first area and the second area are both specified by drawing input, using the input device; and when outputting the specified probe information to the output device, the probe condition specification unit outputs the first area and the second area to the output device. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLOUD-BASED DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT - The present invention relates to systems and methods for cloud-based digital asset management. In some embodiments, the cloud-based digital asset management accesses one or more digital asset platforms. Digital assets are collected from these platforms. The digital assets include metadata and may be designated as pending. A user has the ability to update the digital assets status to an approved status. The approved digital assets may then be published to digital asset platforms. Publishing may be performed as a one-click publishing if the user ID is linked to one or more social media accounts. Publishing may also be performed batch wise. The digital assets may also be organized into playlists to facilitate digital asset management and publishing. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BENCHMARKING INTERNAL SUPPLIER DIVERSITY GOALS - Apparatus, methods and media for benchmarking diverse spend opportunities are provided. A method according to the invention preferably includes receiving financial data corresponding to entity diverse spend and financial data corresponding to total entity spend. The method may further include sorting the data corresponding to NAICS, UNSPSC or SIC code. The method may further include allocating an NAICS, UNSPSC or SIC code in the first column of a spreadsheet, allocating the data corresponding to entity diverse spend (“ds spend”) in the second column, allocating the data corresponding to entity total spend (“t spend”) in the third column; and place the following equation in each of the cells of the fourth column: =(ds spend/t spend)*100. The method may further include displaying a list of the percentages of entity diverse spend (“ped(s)”) for each NAICS, UNSPSC or SIC code based on the information in the fourth column. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142488 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING STAFF BASED ON NORMALIZED PERFORMANCE - A system and method of ranking individuals based on a value per event using a processing system, the processing system comprising a processing device, a database for storing data, and communication processing devices, each of which is in communication with the processing device via a communication network, the method including assigning, by the processing device, a value to each item of a first group of items; assigning, by the processing device, a second group of specific items selected from the first group of items to individuals for promotion; determining, by the processing device, for each event, during a pre-determined period of time, a number of each item from the second group of specific items sold by each individual; normalizing, by the processing device, the number of each item sold based on a shift worked by each individual; determining, by the processing device, a value per event for each individual; and ranking the individuals based on the value per event. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142489 | OPTIMIZING ONSITE VENDOR BUSINESS - Systems and methods are provided to optimize a vendor's schedule by analyzing potential follow-up tasks and suggesting suitable follow-up tasks that satisfy certain criteria. The total revenue per hour of the follow-up task may be calculated by taking travel time to and from the follow-up task into account and compared to total revenue per hour calculated based on the vendor's historical job information. Coupon rates that may be offered to the customer associated with the follow-up task may also be determined algorithmically and suggested to the vendor. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142490 | SCHEDULE MANAGER - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for managing user schedules. The system presents, via a graphical user interface, an available agent scale having multiple portions including an active agent indicator portion, a first status indicator portion, a second status indicator portion, and an inactive agent portion. The active agent indicator portion can indicate a total number of agents scheduled to be active in an environment over a course of a period. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142491 | MANAGEMENT OF FIELD-BASED WORKERS - Systems and methods for managing task-driven field-based workers are described. In an embodiment, a distributed system comprises a component running on a mobile device which displays an activity-based workflow to a user. At transition points in the workflow, one or more activity transactions are transmitted from the mobile device to an Activity Processing Engine. A transaction may comprise: a start time, a start location, an end time, an end location and an activity code, although for a ‘start activity’ transaction, the fields relating to the end of the activity will be null/absent. The Activity Processing Engine analyses the data to generate task-based milestones and behavioural scores for the field-based worker, which may be aggregated over multiple shifts. The detailed information about the activities on shift and the behavioural scores are presented in a graphical user interface which provides objective data about how a worker goes about completing their tasks. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142492 | VOICE-BASED HEALTH MONITOR INCLUDING A VOCAL ENERGY LEVEL MONITOR - A system is described that captures voice samples from a subject and determines a relative energy level of the subject from the captured voice samples. A baseline energy level for the subject is initially determined during a system training session when the subject is in a good state of health and vocalizes words or phrases for analysis by the system. Subsequently, voice samples are taken of the subject, e.g. during a work shift, to monitor the subject's fatigue levels to determine whether the subject is capable of continuing his work assignment safely, or whether the subject and the subject's work product needs to be more closely monitored. In a different application, voice samples of a subject can be taken regularly during telephone conversations, and the corresponding energy level of the subject obtained from the voice samples can be used as a general health indicator. