22nd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150149113 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING POSITION OF MULTI-AXIS TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for transmitting a position of a multi-axis transport system and a method thereof, and provides an apparatus for transmitting a position of a multi-axis transport system capable of providing an accurately detected position of a nondestructive system to a user by converting a sensor signal for measuring a position of the multi-axis transport system into position information (x, y, and z coordinates) which may be matched to the detected position of the nondestructive system and then transmitting the converted position information to the nondestructive system via high speed communication (e.g., Local Area Network (LAN) or Peripheral component Interconnect (PCI)), and a method thereof. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149114 | Monitoring Integrity of a Riser Pipe Network - Methods and systems are described for monitoring the integrity of a subsea pipeline network to transport the production fluid from a subsurface wellhead to surface facilities. More specifically, the described methods and systems are for monitoring the integrity of a riser pipe network and can include installing one or more inclinometers to the buoyancy tank and/or vertical riser structures. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149115 | Multi-function Padded Pants - A multi-purpose athletic garment including a pair of pants composed of an athletic performance material, the athletic garment possesses two knee pockets of durable textile material and including removably attached shock absorbing pads which may be inserted and removed. The pads allow for a user to sustain repeated impacts to the knee region like the ones often taken in a game of mini hockey or knee hockey. The pads can be removed so the pants can be worn outside of gameplay or machine washed. The multi-purpose athletic garment is utilized for knee hockey, other similar athletic events and general wear purposes. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149116 | WEARABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A wearable device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed herein. The wearable device, comprising a bio-signal sensor unit configured to sense a bio-signal; a storage unit configured to store data; and a processor configured to control the bio-signal sensor unit and the storage unit, wherein the processor is further configured to: generate first reference data including a weight of a first reference object and a first bio-signal being generated by holding the first reference object when the first bio-signal is detected, generate measurement data including a second bio-signal being generated by holding a measurement object, when the second bio-signal is detected, and obtain a weight of the measurement object by comparing the measurement data with the first reference data. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149117 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SETTING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention provides an electronic device including a situation detecting unit for detecting the present situation of a user, an acquiring unit for acquiring previously stored information on life log of the user, a situation determining unit for determining whether or not the present situation of the user conforms to a behavior pattern based on the life log information, a device setting unit for setting the function of the electronic device in accordance with the behavior pattern in the case that the situation determining unit determines that the present situation of the user conforms to the behavior pattern based on the life log information, and a life log information detecting unit for detecting life log information in the case that the situation determining unit determines that the present situation of the user does not conform to the behavior pattern based on the life log information. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149118 | Mobile Asset Data Recorder and Transmitter - An acceleration-based mobile asset data recorder and transmitter equipped with a wireless processing unit, an event recorder, a digital video recorder, a fuel level sensor, and an inertial navigation sensor board. The inertial navigation sensor board includes a 3-axis gyroscope, a 3-axis accelerometer, a 3-axis magnetometer, and a microcontroller. The data recorder and transmitter allows for automatic orientation, automatic compass calibration, fuel compensation with pitch and roll, emergency brake application with impact detection, rough operating condition detection, engine running detection, and inertial navigation of a mobile asset. Users can use the normal operation of their mobile assets to locate and alert, in real-time, areas where their assets are encountering rough operating environments, to provide for quicker emergency response, and to validate the effectiveness of repairs and rerouting. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149119 | WAVELET BASED MONITORING OF SYSTEM PARAMETERS - Systems and methods are provided for monitoring parameters within a system. A plurality of sensors each monitor at least one parameter associated with the system. A controller is configured to receive a signal representing the monitored at least one parameter from each of the plurality of sensors and adjust a function of the system based on the received signal. Respective discrete wavelet transform components are associated with each of the plurality of sensors. Each of the discrete wavelet transform components is configured to provide a set of discrete wavelet transform coefficients, representing a content of the signal for its associated sensor, to a discrete wavelet transform monitoring component. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149120 | COOKING CONTROL DEVICE, COOKING CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The present invention relates to a cooking control device that comprises sensors ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150149121 | INTERRUPT DRIVEN PROCESSING AND RELATED DEVICES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Devices, methods and systems are provided for processing measurement data. An exemplary device includes a first module to provide data and an interrupt, a control module coupled to the first module to obtain the data from the first module and provide an indication after obtaining the data, and an interrupt control module coupled to the first module and the control module to notify the first module to clear the interrupt in response to the indication from the control module. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149122 | HANDHELD DATA COLLECTOR AND ANALYZER SYSTEM - A handheld measurement device incorporating both a data collector and an analyzer is disclosed. The data collector of the device receives one or more external input signals and stores the data collected for later retrieval and analysis. In one embodiment these input signals are received from sensors used to collect measurements in machine systems for predictive maintenance purposes. The analyzer using software routines in accordance with a method of the present invention retrieves and processes the collected data using filtering techniques and performs calculations that determine the absence or presence of a machine system defect. Additionally, the handheld measurement device includes a display for providing a user with one or more different visual presentations of the calculated results with respect to the collected measured data or alternatively provides the user the option of transferring the calculated results either directly or wirelessly to the display used with any other computer system. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149123 | ELECTRET TYPE VIBRATION DETECTION SYSTEM, METHOD OF CREATING EXTERNAL VIBRATION INFORMATION, METHOD OF CREATING TRANSFER FUNCTION INFORMATION REGARDING EXTERNAL VIBRATION, PROGRAM FOR CREATING EXTERNAL VIBRATION INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM FOR CREATING TRANSFER FUNCTION INFORMATION REGARDING EXTERNAL VIBRATION - An electret type vibration detection system has a vibration-powered generator that performs vibration-induced power generation by displacing on a basis of external vibration an electret group formed of a plurality of electrets and an electrode group having a plurality of electrode pairs in a relative movement direction to output a vibration-induced voltage between electrodes of the electrode pair, and a transfer function memory section that stores transfer function information that defines a correlation between a vibration velocity of the external vibration and an output power voltage of the vibration-powered generator in a range of a predetermined frequency included in the external vibration, wherein the transfer function information contains a transfer coefficient set according to each of a plurality of frequencies belonging to the predetermined frequency range to place the vibration velocity of the external vibration and the output power voltage of the vibration-powered generator in a predetermined proportional relationship. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149124 | AIRCRAFT SYSTEM VERIFICATION - A verification method for an aircraft system comprises retrieving logical design data associated with the system, and physical design data associated with the system; extracting data from a computer model of the system; converting the retrieved logical and physical design data and the extracted data into a common data format; and performing a difference analysis of the logical and physical design data with the extracted data from the model to identify any non-conformances between the logical design data, the computer model and the physical design data. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149125 | PERFORATED PLATE FOR PRODUCING GRANULES FROM THERMOPLASTIC MATERIAL AND FOR PRODUCING SUCH A PERFORATED PLATE - A perforated plate for producing granulate or microgranulate from a thermoplastic plastic material and a method of manufacturing a perforated plate for producing granulate or microgranulate from a thermoplastic plastic material, wherein the perforated plate comprises a plurality of nozzle bores. The lengths of the nozzle bores are respectively sized such that each nozzle bore of the plurality of nozzle bores allows a substantially uniform flow rate of a melt material. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149126 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMING AND UTILIZING BENDING MAPS FOR OBJECT DESIGN - Systems and methods for designing digital representations of 3-D objects and manufacturing such objects are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the systems and methods described relate to bending maps that define regions on a physical object that can be bent or manipulated in order to design the 3-D object. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149127 | Methods and Systems to Synthesize Road Elevations - Embodiments disclosed herein relate to synthesis of road elevation values. An embodiment includes traversing one or more road paths from a point in a road network model to identify intersections of the traversed road paths with terrain elevation values in an elevation model corresponding to the road network model, and interpolating an elevation value for the point using elevation values associated with the identified intersections, where the traversing and the interpolating are performed for each point on the road network model. In an embodiment, the interpolating can be performed when the point's elevation value is unavailable in the elevation model due to one or more non-terrain features overlapping the point and preventing measurement of the point's elevation value. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149128 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING MODEL PARAMETERS OF ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS USING TRAJECTORY SENSITIVITIES - A computer system for analyzing system parameters of a simulation model for an electrical power system includes a processor programmed to generate a trajectory sensitivities matrix for the electrical power system using a dynamic model of the electrical power system that includes a plurality of system parameters, and to identify a plurality of well-conditioned parameters for a first disturbance from the plurality of system parameters based at least in part on the trajectory sensitivities matrix. The processor is also programmed to generate a first pair of well-conditioned parameters from the plurality of well-conditioned parameters. The first pair includes a first parameter and a second parameter. The processor is further programmed to compute a dependence value between the first parameter and the second parameter, and to provide an indicator of dependence between the first parameter and the second parameter using the dependence value. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149129 | Methods And Systems For Reporting Realistic Kinetic Energy Of A Multi-part Finite Element Analysis Model - Techniques for reporting realistic kinetic energy of a multi-part FEA model are disclosed. FEA model representing a product is received. The product contains more than one parts, each part comprises multiple finite elements. Nodal lumped masses are defined therein to ensure a realistic mass distribution. Kinetic energy of the nodal lumped masses shared by multiple parts is acutely computed for the shared parts. Each of the nodal lumped masses is allocated and accumulated into respective portions as an added mass contribution in accordance with a set of predefined rules for various sharing situations of the finite elements that share the nodal lumped mass. Numerically-simulated structural responses are obtained by conducting a time marching simulation using the FEA model. Finally, kinetic energy of each finite element is reported; calculated using the obtained structural responses, the element mass, and the corresponding added mass contribution from the nodal lumped masses. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149130 | POWER CONSUMPTION PREDICTION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A power consumption prediction apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. The power consumption prediction apparatus receives a plurality of power consumption data of an appliance, wherein the power consumption data have a temporal sequence. Each power consumption datum includes a recorded status and a recorded time length, wherein each recorded status is one of a plurality operation statuses of the appliance. The power consumption prediction apparatus calculates an average operation time length of each operation status according to the recorded statuses and the recorded time lengths and calculates at least one transferring probability of each operation status according to the temporal sequence and the power consumption data. Each transferring probability is the probability of entering into a target status from a source status, wherein the source status is one of the operation statuses and the target status is one of the operation statuses. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149131 | SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION PROGRAM, PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIMULATOR, AND DESIGN METHOD - A simulation method includes acquiring a processing condition for performing predetermined processing on a processing target with use of plasma, calculating a solid angle corresponding to a field-of-view region through which plasma space is viewable from a predetermined evaluation point in the predetermined evaluation point on a surface of the processing target based on the processing condition, and calculating an incident radical amount entering the evaluation point by a flux method with use of a function which takes a reaction probability between the solid angle and the evaluation point of a radical entering the evaluation point as an argument. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149132 | TIME-STACKING METHOD FOR DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS - A time-stacking method is disclosed. The time-stacking method simulates dynamics so as to obtain time-domain trajectories which correspond to a disturbance or event. The method includes providing a model for the system. The model includes differential equations and algebraic equations. The method also includes solving the differential equations and the algebraic equations over a predetermined number of time steps simultaneously using an implicit integration scheme. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149133 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ASSISTANCE DATA WITH VERTICAL ACCESS AREAS AND PREDICTED VERTICAL MOVEMENT MODELS - Assistance data for indoor positioning is generated with vertical access areas, such as stairs, elevators, and escalators, identified along with predicted vertical movement models for the vertical access area. The predicted vertical movement models provide probabilities of movement to different floors by the vertical access areas. The assistance data may be generated by acquiring a floor plan data for a structure having multiple floors and analyzing the floor plan data to detect vertical access areas. The predicted vertical movement model for the vertical access area may then be generated and included in the assistance data along with the vertical access area. Mobile devices using the assistance data may provide vertical access area feedback information that may be used to modify the assistance data. For example, the probability of movement to different floors by a vertical access area may be modified, or additional vertical access areas identified. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149134 | Learning Expected Operational Behavior Of Machines From Generic Definitions And Past Behavior - In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises storing one or more generic machine operating definitions, wherein each of the generic machine operating definitions describes expected operational behavior of one or more types of machines during one or more operating states; analyzing operating data that describes past operation of a plurality of machines of a plurality of types; based at least in part on the operating data and the one or more generic machine operating definitions, generating and storing one or more machine operating models that describe expected operational behavior corresponding to a plurality of operating states of the plurality of machines; wherein the one or more machine operating models comprise a plurality of data patterns, wherein each of the data patterns is associated with a different set of one or more operating states of one or more machines; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149135 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING THE PERFORMANCE OF A SHIP - A computer-implemented method is disclosed to produce a model that predicts performance of a ship by creating an initial model based on relationships between factors related to the ship during operation and parameters representing primary dynamic input data that depend on the factors. Measurement results are obtained from sensors during the operation of the ship for producing a set of new dynamic input data to be used in the model. If a difference between a simulation result and an actual operation exceeds defined threshold criteria, the model is improved by repeatedly producing new sets of dynamic input data until defined quality criteria are met. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149136 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATION OF SHIP PERFORMANCE - A computer-implemented method and a system are disclosed for evaluation of the performance of a ship. Performance variables of a ship and dynamic input parameters that affect the performance variables are defined. The dependencies between the performance variables and the dynamic input parameters are then learned automatically to provide an initial model for simulating the performance. The initial model is updated to be used as the model in further operation and further updating the model until the model meets preset quality criteria for a model to be used. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149137 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING AN AIRCRAFT - A method for designing an aircraft includes defining an initial catalog of requirements for at least one aircraft design. An optimization of the at least one aircraft design is carried out based on the catalog of requirements in terms of anticipated operating costs. A predefined total flight network is simulated with the at least one aircraft design and a total flight network efficiency is determined. It is then checked as to whether the determined total flight network efficiency constitutes an optimum. The catalog of requirements is adapted and an iteration is performed upon a determination that the determined total flight network efficiency does not constitute the optimum. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149138 | SLUG FLOW INITIATION IN FLUID FLOW MODELS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for modeling slug flow. The method includes receiving a fluid flow model comprising a representation of one or more conduits and a multiphase fluid flow therein, and determining a slug birth rate in the multiphase fluid flow. The slug birth rate is determined based at least partially on a difference between a slug front velocity and a slug tail velocity. The method also includes initiating a slug in the fluid flow model based at least partially on the slug birth rate, and displaying data representative of the slug flow in the model. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149139 | Data Compression of Hydrocarbon Reservoir Simulation Grids - A dense volumetric grid coming from an oil/gas reservoir simulation output is translated into a compact representation that supports desired features such as interactive visualization, geometric continuity, color mapping and quad representation. A set of four control curves per layer results from processing the grid data, and a complete set of these 3-dimensional surfaces represents the complete volume data and can map reservoir properties of interest to analysts. The processing results yield a representation of reservoir simulation results which has reduced data storage requirements and permits quick performance interaction between reservoir analysts and the simulation data. The degree of reservoir grid compression can be selected according to the quality required, by adjusting for different thresholds, such as approximation error and level of detail. The processions results are of potential benefit in applications such as interactive rendering, data compression, and in-situ visualization of large-scale oil/gas reservoir simulations. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESERVOIR SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION - A method of solving a optimization problem is described. The method includes creating an initial model having a plurality of wells, each well being associated with a parameter and dividing the well field into first and second regions, the first region including a first subset of the plurality of wells and the second region including a second subset of the plurality of wells. The method also includes solving for the parameters associated with the wells in the first subset to get a first set of values while holding constant the parameters associated with the wells in the second subset, setting the parameters associated with the wells in the first subset to the first set of values, and solving for the parameters associated with the wells in the second subset to get a second set of values while holding constant the parameters associated with the wells in the first subset. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149141 | WELL SIMULATION - A method of computational fluid dynamic modelling of a subterranean region comprises: defining a computational domain by generating a geometrical model of a subterranean region comprising a wellbore and a surrounding formation; associating knowledge of a physical property of the subterranean region with a computational parameter; and inputting the computational parameter into the computational domain. In one embodiment knowledge of permeability within the subterranean region is defined as a viscous resistance within the computational domain. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149142 | GEOLOGIC FEATURE SPLITTING - A method can include receiving information that defines a three-dimensional subterranean structure; splitting the three-dimensional subterranean structure into portions; generating convex hulls for the portions; and generating a discrete fracture network based at least in part on the convex hulls. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149143 | APPARATUS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PARALLEL POWER FLOW CALCULATION AND POWER SYSTEM SIMULATION - According to one aspect, an apparatus for computing a solution to a power flow problem for an electrical power system comprising a plurality of buses. The apparatus includes (a) at least one processor comprising a plurality of cores; and (b) memory coupled to the at least one processor for storing an admittance matrix for the power system, real power and reactive power for each bus, and an initial complex voltage for each bus; (c) wherein the at least one processor is configured to: (i) perform a Jacobi power flow calculation for each bus to determine the complex voltage for each bus, the Jacobi power flow calculation using the admittance matrix, the real power and reactive power for each bus, and the initial complex voltage for each bus as inputs, wherein at least two Jacobi power flow calculations are performed concurrently on the plurality of cores; (ii) calculate a power mismatch at each bus based on the complex voltages; and (iii) determine whether the Jacobi power flow calculations have converged based on the power mismatch and repeat (i) to (iii) if the Jacobi power flow calculations have not converged. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149144 | SIMULATING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY - An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a processor, a volatile memory device of an information handling device; and designating, using a processor, at least a portion of the volatile memory device as simulated non-volatile memory. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149145 | SIMULATION APPARATUS, SIMULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A simulation apparatus that performs parallel execution of multiple logical processes obtained by modeling a plurality of components included in a system to be simulated. The apparatus includes: (i) a condition generating unit configured to generate, on the basis of communication delays between the multiple logical processes, constraint conditions to be satisfied by initial time shifts given to the multiple logical processes and look-ahead times each to be permitted by a message sent from a logical process serving as a communication source to a logical process serving as a communication destination to permit look-ahead; and (ii) a solver unit configured to solve an optimization problem that satisfies the constraint conditions and minimizes overhead in communication of messages between the multiple logical processes, and obtain the initial time shifts of the multiple logical processes and the look-ahead times between the multiple logical processes. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149146 | SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERY OF AUDIO SIGNALS TO MOBILE DEVICES - The present disclosure is directed to an audio delivery system including an audio source, an audio conversion device, a wireless transmitter, and mobile devices. The audio source is configured to deliver raw audio output in a first format to the audio conversion device. The audio conversion device is configured to receive the raw audio output, parse the raw audio output into data packets, transmit the data packets to a network location for conversion into a second format, receive the converted data packets from the network location, and transmit the converted data packets over a wireless network. The wireless transmitter is configured to generate a wireless network in a localized area for transmission of the converted data packets to the mobile devices. The mobile devices are configured to receive instructions from a user, receive the converted data packets, and present the converted data packets to the user in the second format based on the user instructions. In one example, the second format includes an audible foreign language translation and/or a readable text foreign language translation. In another example, the second format includes a readable text original language translation. In even another example, the second format includes an enhanced audio frequency range. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149147 | LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT PROCESSING OF LOGS IN A LOG ANALYTICS SYSTEM - Log files include log file content, some of which (especially a non-runtime portion) is in human-readable language. Translation of log file content is accomplished by: (i) generating first log content in a first human-readable language using a first resource bundle related to data translation; and (ii) translating the first log content to second log content, which corresponds to the first log content but is in a second human-readable language, using the first resource bundle. The translated log content may have annotations and/or processing rules applied to it. The translation of the present invention can help to keep the translation accurate and uniform so that the translated log content may be more effectively used in various ways. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149148 | LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT PROCESSING OF LOGS IN A LOG ANALYTICS SYSTEM - Log files include log file content, some of which (especially a non-runtime portion) is in human-readable language. Translation of log file content is accomplished by: (i) generating first log content in a first human-readable language using a first resource bundle related to data translation; and (ii) translating the first log content to second log content, which corresponds to the first log content but is in a second human-readable language, using the first resource bundle. The translated log content may have annotations and/or processing rules applied to it. The translation of the present invention can help to keep the translation accurate and uniform so that the translated log content may be more effectively used in various ways. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149149 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATION - A system and method of improving a translation system are disclosed, in which the method may include presenting initial text in a source language and a corresponding translation text sequence in a target language, to a user on a computing device; prompting the user to propose alternative text for at least a portion of the translation text sequence; receiving proposed alternative translation text from the user; assigning a rating, by the user, to the proposed alternative translation text; and storing the received proposed translation text in a database. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149150 | MULTI-LINGUAL OUTPUT DEVICE - This application discloses A multi-lingual output device for output of transactional information for a given customer, the device that includes a data base for determining what transaction information needs to be outputted, the local language in which the information is to be outputted, and the preferred language of the customer in which the information is to be outputted; and, a local transaction subsystem in communication with said database, wherein said local transaction sub system includes input device receiving means for accepting an input device and output generating means for generating a signal to an output device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149151 | PROCEDURE FOR BUILDING A MAX-ARPA TABLE IN ORDER TO COMPUTE OPTIMISTIC BACK-OFFS IN A LANGUAGE MODEL - Each entry of an ARPA table for a modeled language includes an n-gram Az, an associated backoff value Az.p equal to the conditional probability p(z|A) that symbol z follows context A in the modeled language, and an associated backoff weight value Az.b for the context A. A method comprises: (1) computing and adding for each entry of the ARPA table in descending n-gram order an associated maximum backoff weight product value Az.m; (2) after performing operation (1), computing and adding for each entry of the ARPA table in descending n-gram order an associated max-backoff value Az.w=max | 2015-05-28 |