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142493 | Resource Scheduling And Monitoring - A resource scheduling system includes a set of resources and associated resource attributes, a representation of resource demands, and a scheduling module for generating a schedule of resource utilization. The representation of resource demands and availability may include information about time slots, calendars, and shifts. A slot is a representation of a demand for one or more individual item. A calendar is a representation of dates when resources are needed. Each shift represents a set of time intervals of resource demands. Additionally, the system keeps track of individual resource availability and preferences and attempts to create a resource utilization schedule that satisfies all constraints generated based on the time slots, calendars, shifts, and resource schedules. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142494 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING TEMPORARY RESOURCES - Computer-aided systems and methods of scheduling resources, such as human resources and temporary human resources in particular, including steps of forecasting a required revenue for an operation in at least one desired time slot, reviewing historical revenue data of said operation or a similar operation, analysing said required revenue and said historical revenue and determining a work effort metric for said at least one desired time slot to meet said required revenue, generated or selecting a template for said at least one desired time slot showing the desired said work effort metric, and filling said template by allocating specific resources to said at least one desired time slot. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142495 | INTEGRATED APPOINTMENT SCHEDULER AND MANAGEMENT TOOL - A system and method for automatic integrated appointment scheduling and management where in response to an input a first profile and a second profile are associated and an association heuristic automatically retrieves a plurality of availability instances of the profile. The plurality of availability instances are then presented through an interface for selection. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142496 | HYDROCARBON MATRIX SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A matrix system for performing hydrocarbon operations involving exploration, production, transportation, and delivery of hydrocarbons. The matrix system includes a matrix unit, a user terminal, a tag, and a gatekeeper. The matrix unit includes a multi-dimensional matrix including bins to receive hydrocarbon materials, with fields including rows, columns, levels, and themes. Each bin corresponds to one of the rows, columns, levels, and themes. The user terminal includes a user input to upload the hydrocarbon materials to the matrix unit and a user output to receive the hydrocarbon materials from the matrix. The tag is operatively connectable to the hydrocarbon materials. The gatekeeper includes reviewers to review the hydrocarbon materials and to define access criteria and the plurality of fields for each of the tags, and a system custodian to selectively apply the tag to the hydrocarbon materials based on the review whereby the hydrocarbon materials are selectively accessible by users. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142497 | ON-DEMAND VEHICLE SERVICE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ON-DEMAND VEHICLE SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND ON-DEMAND VEHICLE SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An operation management center uses desired provision content and desired provision time of a commodity or service to determine a first operation schedule in which a user is moved to a location at which the commodity or the service is to be provided or a second operation schedule in which the commodity or the service is moved to a location at which the provision of the commodity or the service is to be received by the user. The center determines the first operation schedule or the second operation schedule so as to satisfy the desired provision time desired by the user. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142498 | COMMISSIONING SYSTEM AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - The invention generally relates to systems and methods for providing automated process-driven workflow management during a commissioning process. A user may customize the commissioning process by way of user-generated workflow list. A user may map one or more commissioning steps to a specific component of a system, such as a component of a piece of electrical equipment, to be commissioned. The user may assign dependencies for one or more of the mapped steps, including start criteria that identify which steps must be successfully completed before a subsequent step may begin, and completion criteria, which identify what type of issues must be completely resolved before a certain step (or milestone) may be completed. Accordingly, the present invention may enable a user to generate an intuitive and automated process-driven workflow for improving the commissioning process. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142499 | MULTI-INTERVAL DISPATCH SYSTEM TOOLS FOR ENABLING DISPATCHERS IN POWER GRID CONTROL CENTERS TO MANAGE CHANGES - A system tool that provides dispatchers in power grid control centers with a capability to manage changes. Included is a user interface and a plurality of scheduler engines. Each scheduler engine is configured to look ahead at different time frames to forecast system conditions and alter generation patterns within the different time frames. A comprehensive operating plan holds schedules generated by the plurality of scheduler engines. A relational database is coupled to the comprehensive operating plan. Input data is initially received from the relational database for each scheduling engine, and thereafter the relational database receives data from the scheduling engines relative to forecast system conditions. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142500 | DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL INVENTORY TRANSSHIPMENT - A method for enabling enhanced decision-making when shipping parts between sites within an organization includes receiving a plurality of orders to deliver parts from a first site to a second site. The method determines a shipping option for shipping the parts from the first site to the second site and, for each of the orders, a transportation risk associated with the shipping option. The transportation risk varies in accordance with a probability that the shipping option will result in a delay, and an amount of revenue that will be affected as a result of the delay. The transportation risk for each of the orders is displayed in a matrix. The method further enables a user to modify the shipping option to adjust the position of each transportation risk within the matrix. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142501 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING BUSINESS SERVICES AND ENHANCING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE THROUGH A BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING NOTATION - The various embodiments herein provide a system and method for executing business services through a business process modelling notation. The system comprising a rule parser to parse the business domain specific rules, a rule object builder to generate a plurality of rule objects to execute the rules, a rule repository to store the rule objects, a rule executor to execute the rule objects, an event listener to store events raised by a business service in an event queue, an event registry to store information related to a plurality of events, an event processor to process the events and an event queue to hold the events which are being processed concurrently. The event processor comprises an event log module, an event router module, a subscriber notification module and a rule invocation module. The performance of the system is enhanced using techniques comprising pre-execution, branch parallelization, branch prediction, branch result caching and distributed task delegation. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142502 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING TASKS - Methods and systems for creating one or more tasks. One or more electronic documents are clustered in one or more first groups based on a similarity of handwriting in the one or more electronic documents. Each electronic document of each of the one or more first groups is partitioned into one or more partitions. Each of the one or more partitions is assigned an area identification number. The one or more tasks are created such that each task of the one or more tasks includes a partition, from each electronic document of the one or more electronic documents, having same area identification number. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142503 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - In a desktop for workflow management, a global task list of tasks to be performed is generated. The global task list includes a sequence of plural individual task lists ordered according to a configurable task list order. Each individual task list contains one or more tasks ordered according to respective individual task list sort criteria, and each individual task list is updated automatically through a notification mechanism. For each individual task list in the global task list, respective tasks that form part of the individual task list are listed in the global task list in order of appearance in the individual task list. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142504 | INTERFACE TO SELECT APPLICATION BASED ON STATE TRANSITION MODELS OF WORK - An application selection system for completing a work process includes an environment activity module that detects at least one event to determine an environmental activity occurring in an environment exposed to a user of the application selection system. A user activity module detects at least one user activity to determine at least one active state of the user. The application selection system further includes an application determining unit in electrical communication with the environment activity module and the user activity module. The application determining unit is configured to determine a passive state of the user, at least one work task included in the work process and a suitable application among a plurality of applications to execute the at least one work task. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142505 | PROCESSING EVENT INSTANCE DATA IN A CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE - A process analysis system processes event data describing real-world processes. The process analysis system performs the following acts: importing event instance data sets from an information management system, each set having one or more attributes describing an event instance in the real-world process; for each event instance, determining a corresponding process instance based on at least the attributes; determining event order attribute(s) for each imported event instance data set based on other event instance data sets corresponding to the same process instance; forming an analysis result set based on at least the event instance data sets and at least one first or second attribute; the client(s) presenting an analysis utilizing the analysis result set. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142506 | Account Health Assessment, Risk Identification, and Remediation - A method and system for determining account health, identifying and rating hidden and visible risks, and identifying remediation actions in response to identified risks and as a means to improve account health scores is provided. The method includes retrieving metrics associated with a customer account of a customer. Aggregated metrics from the metrics and additional aggregated metrics are generated and stored. Weighting factors are applied to the aggregated metrics and the additional aggregated metrics. Attributes of events and symptoms of incidents are modeled to identify best fit & possible root causes. In response, overall health & risk scores for the customer account are calculated | 2015-05-21 |
20150142507 | RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR SPECIFYING AND ACHIEVING GOALS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for recommending one or more indicators to be monitored. In some implementations, actions include receiving user input, the user input indicating a measure selected by a user, identifying a plurality of dimensions corresponding to the measure, receiving goal data, the goal data being provided by the user, determining a rank for each dimension of the plurality of dimensions, each rank being determined based on a risk and a contribution associated with a respective dimension, the risk being determined based on the goal data, and providing dimensions of the plurality of dimensions for display to the user, the dimensions being displayed based on rank, each dimension filtering the measure to provide a respective filtered measure, the filtered measure being an indicator that can be monitored. | 2015-05-21 |
20150142508 | INCIDENT PLAYBOOK GENERATED IN REAL TIME FROM DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN EXTRACTIONS - Systems, methods and procedures enabling an incident planner to build and distribute disaster response playbooks to be used by incident responders. Information is excerpted from multiple plan documents (such as disaster recovery, crisis management, business continuity, or emergency response plans) that includes only what are the essential personnel contacts, tasks, and resources needed at time of disaster. | 2015-05-21 |