20150149152 | METHOD FOR COMBINING A QUERY AND A COMMUNICATION COMMAND IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method for processing a natural language input to a computerized system. The method parses the input to identify a query portion and a communication portion of the input. The system then determines an answer to the query portion, including identifying communication parameters from the communication portion. Upon determining the answer, the system prepares an answer to the communication and transmits that answer. If the answer requires information from a remote source, the system creates a subsidiary query to obtain that information and then submits the subsidiary query to the remote source. A response to the query is used to compose the answer to the query from the answer to the subsidiary query. If the system concludes that the query portion does not require information from a remote source, analyzing and answering the query locally. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149153 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND RECORDING THE SENTIMENT OF A MESSAGE, POSTING, OR OTHER ONLINE COMMUNICATION USING AN EXPLICIT SENTIMENT IDENTIFIER - In some embodiments, a user expresses his/her sentiment in a message, blog post, social media post, or other online communication and explicitly identifies that sentiment with a symbol (such as an asterisk). This explicitly identified sentiment is recorded in a database of individual and public opinions. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149154 | SEMANTIC PHRASE SUGGESTION ENGINE - A semantic phrase suggestion engine that provides term and sentence suggestions based on context-specific user groups. Knowledge domains within a semantic network may be automatically derived from user software applications, and each term within the knowledge domain includes meta-data about the terms, e.g., term type and an importance indicator. The indicators may be defined within the context of specific user groups and relate to how many times that group has used the term (e.g., in documents, emails, etc.) The semantic phrase suggestion engine may also include spelling conditions and grammar conditions, which can then provide phrase suggestions according to the conditions and importance indicators, specific to a user group. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149155 | Methods and Systems for Applications for Z-numbers - Specification covers new algorithms, methods, and systems for artificial intelligence, soft computing, and deep learning/recognition, e.g., image recognition (e.g., for action, gesture, emotion, expression, biometrics, fingerprint, facial, OCR (text), background, relationship, position, pattern, and object), large number of images (“Big Data”) analytics, machine learning, training schemes, crowd-sourcing (using experts or humans), feature space, clustering, classification, similarity measures, optimization, search engine, ranking, question-answering system, soft (fuzzy or unsharp) boundaries/impreciseness/ambiguities/fuzziness in language, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computing-with-Words (CWW), parsing, machine translation, sound and speech recognition, video search and analysis (e.g. tracking), image annotation, geometrical abstraction, image correction, semantic web, context analysis, data reliability (e.g., using Z-number (e.g., “About 45 minutes; Very sure”)), rules engine, control system, autonomous vehicle, self-diagnosis and self-repair robots, system diagnosis, medical diagnosis, biomedicine, data mining, event prediction, financial forecasting, economics, risk assessment, e-mail management, database management, indexing and join operation, memory management, and data compression. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149156 | SELECTIVE PHASE COMPENSATION IN HIGH BAND CODING - A method includes determining, at an encoder, phase adjustment parameters based on a high-band residual signal. The method also includes inserting the phase adjustment parameters into an encoded version of the audio signal to enable phase adjustment during reconstruction of the audio signal from the encoded version of the audio signal. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149157 | FREQUENCY DOMAIN GAIN SHAPE ESTIMATION - A method includes determining, at a speech encoder, frequency domain gain shape parameters. The frequency domain gain shape parameters are based on a second signal associated with an audio signal. The method further includes adjusting a first signal based on the frequency domain gain shape parameters. The first signal is associated with the audio signal. The method also includes inserting the frequency domain gain shape parameters into an encoded version of the audio signal to enable gain adjustment during reproduction of the audio signal from the encoded version of the audio signal. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149158 | Efficient Combined Harmonic Transposition - The present document relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), and to digital effect processors, e.g. so-called exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion adds brightness to the processed signal. In particular, a system configured to generate a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system may comprise an analysis filter bank ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150149159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT FOR ADJUSTING AUDIO QUALITY - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for processing audio signals. An example system configured to practice the method receives audio at a device to be transmitted to a remote speech processing system. The system analyzes one of noise conditions, need for an enhanced speech quality, and network load to yield an analysis. Based on the analysis, the system determines to bypass user-defined options for enhancing audio for speech processing. Then, based on the analysis, the system can modify an audio transmission parameter used to transmit the audio from the device to the remote speech processing system. The audio transmission parameter can be one of an amount of coding, a chosen codec, an amount of coding, or a number of audio channels, for example. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149160 | Method And Device For Dereverberation Of Single-Channel Speech - The present invention relates to a method and device for dereverberation of single-channel speech. The method includes the following steps of framing an input single channel speech signal, and processing the frame signals as follows according to a time sequence: performing short-time Fourier transform on a current frame to obtain a power spectrum and a phase spectrum of the current frame; selecting several frames previous to the current frame and having a distance from the current frame within a set duration range, and performing linear superposition on the power spectra of these frames to estimate the power spectrum of a late reflection sound of the current frame; removing the estimated power spectrum of the late reflection sound of the current frame from the power spectrum of the current frame by a spectral subtraction method to obtain the power spectra of a direct sound and an early reflection sound of the current frame; and performing inverse short-time Fourier transform on the power spectra of the direct sound and the early reflection sound of the current frame and the phase spectrum of the current frame together to obtain a signal of the current frame after dereverberation. The dereverberation method and device can solve the problem that the estimation of a transfer function of a reverberation environment or the estimation of reverberation time is difficult in the dereverberation of single-channel speech. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149161 | Method and Arrangement for Scalable Low-Complexity Coding/Decoding - In a quantization method for quantizing a received excitation signal in a communication system performing the steps of re-shuffling S | 2015-05-28 |
20150149162 | MULTI-CHANNEL SPEECH RECOGNITION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for performing per-channel automatic speech recognition. An example system configured to practice the method combines a first audio signal of a first speaker in a communication session and a second audio signal from a second speaker in the communication session as a first audio channel and a second audio channel. The system can recognize speech in the first audio channel of the recording using a first model associated with the first speaker, and recognize speech in the second audio channel of the recording using a second model associated with the second speaker, wherein the first model is different from the second model. The system can generate recognized speech as an output from the communication session. The system can identify the models based on identifiers of the speakers, such as a telephone number, an IP address, a customer number, or account number. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149163 | VOICE INPUT CORRECTION - An embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an audio receiver of an information handling device, voice input of a user; interpreting, using a processor, the voice input; thereafter receiving, at the audio receiver, repeated voice input of the user; identifying a correction using the repeated voice input; and correcting, using the processor, the voice input using the repeated voice input, wherein the corrective voice input does not include a predetermined voice command. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149164 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING VOICE - An apparatus and a method for recognizing a voice include a plurality of array microphones configured to have at least one microphone, and a seat controller configured to check a position of a seat provided in a vehicle. A microphone controller is configured to set a beam forming region based on the checked position of the seat and controls an array microphone so as to obtain sound source data from the set beam forming region. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149165 | Speaker Adaptation of Neural Network Acoustic Models Using I-Vectors - A method includes providing a deep neural network acoustic model, receiving audio data including one or more utterances of a speaker, extracting a plurality of speech recognition features from the one or more utterances of the speaker, creating a speaker identity vector for the speaker based on the extracted speech recognition features, and adapting the deep neural network acoustic model for automatic speech recognition using the extracted speech recognition features and the speaker identity vector. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149166 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SPEECH/NON-SPEECH SECTION - Provided is an apparatus for detecting a speech/non-speech section. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit which obtains inter-channel relation information of a stereo audio signal, a classification unit which classifies each element of the stereo audio signal into a center channel element and a surround element on the basis of the inter-channel relation information, a calculation unit which calculates an energy ratio value between a center channel signal composed of center channel elements and a surround channel signal composed of surround elements, for each frame, and an energy ratio value between the stereo audio signal and a mono signal generated on the basis of the stereo audio signal, and a judgment unit which determines a speech section and a non-speech section from the stereo audio signal by comparing the energy ratio values. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149167 | DYNAMIC SELECTION AMONG ACOUSTIC TRANSFORMS - Aspects of this disclosure are directed to accurately transforming speech data into one or more word strings that represent the speech data. A speech recognition device may receive the speech data from a user device and an indication of the user device. The speech recognition device may execute a speech recognition algorithm using one or more user and acoustic condition specific transforms that are specific to the user device and an acoustic condition of the speech data. The execution of the speech recognition algorithm may transform the speech data into one or more word strings that represent the speech data. The speech recognition device may estimate which one of the one or more word strings more accurately represents the received speech data. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149168 | VOICE-ENABLED DIALOG INTERACTION WITH WEB PAGES - Voice enabled dialog with web pages is provided. An Internet address of a web page is received including an area with which a user of a client device can specify information. The web page is loaded using the received Internet address of the web page. A task structure of the web page is then extracted. An abstract representation of the web is then generated. A dialog script, based on the abstract representation of the web page is then provided. Spoken information received from the user is converted into text and the converted text is inserted into the area. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MOBILE MULTIMODAL SPEECH HEARING AID - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for processing an utterance are disclosed. For example, the method captures the utterance made by a speaker, captures a video of the speaker making the utterance, sends the utterance and the video to a speech to text transcription device, receives a text representing the utterance from the speech to text transcription device, wherein the text is presented on a screen of a mobile endpoint device, and sends the utterance to a hearing aid device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149170 | NOTE PROMPT SYSTEM AND METHOD USED FOR INTELLIGENT GLASSES - A note prompt system and method used for intelligent glasses are disclosed, where the text content are detected and a reading information comprising the original content and note is acquired. When the original content includes the original content, the associated note is directed to be displayed on the glasses of the intelligent glasses, whereby achieving in the technical efficacy of promoting convenience of note prompt. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149171 | Contextual Audio Recording - During a conversation over the network, a microphone attachable to or included in a mobile computer system is used to input audio speech from the user of the computer system. The audio speech is processed into audio speech data. In the audio speech data, the processor monitors for a keyword previously defined by the user. Upon detecting the keyword in the audio speech data, a contextual portion of the audio speech data is extracted including the keyword. The contextual portion of the audio speech data may be converted to text and stored in memory of the computer system or on the network. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149172 | WORD CLOUD AUDIO NAVIGATION - The present invention is directed generally to linking a collection of words and/or phrases with locations in a video and/or audio stream where the words and/or phrases occur and/or associations of a collection of words and/or phrases with a call history. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149173 | Controlling Voice Composition in a Conference - Various embodiments enable a system, such as an audio conferencing system, to remove voices from an audio conference in which the removed voices are not desired. In at least some embodiments, an audio signal associated with the audio conference is analyzed and components which represent the individual voices within the audio conference are identified. Once the audio signal is processed in this manner to identify the individual voice components, a control element can be applied to filter out one or more of the individual components that correspond to undesired voices. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149174 | DIFFERENTIAL ACOUSTIC MODEL REPRESENTATION AND LINEAR TRANSFORM-BASED ADAPTATION FOR EFFICIENT USER PROFILE UPDATE TECHNIQUES IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - A computer-implemented method is described for speaker adaptation in automatic speech recognition. Speech recognition data from a particular speaker is used for adaptation of an initial speech recognition acoustic model to produce a speaker adapted acoustic model. A speaker dependent differential acoustic model is determined that represents differences between the initial speech recognition acoustic model and the speaker adapted acoustic model. In addition, an approach is also disclosed to estimate speaker-specific feature or model transforms over multiple sessions. This is achieved by updating the previously estimated transform using only adaptation statistics of the current session. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149175 | VOICE RECOGNITION TERMINAL, SERVER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SERVER, VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING VOICE RECOGNITION TERMINAL, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SERVER - A voice recognition terminal is provided to be able to communicate with a server capable of voice recognition for recognizing voice, and includes a voice input acceptance portion accepting voice input from a user, a voice recognition portion carrying out voice recognition of the voice input accepted, a response processing execution portion performing processing for responding to the user based on a result of voice recognition of the voice input accepted, and a communication portion transmitting the voice input accepted by the voice input acceptance portion to the server and receiving a result of voice recognition in the server. The response processing execution portion performs the processing for responding to the user based on the result of voice recognition determined as more suitable, of the result of voice recognition by the voice recognition portion and the result of voice recognition received from the server. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A CLASSIFIER FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for building classifiers in a semi-supervised or unsupervised way. An example system implementing the method can receive a human-generated map which identifies categories of transcriptions. Then the system can receive a set of machine transcriptions. The system can process each machine transcription in the set of machine transcriptions via a set of natural language understanding classifiers, to yield a machine map, the machine map including a set of classifications and a classification score for each machine transcription in the set of machine transcriptions. Then the system can generate silver annotated data by combining the human-generated map and the machine map. The algorithm can include different branches for when the machine transcription is available, when partial results are available, when no results are found for the machine transcription, and so forth. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149177 | Sharing Intents to Provide Virtual Assistance in a Multi-Person Dialog - A computing system is operable as virtual personal assistant (VPA) to understand relationships between different instances of natural language dialog expressed by different people in a multi-person conversational dialog session. The VPA can develop a common resource, a shared intent, which represents the VPA's semantic understanding of at least a portion of the multi-person dialog experience. The VPA can store and manipulate multiple shared intents, and can alternate between different shared intents as the multi-person conversation unfolds. With the shared intents, the computing system can generate useful action items and present the action items to one or more of the participants in the dialog session. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149178 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA-DRIVEN INTONATION GENERATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for text-to-speech processing having an improved intonation. The system first receives text to be converted to speech, the text having a first segment and a second segment. The system then compares the text to a database of stored utterances, identifying in the database a first utterance corresponding to the first segment and determining an intonation of the first utterance. When the database does not contain a second utterance corresponding to the second segment, the system generates the speech corresponding to the text by combining the first utterance with a generated second utterance corresponding to the second segment, the generated second utterance having the intonation matching, or based on, the first utterance. These actions lead to an improved, smoother, more human-like synthetic speech output from the system. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149179 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS IN AUDIBLE FORM BASED ON USER ENGAGEMENT WITH A USER DEVICE - Methods and systems are described herein for generating an audible presentation of a communication received from a remote server. A presentation of a media asset on a user equipment device is generated for a first user. A textual-based communication is received, at the user equipment device from the remote server. The textual-based communication is transmitted to the remote server by a second user and the remote server transmits the textual-based communication to the user equipment device responsive to determining that the second user is on a list of users associated with the first user. An engagement level of the first user with the user equipment device is determined. Responsive to determining that the engagement level does not exceed a threshold value, a presentation of the textual-based communication is generated in audible form. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149180 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and a control method of the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a memory configured to store event information; and a controller configured to retrieve at least one event information entered for the time between specified points from the memory, create a frame screen for displaying the retrieved at least one event information and a notepad for storing at least one keyword extracted from each of the retrieved at least one event information contained in the frame screen, and create a diary by interfacing the frame screen with the notepad. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149181 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VOICE SYNTHESIS - Method and system for generating audio signals ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150149182 | Sharing Intents to Provide Virtual Assistance in a Multi-Person Dialog - A computing system is operable as virtual personal assistant (VPA) to understand relationships between different instances of natural language dialog expressed by different people in a multi-person conversational dialog session. The VPA can develop a common resource, a shared intent, which represents the VPA's semantic understanding of at least a portion of the multi-person dialog experience. The VPA can store and manipulate multiple shared intents, and can alternate between different shared intents as the multi-person conversation unfolds. With the shared intents, the computing system can generate useful action items and present the action items to one or more of the participants in the dialog session. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149183 | Process and Associated System for Separating a Specified Component and an Audio Background Component from an Audio Mixture Signal - Processes are described herein for transforming an audio mixture signal data structure into a specified component data structure and a background component data structure. In the processes described herein, pitch differences between a guide signal and a dialogue component of an audio mixture signal are accounted for by explicit modeling. Processes described herein can involve obtaining an audio guide signal data structure that corresponds to a dubbing of the specified component, determining parametric spectrogram model data structures for spectrograms of the specified component and the background component, estimating parameters of the parametric spectrogram model data structures to produce data structures representing, a temporary specified signal and a temporary background signal, and filtering the audio mixture signal data structure using the data structures representing the temporary specified signal and the temporary background signal in order to produce data structures representing a specified audio signal and an audio background signal. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149184 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING AUDIO AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An image display apparatus, a method for driving an image display apparatus, a sound output apparatus and a method for driving a sound output apparatus, are provided. The image display apparatus comprising a signal separator configured to separate an audio signal and a video signal from an input image signal, an audio decoder configured to decode the audio signal, a sound outputter configured to output the decoded audio signal, a sound effect generator configured to generate a sound effect at a user's request, a communication interface configured to transmit the separated audio signal and the generated sound effect to a surrounding sound output apparatus, respectively, and a controller configured to control the communication interface to transmit the audio signal and the sound effect to the sound output apparatus, wherein the separated audio signal is transmitted when the sound output apparatus is connected. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149185 | AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE AND AUDIO CODING METHOD - An audio encoding device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: calculating a similarity in phase of a first channel signal and a second channel signal contained in a plurality of channels of an audio signal; and selecting, based on the similarity, a first output that outputs one of the first channel signal and the second channel signal, or a second output that outputs both of the first channel signal and the second channel signal. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149186 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a data processing method and system. The method includes obtaining network data and a sound wave synthesized with the network data by a terminal, the sound wave being obtained by performing an encoding conversion on resource data; and according to an operation performed by a user on the network data on the terminal, invoking an audio playback apparatus of the terminal to play the sound wave synthesized with the network data to terminals of one or more users nearby. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149187 | DECODER AND METHOD FOR MULTI-INSTANCE SPATIAL-AUDIO-OBJECT-CODING EMPLOYING A 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 three or more downmix channels, wherein the downmix signal encodes three or more audio object signals is provided. The decoder includes an input channel router and at least two channel processing units. Each channel processing unit of the at least two channel processing units is configured to generate one or more of at least two processed channels depending on side information and depending on one or more of the three or more downmix channels received by the channel processing unit from the input channel router. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149188 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF OBTAINING REIMBURSEMENTS FOR PATIENT TREATMENT - A method of selecting a dressing for treating a patient's malady includes providing a database of medical instrumentalities and medical instrumentality information corresponding to each medical instrumentality, the medical instrumentality information including an indication of whether the medical instrumentality is reimbursable. The method also includes observing a patient's malady, recording characteristics of the patient's malady, comparing the characteristics of the patient's malady to the database, displaying to a user a list of one or more medical instrumentalities usable for treating the malady, and an indication of whether the medical instrumentality is reimbursable. The method further includes selecting a medical instrumentality for treating the malady from the list. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149189 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING A HEALTHCARE DATA INTERFACE USING A PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for establishing a healthcare data interface for a healthcare provider associated with a practice management system, wherein the healthcare data interface is established between the practice management system and a healthcare trading partner to enable electronic transmission of data between the practice management system and the healthcare trading partner. The method comprises receiving a request from the healthcare provider to establish the healthcare data interface with the healthcare trading partner and prompting, via a user interface, the healthcare provider for configuration information, wherein the prompting is performed based, at least in part, on information associated with the healthcare trading partner stored by the practice management system. The method further comprises receiving the configuration information from the healthcare provider, and configuring the healthcare data interface for the healthcare provider based, at least in part, on the received configuration information. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149190 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE LOCKING MEDICAL EXAMS IN A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - Example systems, methods and machine readable storage media to facilitate locking medical exams in a healthcare system are disclosed herein. An example method for locking a medical exam in a workflow queue for a clinical user includes authenticating the clinical user during a user session. The example method also includes obtaining a user selection of the medical exam in the workflow queue during the user session. The example method also includes associating a permission level to a session user identifier associated with the user session. The example method also includes determining whether the permission level includes clearance to lock the medical exam, and, in response to determining that the permission level includes clearance to lock the medical exam, flagging the medical exam as read-only, wherein the flagged medical exam remains flagged after the clinical user ends the user session. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149191 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MATCHING LARGE-SCALE BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES - An ontology matching apparatus for large-scale biomedical ontologies according to the present invention is provided, and the ontology matching apparatus includes a preprocessing unit configured to classify received candidate ontologies into one or more ontology subsets to generate ontology subsets, a distribution processing unit configured to divide the generated ontology subsets by virtue of a distribution algorithm, apply a matching algorithm to the divided ontology subsets to generate matching threads, and deliver the generated matching threads to individual cores of participating nodes, and an aggregating unit configured to collect and sum matching results generated by the individual cores performing matching operations based on the matching threads to generate an ontology mapping. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149192 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO OPTIMIZE RADIOLOGY EXAM DISTRIBUTION - Example methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed to allocate a medical exam. An example method includes identifying an exam characteristic associated with the medical exam. The example method includes determining a plurality of allocation scores for a plurality of radiologists by comparing the exam characteristic to a radiologist characteristic for each of the plurality of radiologists. The example method includes determining one of the plurality of allocation scores with a highest value. The example method includes allocating the medical exam to one of the plurality of radiologists associated with the one of the plurality of allocation scores with the highest value. The example method includes marking the medical exam as allocated to the one of the plurality of radiologists associated with the one of the plurality of allocation scores with the highest value. The example method includes providing an indication that the medical exam is allocated via a graphical user interface. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149193 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WORKFLOW MODIFICATION THROUGH METRIC ANALYSIS - An example system to manage a radiologist workflow includes a first interface to monitor a distribution status of at least one medical exam. The medical exam is to be at least one of automatically allocated or assigned to an examiner work queue based on one or more rules. The example system includes a second interface to view at least one metric associated with distribution of the at least one medical exam and an assignment tool to be displayed via the first interface. The assignment tool is to facilitate assignment of the medical exam to an examiner work queue. The example system includes a rules viewer to be displayed via a third interface. The rules viewer is to facilitate configuration of the one or more rules based on the distribution status, the at least one metric, or the assignment. The rules viewer is to automatically update the one or more rules. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149194 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING MEDICAL BILLING - Systems and methods for providing medical information are provided in which a medical bill and line items summarized by the bill are received from a care provider. A revenue code in the bill and a subset of line items associated with it is identified. Respective line items are matched to corresponding generic description codes using a lookup table, thereby identifying generic codes for the line items. The generic codes are used to determine whether each line item is validly associated with the revenue code. A median charge for each line item is calculated based on historical charges by medical care providers in a relevant geographic region. A report is provided that provides, for each line item, the actual charge for the item from the bill, the median charge for the line item, and any flag indicating that the line item is potentially not validly associated with the corresponding revenue code. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149195 | WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE RADIOGRAPHIC STUDY SESSION AND INTERFACE - An interactive radiographic study session and method of invoking the session are disclosed. The radiographic study includes one or more radiographic images viewed on a computer monitor or other display-type device. The interactive radiographic study session enables a radiologist to share a view of the radiographic study with one or more clinicians. The clinician requests the session by selecting the radiologist or by selecting a patient. The interface may employ a web-based mechanism, or another means to provide a computer-system-based connection between the clinician and the radiologist. An interactive interface includes real-time video of each party to the session, and allows the radiologist to give control of his mouse to the clinician, enhancing communication between them during viewing of the radiographic images. The interface also includes tools to enable scrolling through the report, enlargement and marking of radiographic images, and other features. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149196 | CLOUD-BASED CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE - An example method includes monitoring healthcare information employed by a local information system of a first healthcare entity via an edge device located at a facility of the first healthcare entity and in communication with a local information system. The edge device is to implement a local cloud system. The local cloud system is to be accessible by only the first healthcare entity and healthcare entities affiliated with the first healthcare entity. The example method also includes determining if the healthcare information has a first characteristic via the edge device, determining if the healthcare information has a second characteristic via the edge device, and automatically uploading the healthcare information onto the local cloud system if the healthcare information has the first characteristic. The example method also includes automatically uploading the healthcare information onto a remote cloud system if the healthcare information has the second characteristic. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149197 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL BILLING SYSTEMS TO SUBMIT TRANSACTIONS FOR SERVICES COVERED UNDER PHARMACY BENEFITS - A system and method for medical offices and other non-pharmacy providers using management systems or other billing systems based on the ASC X12 transaction standards to perform eligibility transactions, perform benefit predetermination transactions and to submit claims to pharmacy insurance companies or their pharmacy benefit managers that must receive the transactions as real-time transactions based on the NCPDP transaction standards are disclosed. Same medical offices and non-pharmacy providers can receive electronic remittance advice files from pharmacy insurance companies or their pharmacy benefit managers that contain data formatted and using identifiers that relate to the initial ASC X12 claims submitted. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149198 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SYNCHRONIZE DRUG INFORMATION - Devices of a networked system for transmitting communications at a healthcare institution, including drug labeling and formulary management devices, can be updated by supplementing received drug information with drug information from a similar drug already in the formulary. The received drug information is compared with other drugs already in the formulary and a match quality value is determined based on this comparison. A selection of a matching or similar drug is made based on the determined match quality value. The received drug information and drug information from the selected matching or similar drug can be combined to update the formulary with all of the desired information. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149199 | INTEGRATED POINT OF CARE AND HOME MEDICATION DELIVERY METHOD - A method for supplying a prescribed medication to a patient. A medication prescription order and information on a patient is sent by an authorized person in a medical office to a PPC for verification of insurance and billing information. Alternatively, the information may be sent to a PDU in the medical office. Upon verification of the insurance and billing information, the PPC or PDU sends an access code to an authorized person in the medical office. Upon receipt of the access code, the authorized person enters it in the PDU to obtain a temporary supply of the prescribed medication for the patient. The PDU sends an order for the prescribed medication to the PPC. The PPC fills the order and ships the prescribed medication to a patient's location to arrive before the patient has used all of the temporary supply of the prescribed medication. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149200 | Systems and Methods for Providing Customized Therapeutic Presentations - Systems and methods are provided for providing a personalized therapeutic presentation. A system includes a treatment presentation data store configured to store one or more data structures associated with a personalized therapeutic presentation for a client, where the one or more data structures include client biographic data, client symptom data, client goal data, and media data. A treatment generation engine is configured to generate a treatment presentation for the client based on data stored in the treatment presentation data store, wherein the treatment presentation is designed to treat a symptom identified by the client symptom data to achieve a goal identified by the client goal data, where the treatment presentation comprises a sequential presentation of media identified by the media data that is selected to treat the symptom to achieve the goal. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE ENCOUNTER AND STATUS ASSESSMENT USING PARALLEL DATA AND VOICE COMMUNICATION PATHS - A system and method for providing remote encounter and status assessment, such as a health care encounter for remote patients is provided. The system includes a patient's mobile device and a health care provider's mobile device, both coupled to a network for providing voice and data transfer therebetween. A body parameter measuring device is coupleable to the patient's mobile device and capable of generating data in response to measuring one or more body parameters. The method includes coupling the body parameter measuring device to the patient's mobile device and establishing a voice communication path with the health care provider's mobile device. Concurrently therewith, the patient's mobile device establishes a data communication path with the health care provider's mobile device to provide the data from the body parameter measuring device to the health care provider's mobile device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149202 | Medical Advice Via The Internet - An Internet site provides medical advice to users. Accurate data collection and a summary of medical information is constructed by using a combination of Virtual Resources, pre-determined questions/questioning provided by physician moderators, and confirmatory patient data to provide a differential diagnosis based on a statistical likelihood of diagnosis as determined by the present system. Each online interaction will be patient specific (unique) as each patient has a unique set of issues surrounding their medical problem/condition for which the system provides the pre-determined questions. The system will calculate the statistical likelihood of diagnosis using a logic platform database. The logic of the program will improve over time because its interviewing skills will improve as it learns as lines of pre-determined questioning based on a visual pattern recognition tool as well as confirmatory data. The system will learn from its patients and that data will be reviewed and organized by physician moderators. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149203 | MEDICAL EVENT TRACKING SYSTEM - A medical event tracking system includes memory which stores instructions for detecting new records in a personal health record of a single individual, identifying one of the new records that refers to an event for which an action is to be performed by at least one of the individual and a person acting on behalf of the individual, generating a candidate calendar entry for the identified new record which proposes a time for the action to be performed by the at least one of the individual and the person acting on behalf of the individual, providing for receiving validation of the candidate calendar entry, and providing for sending the validated candidate calendar entry to a personal electronic calendar of at least one of the individual and the person acting on behalf of the individual. A processor in communication with the memory executes the instructions. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149204 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING MEDICAL DATA WITH TRANSACTION DATA WHILE MAINTAINING CONSUMER PRIVACY - A method for linking medical data to transaction history includes: storing, in a database, a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a plurality of consumer characteristics and a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer; receiving, by a receiving device, a medical profile, wherein the medical profile includes medical data associated with a specific consumer and a plurality of demographic characteristics associated with the specific consumer; identifying, by a processing device, at least one consumer profile of the plurality of consumer profiles where at least a predefined number of the included plurality of consumer characteristics correspond to the plurality of demographic characteristics; and associating, in the database, each of the identified at least one consumer profile with the medical data included in the received medical profile. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149205 | INTEGRATED CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Integrated clinical decision supporting system and method are provided. The system includes a CDSS application terminal configured to consume a user's clinical information including medical data, social media data, and sensor measuring data, and transmit the collected user's clinical information, and an integrated clinical decision supporting apparatus configured to convert the user's clinical information received from the CDSS application terminal into a predetermined standard format, and generate a medical recommendation based on the converted user's clinical information and a previously stored clinical rule. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149206 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT RADIOLOGY WORK ALLOCATION - An example system to distribute a medical exam to an examiner includes a first interface to display a medical exam identifier associated with a medical exam stored in a patient record database and an examiner availability indicator to be displayed via the first interface. The examiner availability indicator is to be updated via a second interface. The example system includes an exam allocator to automatically allocate the medical exam to the examiner and an assignment tool to be displayed to a user via the first interface and to facilitate assignment of the allocated exam to the examiner. At least one of the exam allocator or the assignment tool is to be communicatively associated with the examiner availability indicator. Upon assignment of the medical exam to the examiner, the medical exam identifier is displayed in an examiner work queue via the first interface, the second interface, and a third interface. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149207 | HEALTH INFORMATION PRESCRIPTION - Certain examples provide systems, method, and computer-readable media to facilitate a health information prescription and associated interaction. An example method includes generating, at a health provider system, a prescription for a patient including an information component, the information component instructing monitoring of patient data at a frequency using at least one of a device and an application. The example method includes transmitting the prescription from the health provider system to a patient health record. The example method includes configuring the at least one of a device and an application for the patient according to the information component of the prescription and the patient health record. The example method includes facilitating, at the patient health record, collection of the patient data via the at least one of a device and an application. The example method includes transmitting collected patient data from the patient health record to the health provider system. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149208 | SYSTEM FOR ANONYMIZING AND AGGREGATING PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION - A patient anonymizing system includes a plurality of hashing appliances and data sources. Each appliance receives medical records containing at least confidential protected health information (PHI). A salt value is appended to each confidential PHI, and a hash is generated, which replaces the confidential PHI to generate an anonymized record. A master patient index server aggregates the anonymized records. A vector and cluster matching engine determines if the anonymized record matches a unique patient identifier corresponding to a second anonymized record. A comparison vector is generated by comparing hash values of the confidential PHI with hash values in the second anonymized record, and is crossed with a confidence vector having weights based on match conditions. This produces a match confidence level, which is compared to a threshold. If the threshold is met, the anonymized record is mapped to the unique patient identifier associated with the second record. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149209 | REMOTE/LOCAL REFERENCE SHARING AND RESOLUTION - Certain examples provide systems, methods, and apparatus for decentralized cross-enterprise interaction between clinical systems. An example method includes receiving, from a user at a first clinical information system in a first enterprise, a request for content. The example method includes identifying a target system for the requested content. The example method includes authenticating the user at the first clinical information system in the first enterprise. The example method includes, if the user is authenticated, verifying authorization of the user to access the requested content at the target system. The example method includes, if the user is authorized, facilitating access to the requested content via the target system. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149210 | CLOUD-BASED CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE - An example method includes storing healthcare information related to a patient on the cloud-based clinical information system and determining if a first local information system of a first healthcare entity includes a first existing patient record associated with the patient. The example method also includes communicating a first command from the cloud-based clinical information system to an edge device located at a facility associated with the first healthcare entity and in communication with the first local information system. The edge device is to automatically attach a first portion of the healthcare information to the first existing patient record if the first local information system includes the first existing patient record or automatically generate a first new patient record to be populated by the first portion of the healthcare information if the first local information system does not include the first existing patient record based on the first command. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149211 | CLOUD-BASED CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE - An example method includes receiving patient information in a cloud-based clinical information system from a first healthcare entity registered with the cloud-based clinical information system as a first entity type of a plurality of hierarchically organized entity types. The example method also includes storing a contractual agreement between the first healthcare entity and a second healthcare entity in the cloud-based clinical information system. The second healthcare entity is registered with the cloud-based clinical information as a second entity type of the plurality of entity types. The example method further includes enabling the second healthcare entity to access the patient information from the cloud-based clinical information system based on first access rules for the second healthcare entity. The first access rules are based on the contractual agreement, the second healthcare entity being the second entity type, and a selection input by the first healthcare entity via the cloud-based clinical information system. | 2015-05-28 |
20150149212 | PATIENT INFORMATION INTERFACE - Examples of the present disclosure may include methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions. An example method for providing a patient information interface can include accessing patient health record (PHR) information for a particular patient, and referencing medical care guideline information. A medical process associated with the particular patient is determined based on the PHR information and medical care guideline information, and context information associated with the particular patient and/or a healthcare system is received in a medical process-aware manner to a context model implemented on a computing system, including clinical, logistical and operational information. Context aware information is presented, via an output device of the computing system based on the determined medical process and context information. | 2015-05-28 |