23rd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130144597 | SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION OF OPEN DOMAIN LECTURES AND SPEECHES - Speech translation systems and methods for simultaneously translating speech between first and second speakers, wherein the first speaker speaks in a first language and the second speaker speaks in a second language that is different from the first language. The speech translation system may comprise a resegmentation unit that merge at least two partial hypotheses and resegments the merged partial hypotheses into a first-language translatable segment, wherein a segment boundary for the first-language translatable segment is determined based on sound from the second speaker. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144598 | TRANSLATION DEVICE, TRANSLATION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A translation device includes a text obtaining section for obtaining a text of an original document written in a first language, a translation word obtaining section for obtaining translation words of a second language for each of words or collocations included in the text obtained by the text obtaining section, a decision section for deciding whether or not each of the words or the collocations is to be translated by comparing characters forming the words or the collocations with characters forming the translation words obtained by the translation word obtaining section, and an output section for outputting translation words of the words or the collocations based on a decision made by the decision section. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144599 | Message Translations - Systems for translating text messages in an instant messaging system comprise a translation engine for translating text messages into a preferred language of a recipient of the text messages. The systems are preferably configured to send and receive the text messages and to determine whether the text messages that are received in a source language are in the preferred language of the recipients so that the text messages are displayed in the preferred language of the recipients of the text messages. Other systems and methods are also provided. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144600 | ADAPTIVE PATTERN LEARNING FOR BILINGUAL DATA MINING - Embodiments for the adaptive learning of translation layout patterns to mine bilingual data are disclosed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the adaptive learning of patterns to mine bilingual data includes processing a bilingual web page into a plurality bilingual snippet pairs. The embodiment also includes determining one or more best fit candidate patterns based on the plurality of translation snippets. The embodiment additionally includes mining one or more translation pairs from the bilingual web page using the one or more best fit candidate patterns. The translation pairs are further stored in a data storage. The one or more translation pairs including at least one of a term pair, a phrase pair, or a sentence pair. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144601 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SELECTABLE LANGUAGE INDICATOR FOR LANGUAGE SELECTION AND METHOD THEREFOR - A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting a selection of a language, detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, outputting at least a plurality of the language objects that corresponds to the ambiguous input, outputting an indicator which one of the method input languages is currently employed by the disambiguation function, and enabling an alternate one of the input language methods to be selected in response to a selection of the indicator in lieu of one of the plurality of language objects. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144602 | Quantitative Type Data Analyzing Device and Method for Quantitatively Analyzing Data - A method for quantitatively analyzing data is applied to a computer system for determining whether a document under test is sensitive. The method obtains sample message from the computer system, partitions content of the sample message to derive at least one original paragraph. The method then partitions the original paragraph to derive original sentences and to derive a plurality of original sentence characteristics from the original sentences. After that, the method produces the feature vector according to the derived sentence characteristics. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144603 | ENHANCED VOICE CONFERENCING WITH HISTORY - Techniques for ability enhancement are described. Some embodiments provide an ability enhancement facilitator system (“AEFS”) configured to enhance voice conferencing among multiple speakers. Some embodiments of the AEFS enhance voice conferencing by recording and presenting voice conference history information based on speaker-related information. The AEFS receives data that represents utterances of multiple speakers who are engaging in a voice conference with one another. The AEFS then determines speaker-related information, such as by identifying a current speaker, locating an information item (e.g., an email message, document) associated with the speaker, or the like. The AEFS records conference history information (e.g., a transcript) based on the determined speaker-related information. The AEFS then informs a user of the conference history information, such as by presenting a transcript of the voice conference and/or related information items on a display of a conferencing device associated with the user. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144604 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING ATTRIBUTES FROM TEXT CONTENT - Systems and method for extracting attributes from text content are described. Example embodiments may include a computer implemented method for extracting attributes from text data, wherein the text data is obtained from at least one information source. As described, the implementation may include receiving, from a user, an address for the at least one information source and an attribute name, creating a tagged information file by associating a part of speech tag to text data obtained from the at least one information source, identifying a location of the attribute name in the tagged information file using an approximate text matching technique and determining at least one attribute descriptor from the tagged information file wherein the tagged information file is parsed based on a part of speech tag associated with the attribute name to determine a conclusion of the attribute descriptor. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144605 | Text Mining Analysis and Output System - A natural language authoring system that organizes technical, financial, legal and market information into Point of View specific analytical, visual and narrative decision-support content. The expert system transforms a user's point of view into a tailored narrative and/or visualization report. Expert rules embed interactive advertising, such as affiliate URL links, into analytical, visual and narrative and statistical content. The rules may be modified by one or more users, thereby capturing knowledge as the rules are utilized by users of the system. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144606 | System and Method for Using Data and Derived Features to Automatically Generate a Narrative Story - A system and method for automatically generating a narrative story receives data and information pertaining to a domain event. The received data and information and/or one or more derived features are then used to identify a plurality of angles for the narrative story. The plurality of angles is then filtered, for example through use of parameters that specify a focus for the narrative story, length of the narrative story, etc. Points associated with the filtered plurality of angles are then assembled and the narrative story is rendered using the filtered plurality of angles and the assembled points. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144607 | CHARACTER-BASED AUTOMATED TEXT SUMMARIZATION - Methods, devices, systems and tools are presented that allow the summarization of text, audio, and audiovisual presentations, such as movies, into less lengthy forms. High-content media files are shortened in a manner that preserves important details, by splitting the files into segments, rating the segments, and reassembling preferred segments into a final abridged piece. Summarization of media can be customized by user selection of criteria, and opens new possibilities for delivering entertainment, news, and information in the form of dense, information-rich content that can be viewed by means of broadcast or cable distribution, “on-demand” distribution, internet and cell phone digital video streaming, or can be downloaded onto an iPod™ and other portable video playback devices. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144608 | Incorporation of Variables Into Textual Content - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for incorporating variable values into textual content. In one embodiment, an abstract phrase including a text phrase and a variable at a particular position in the text phrase is received. The abstract phrase may include multiple variables. A text value for the variable is received. The text phrase of the abstract phrase is combined with the text value according to the particular position of the variable. An integration rule is applied at a boundary of the text phrase of the abstract phrase and the text value, where the integration rule is based on a language rule. The integration rule modifies a portion of the text phrase of the abstract phrase or a portion of the text value to produce an integrated phrase. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144609 | TEXT PROCESSING SYSTEM, TEXT PROCESSING METHOD, AND TEXT PROCESSING PROGRAM - Provided is a text processing system capable of avoiding declining processing efficiency in analyses of text that does not contain breaks. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144610 | ACTION GENERATION BASED ON VOICE DATA - An automated technique is disclosed for processing audio data and generating one or more actions in response thereto. In particular embodiments, the audio data can be obtained during a phone conversation and post-call actions can be provided to the user with contextually relevant entry points for completion by an associated application. Audio transcription services available on a remote server can be leveraged. The entry points can be generated based on keyword recognition in the transcription and passed to the application in the form of parameters. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144611 | CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, CODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD - A coding device includes: a pitch contour detection unit which detects a pitch contour of an input audio signal; a dynamic time warping unit which determines the number of pitch nodes based on the pitch contour and generates a first time warping parameter including information indicating the determined number of pitch nodes, a pitch change position, and a pitch change ratio; a first encoder which codes the first time warping parameter; a time warping unit which corrects pitch, using the information obtained from the first time warping parameter, to approximate the pitches of the number of pitch nodes to a predetermined reference value; a second encoder which codes the input audio signal at the corrected pitch; and a multiplexer which multiplexes the coded time warping parameter and the coded audio signal to generate a bitstream. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144612 | Pitch Period Segmentation of Speech Signals - A method for automatic segmentation of pitch periods of speech waveforms takes a speech waveform, a corresponding fundamental frequency contour of the speech waveform, that can be computed by some standard fundamental frequency detection algorithm, and optionally the voicing information of the speech waveform, that can be computed by some standard voicing detection algorithm, as inputs and calculates the corresponding pitch period boundaries of the speech waveform as outputs by iteratively •calculating the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of a speech segment having a length of approximately two periods, the period being calculated as the inverse of the mean fundamental frequency associated with these speech segments, •placing the pitch period boundary either at the position where the phase of the third FFT coefficient is −180 degrees, or at the position where the correlation coefficient of two speech segments shifted within the two period long analysis frame maximizes, or at a position calculated as a combination of both measures stated above, and repeatedly shifting the analysis frame one period length further until the end of the speech waveform is reached. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144613 | Half-Rate Vocoder - Encoding a sequence of digital speech samples into a bit stream includes dividing the digital speech samples into one or more frames, computing model parameters for a frame, and quantizing the model parameters to produce pitch bits conveying pitch information, voicing bits conveying voicing information, and gain bits conveying signal level information. One or more of the pitch bits are combined with one or more of the voicing bits and one or more of the gain bits to create a first parameter codeword that is encoded with an error control code to produce a first FEC codeword that is included in a bit stream for the frame. The process may be reversed to decode the bit stream. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144614 | Bandwidth Extender - An apparatus for extending the bandwidth of an audio signal, the apparatus being configured to: generate an excitation signal from an audio signal, wherein in the audio signal comprises a plurality of frequency components; extract a feature vector from the audio signal, wherein the feature vector comprises at least one frequency domain component feature and at least one time domain component feature; determine at least one spectral shape parameter from the feature vector, wherein the at least one spectral shape parameter corresponds to a sub band signal comprising frequency components which belong to a further plurality of frequency components; and generate the sub band signal by filtering the excitation signal through a filter bank and weighting the filtered excitation signal with the at least one spectral shape parameter. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144615 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL BASED ON AN ESTIMATED LOUDNESS - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code is configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to determine a loudness estimate of a first audio signal, generate a parameter dependent on the loudness estimate; and control the first audio signal dependent on the parameter. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE-MEDIATED HUMAN-HUMAN CONVERSATION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing speech. A system configured to practice the method monitors user utterances to generate a conversation context. Then the system receives a current user utterance independent of non-natural language input intended to trigger speech processing. The system compares the current user utterance to the conversation context to generate a context similarity score, and if the context similarity score is above a threshold, incorporates the current user utterance into the conversation context. If the context similarity score is below the threshold, the system discards the current user utterance. The system can compare the current user utterance to the conversation context based on an n-gram distribution, a perplexity score, and a perplexity threshold. Alternately, the system can use a task model to compare the current user utterance to the conversation context. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144617 | BACKGROUND NOISE CANCELLING DEVICE AND METHOD - A background noise cancelling device for removing a background noise from an input signal in which the background noise is mixed in a voice signal to produce an output signal includes: storage a unit for preliminarily storing a predictable background noise, which is the background noise, as a stored background noise in a state in which a synchronization signal is superimposed on the predictable background noise; an estimation unit for reading the stored background noise from the storage unit and for correlating the read stored background noise and the input signal to establish synchronization by using the synchronization signal and to produce a predicted noise; and a subtracting unit for removing the predicted noise from the input signal to produce the voice signal obtained as a result of the removal. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144618 | METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - A disclosed embodiment provides a speech recognition method to be performed by an electronic device. The method includes: collecting user-specific information that is specific to a user through the user's usage of the electronic device; recording an utterance made by the user; letting a remote server generate a remote speech recognition result for the recorded utterance; generating rescoring information for the recorded utterance based on the collected user-specific information; and letting the remote speech recognition result rescored based on the rescoring information. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144619 | ENHANCED VOICE CONFERENCING - Techniques for ability enhancement are described. Some embodiments provide an ability enhancement facilitator system (“AEFS”) configured to enhance voice conferencing among multiple speakers. In one embodiment, the AEFS receives data that represents utterances of multiple speakers who are engaging in a voice conference with one another. The AEFS then determines speaker-related information, such as by identifying a current speaker, locating an information item (e.g., an email message, document) associated with the speaker, or the like. The AEFS then informs a user of the speaker-related information, such as by presenting the speaker-related information on a display of a conferencing device associated with the user. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144620 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM FOR VERIFYING THE AUTHENTICITY OF A WEBSITE USING A RELIABLE TELECOMMUNICATION CHANNEL AND PRE-LOGIN MESSAGE - Various embodiments of the present invention for validating the authenticity of a website are provided. An example of a method according to the present invention comprises providing a website having an artifact, receiving a communication from a user, at a service provider, for validating the website associated with a service provider, inquiring from the user a description of the artifact comparing the artifact on the website with the description of the artifact from the user and generating a indication to the user based upon the comparing. The communication is over a first communication channel and the website is accessed over a second communication channel. The first communication channel is different than the second. The artifact can be displayed after a user session is identified. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144621 | Systems and Methods for Assessment of Non-Native Spontaneous Speech - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for assessing non-native spontaneous speech pronunciation. Speech recognition on digitized speech is performed using a non-native acoustic model trained with non-native speech to generate word hypotheses for the digitized speech. Time alignment is performed between the digitized speech and the word hypotheses using a reference acoustic model trained with native-quality speech. Statistics are calculated regarding individual words and phonemes in the word hypotheses based on the alignment. A plurality of features for use in assessing pronunciation of the speech are calculated based on the statistics, an assessment score is calculated based on one or more of the calculated features, and the assessment score is stored in a computer-readable memory. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144622 | SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE AND SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD - A speech processing device which can accurately extract a conversation group from among a plurality of speakers, even when a conversation group formed of three or more people is present. This device ( | 2013-06-06 |
20130144623 | VISUAL PRESENTATION OF SPEAKER-RELATED INFORMATION - Techniques for ability enhancement are described. Some embodiments provide an ability enhancement facilitator system (“AEFS”) configured to determine and present speaker-related information based on speaker utterances. In one embodiment, the AEFS receives data that represents an utterance of a speaker received by a hearing device of the user, such as a hearing aid, smart phone, media player/device, or the like. The AEFS identifies the speaker based on the received data, such as by performing speaker recognition. The AEFS determines speaker-related information associated with the identified speaker, such as by determining an identifier (e.g., name or title) of the speaker, by locating an information item (e.g., an email message, document) associated with the speaker, or the like. The AEFS then informs the user of the speaker-related information, such as by presenting the speaker-related information on a display of the hearing device or some other device accessible to the user. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW-LATENCY WEB-BASED TEXT-TO-SPEECH WITHOUT PLUGINS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for reducing latency in web-browsing TTS systems without the use of a plug-in or Flash® module. A system configured according to the disclosed methods allows the browser to send prosodically meaningful sections of text to a web server. A TTS server then converts intonational phrases of the text into audio and responds to the browser with the audio file. The system saves the audio file in a cache, with the file indexed by a unique identifier. As the system continues converting text into speech, when identical text appears the system uses the cached audio corresponding to the identical text without the need for re-synthesis via the TTS server. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144625 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS DOCUMENT NARRATION - Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text in multiple different voices. In some aspects, systems and methods described herein can include receiving a user-based selection of a first portion of words in a document where the document has a pre-associated first voice model and overwriting the association of the first voice model, by the one or more computers, with a second voice model for the first portion of words. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144626 | RAP MUSIC GENERATION - The preferred embodiments of this invention convert common human speeches into rap music. Computer programs change the timing intervals, amplitudes, and/or frequencies of the sound signals of a common speech to follow rap music beats. The resulting rap music also can overlap with background music and/or video images to achieve better effects. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144627 | VOICE CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR STARTING ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A control circuit employed in an electronic device includes a microphone, a level conversion circuit, and a voice processing circuit. The voice processing circuit includes a voice operated switch connected between the microphone and the level conversion circuit. The microphone picks up voice commands, the voice operated switch receives the voice commands from the microphone, and outputs a high voltage signal when a volume of the voice commands is greater than or equal to a predetermined volume threshold or is within a predetermined volume range, the level conversion circuit converts the high voltage signal into a low voltage signal for turning on the electronic device. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144628 | VOICE INTERFACE TO NFC APPLICATIONS - Technologies for transferring Near Field Communications information on a computing device include storing information corresponding to services in a database on the computing device, receiving a voice input corresponding to a name of a requested service, and retrieving the information corresponding to the requested service from the database. Such technologies may also include loading the retrieved information corresponding to the requested service into a Near Field Communications tag emulated by the computing device and transferring the retrieved information to a portable computing device in response to the Near Field Communications tag being touched by a Near Field Communications reader of the portable computing device. The information corresponding to the requested service stored in the database, retrieved from the database, loaded into the Near Field Communications tag, and/or transferred to the portable computing device may include a Universal Resource Identifier and content-specific keywords corresponding to the requested service. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144629 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MULTIMODAL SPEECH AND GESTURE INTERACTION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing multimodal input. A system configured to practice the method continuously monitors an audio stream associated with a gesture input stream, and detects a speech event in the audio stream. Then the system identifies a temporal window associated with a time of the speech event, and analyzes data from the gesture input stream within the temporal window to identify a gesture event. The system processes the speech event and the gesture event to produce a multimodal command. The gesture in the gesture input stream can be directed to a display, but is remote from the display. The system can analyze the data from the gesture input stream by calculating an average of gesture coordinates within the temporal window. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144630 | MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO ENCODING AND DECODING - An audio encoder and decoder use architectures and techniques that improve the efficiency of multi-channel audio coding and decoding. The described strategies include various techniques and tools, which can be used in combination or independently. For example, an audio encoder performs a pre-processing multi-channel transform on multi-channel audio data, varying the transform so as to control quality. The encoder groups multiple windows from different channels into one or more tiles and outputs tile configuration information, which allows the encoder to isolate transients that appear in a particular channel with small windows, but use large windows in other channels. Using a variety of techniques, the encoder performs flexible multi-channel transforms that effectively take advantage of inter-channel correlation. An audio decoder performs corresponding processing and decoding. In addition, the decoder performs a post-processing multi-channel transform for any of multiple different purposes. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144631 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An audio signal processing apparatus that processes a bit stream generated by coding an audio signal on a frame-by-frame basis, the bit stream including, for each frame, coded data representing the audio signal, additional data and attribute information, the audio signal processing apparatus including a decoding unit configured to decode the coded data to generate a decoded signal, a processing unit configured to process the decoded signal, a detection unit configured to detect whether or not there has been a change in the attribute information, and a storage unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to, when the change is not detected, process the decoded signal by using at least two pieces of additional data stored, and when the change is detected, process the decoded signal by using only either additional data before detection of the change or additional data after detection of the change. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144632 | FRAME ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND AUDIO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A frame error concealment method is provided that includes predicting a parameter by performing a regression analysis on a group basis for a plurality of groups formed from a first plurality of bands forming an error frame and concealing an error in the error frame by using the parameter predicted on a group basis. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144633 | ENFORCEMENT AND ASSIGNMENT OF USAGE RIGHTS - Systems and methods are disclosed that assign and/or enforce usage rights for a software application. Further, the systems and methods assign and/or enforce usage rights for a software application with one or more users by decoupling the identity of the person who purchases the application from the actual users of the application. Additionally, the systems and methods provide for centralized built-in user assignment with support for multiple applications. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144634 | METHOD OF TRACKING AND RETRIEVING PERSONALTY - A system for the tracking and recovery of personal property, including the establishment of a system administrator and the establishment of a business relationship between said system administrator and a client. The system administrator providing to the client in exchange for a fee, a dedicated code, along with a toll free telephone number and a web address to permit a finder of the lost property to communicate its finding to the system administrator. The system administrator then providing instructions for the recovery of the property to the finder, resulting in the ultimate return of the property to the client without ever disclosing any personal information regarding the client or the finder. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144635 | PROVIDING SURVEYS TO CARE PROVIDERS - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for providing surveys to care providers. In one embodiment, health-related data can be used to trigger generating and providing surveys regarding medications and products to care providers. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144636 | Method and System for Predicting Adverse Drug Reactions Using BioAssay Data - An embodiment of the present invention uses logistic regression models that correlate post-marketing ADRs with screening data from the PubChem BioAssay database. These models of the present invention analyze ADRs at the level of organ systems, the System Organ Classes (SOCs). In testing to evaluate an embodiment of the present invention, nine of 19 SOCs under consideration were found to be significantly correlated with pre-clinical screening data. For six of eight established drugs for which SOC-specific adversities could be retropredicted, prior knowledge was found that support these predictions. SOC-specific adversities were then predicted for three unapproved or recently introduced drugs. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144637 | NOTIFICATION SERVICES FOR PATIENTS - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for providing at least one notification to a patient. In one embodiment, health-related data/information may be used to identify a patient that satisfies one or more business rules. Notifications to the patient's mobile device can then be provided based on location data. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144638 | System and Method for Managing Consumer Data - A service system for managing consumer data relating to services performed for healthcare consumers by hospitals or healthcare providers over a network. The system includes an insurer computer system that receives and analyzes claims information relating to the services performed. A survey mechanism receives assessment data from the consumers regarding the services received. A central database is in communication with the insurer computer system and the survey mechanism for receiving and storing data regarding the services. A central processor is in communication with the central database, with the central processor configured to analyze the data received from the central database for determining a satisfaction level for each of the consumers regarding the services received, including consumer perceptions of the medical outcome. The service system creates a transactional history of the services received by the consumers for access by the consumers and other authorized interested third parties, such as additional providers. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144639 | ASSESSING PRACTITIONER VALUE IN MULTI-PRACTITIONER SETTINGS - A plurality of actual outcome data points, including actual outcomes for a plurality of episodes of a process, are obtained for the process. A practitioner-independent baseline outcome is also obtained for the process. For each given one of the actual outcome data points, the given one of the actual outcome data points is equated to the practitioner entity-independent baseline outcome multiplied by a plurality of unknown participating practitioner entity outcome indices for each of a plurality of participating practitioner entities. Each of the participating practitioner entity outcome indices is raised to an exponent including a corresponding one of a plurality of unknown participating practitioner entity type indices, to obtain a plurality of equations. The plurality of equations arc solved to obtain estimated values of the unknown participating practitioner entity outcome indices and estimated values of the unknown participating practitioner entity type indices. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144640 | Automated System And Method For Electronic Verification, Precertification And Appeal For Medical Benefit Denials - The present invention is comprised of an automated system and method for electronic verification, pre-certification and appeal for medical benefit denials for providing automated medical processing to a medical or surgery center or other form of medical facility. The present invention is further comprised of a database software system to record, store and process large volumes of data. The present invention is further comprised of modules that automatically perform the processing task include preparations and automatically filing appeals for denials. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144641 | Method of Measuring Healthcare Outcomes - Computer-based methods and systems are presented for measuring the quality of healthcare of an individual and for measuring the quality of care of a healthcare provider. The methods comprise the steps of measuring a plurality of factors a first time and a second time, computing a first and second complexity score based on the Z-scores of the first-time and second-time measured values, and determining a quality based on the complexity scores, costs of treatment, and/or elapsed time of treatment. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144642 | Method of Predicting Healthcare Costs - Computer-based methods and systems are presented for determining an illness complexity score, which can be used to predict the likelihood of high-cost hospitalization and/or to predict the patient's healthcare reimbursement costs. The methods comprise the steps of measuring a plurality of factors of a population of individuals, determining an effect on the healthcare costs of the individuals and a weighting coefficient for each factor, identifying significant factors as complexity variables, and computing illness complexity scores for the population of individuals using the weighting coefficients and complexity variables. The population data may then be used to predict the healthcare costs of a patient by calculating the illness complexity score of the individual. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144643 | FRAME TRACER WEB BROWSER COMPONENT - An internet browser software component facilitates online submission of prescription eyeglass orders by receiving frame trace data sent to a computer by a frame tracer and embedding it in an order form prepared for submission over the internet. The browser software component may interpret data sent to any peripheral port on the computer, including serial (COM) ports, Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports, and Ethernet ports. The browser software component embeds the frame trace so that it is sent in the same logical packet as the rest of the prescription order. The browser software component may also create a graphical representation of the frame trace and display it in a graphical user interface containing the order form so that the prescription order may be easily reviewed for accuracy before submitting it to be processed. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144644 | CLINICAL TRIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method of managing a clinical trial where the clinical trial involves a follow-on biological (FOB) substance, the method comprising: receiving subject data at a computer system as the subject data becomes available, the subject data indicating effects of the administration of the FOB substance in the clinical trial; storing the subject data in a database; and making coded data electronically available to an authorised independent monitor, the coded data being based on the subject data and indicating effects of the administration of the FOB substance in the clinical trial but having subject-identifying information omitted therefrom, wherein the coded data is made available once the subject data is stored in the database. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144645 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND MEDIUM FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF VARIOUS AILMENTS ON HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE - The present invention relates to a system and method for assessing the impact of an ailment on a health related quality of life domain of a patient using a standardized common metric. The standardized common metric of the present invention enables the impact of various ailments to be compared. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144646 | Systems and Methods for Providing Patient Incentives for Complying with Medical Treatments - Systems and methods of providing an incentive to a patient for self-reported compliance may include receiving, by a processor, one or more inputs from a patient. The one or more inputs may correspond to a self-reporting regimen. The systems and methods may further include recording, by the processor, the one or more inputs to a database and analyzing, by the processor, the database to determine whether the one or more inputs meet or exceed a threshold. If the threshold is met or exceeded, the systems and methods may further include providing, by the processor, one or more incentives to the patient. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144647 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DENTAL ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING - Dental enterprise resource planning systems and method are provided. The systems and methods include a user interface, a data integration engine and interface, a third party application pool, and an application module pool. Data and functionality of the various applications are integrated and delivered through a single platform. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144648 | Novel Method and Apparatus For Repricing a Reimbursement Claim Against a Contract - A method for repricing a reimbursement claim under at least one contract is provided herein. The method may include a combination of steps such as: converting each contract into a series of contractual terms; converting a claim into a series of claim lines, containing claim codes, unit numbers and corresponding charges for the claim codes; comparing claim codes and contractual terms and identifying matches therebetween; determining any priority conditions associated to the matching contractual terms, and eliminate any matching contractual terms that are excluded by the priority conditions; calculating the reimbursement amount for the claim by determining the reimbursement charges for the non-excluded matching contractual terms; and determining and making any adjustments depending upon any discount terms for the entire reimbursement amount. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144649 | METHOD FOR COMPETITIVE PRESCRIPTION DRUG AND/OR BIDDING SERVICE PROVIDER SELECTION - Unfilled prescriptions are submitted to a registry comprising pre-qualified pharmacies for a “reverse auction” in which the pharmacies bid for the opportunity to fill the prescription. The pharmacies or a network of pharmacies on behalf of the pharmacies are allowed to bid based on price and/or offering ancillary services. The auction may also be used to bid on supplying specified pharmaceutical cognitive services. The method may also include obtaining cost comparisons with generic substitutes or similar alternative pharmaceutical products. The system may further comprise automatically requesting a review by the prescriber for a list of similar substitutes or prior-authorization for third-party payers. The winner of the reverse auction is selected by the customer. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144650 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRIORITIZING AND ADMINISTERING HEALTHCARE TO PATIENTS HAVING MULTIPLE INTEGRAL DIAGNOSES - A method of administering healthcare to patients with multiple integral diagnoses such that the clinical outcomes and health-related quality of life of said patients are improved while medical costs are minimized. A patient population is first identified. The population is then stratified into specific levels of intervention. Each individual patient is then assigned a Priority Care Nurse Manager who serves to establish communication between the patient, the patient's Primary Care Physician, and any healthcare providers. The most appropriate treatment plan is cooperatively developed and the patient receives treatment according to the plan. The most appropriate treatment may include home care and palliative measures. The patient may appoint a Health Care Agent to make medical decisions for the patient should the patient be unable to make decisions. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144651 | DETERMINING ONE OR MORE PROBABLE MEDICAL CODES USING MEDICAL CLAIMS - Disclosed herein is a system which addresses the problem of multiple mappings of a source ICD code to a target ICD code by using medical service claim records. The mechanism is based on analysis of the ICD code description, and analysis of accompanying data to determine a set of selection parameters to assist in the conversion. Implementation of selection parameters is disclosed. These are applied in the form of first and second axis of differentiation. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144652 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING MEDICAL RECORD COMPLEXITY AND RISK OF ADVERSE EVENTS - Methods and apparatus for analyzing an electronic medical record (EMR) are provided. The method includes assigning to at least one document in the EMR, a first value, wherein the assigning is based, at least in part, on a number of characters and/or a number of digits included in each document of the at least one document, determining a second value, wherein the second value is determined based, at least in part, on the first values, determining whether the second value is above a threshold value, and outputting an indication that the second value is above the threshold value. The second value may be used for applications including, but not limited to, determining a risk of a patient associated with the EMR having an adverse event, being readmitted to a hospital, or being transferred to an intensive care unit, facilitating workload balancing, and providing documentation to a payer of healthcare services. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING PATIENT TREATMENT HISTORY IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request from a client for medical data in a network environment, generating data rendering instructions for rendering the medical data as a visual display at the client, delivering the data rendering instructions to the client and facilitating access to the medical data by the client. The data rendering instructions include options to configure the visual display, which includes a graphical representation of the medical data displayed according to a plurality of encounters, and visual aids that reveal information upon user selection. The visual display further includes an action icon associated with each encounter, and the action icon is selectable to indicate one or more actions taken during the associated encounter. In specific embodiments, the request is sent by a browser of the client that accesses and renders the medical data according to the data rendering instructions. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144654 | HEALTHCARE CO-MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - A system, a method, and an electronic platform provide co-management for two or more business entities. In one aspect, the disclosure provides for a method including retrieving an electronic record for a client and storing first electronic record information for the client corresponding to a diagnosis of the client by the first business entity. The client is referred to the second business entity in response to the recommended service of the client, corresponding to service provided by the second business entity. The electronic record is provided to the second business entity, and second electronic record is stored for the client corresponding to service of the client by the second healthcare business entity. At least one follow-up visit is scheduled for the client at one of the first business entity or the second business entity. A first portion of a referral fee from the second business entity is distributed to the first business entity, and a second portion of the referral fee is distributed to a co-management system provider. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144655 | System and Method for Implementing Program Compliance for Health-Based Rewards - A compliance process provides the ability to identify members that have completed a required activity for a Health Incentive Program (HIP) by comparing standard data such as claims, pharmacy, laboratory, biometric, health risk assessment and other pertinent internal and external data (hereafter “source data”) against established compliance criteria for that type of data for the specific HIP. If the member meets all compliance criteria within the designated timeframe, the member's achievement is recorded, resulting in the appropriate reward being granted as defined by the HIP. The compliance process solution provides an automated way for a payer to evaluate internal and/or external data including claims, pharmacy and/or biometric data to identify instances of a member completing required activities. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144656 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO INTELLIGENTLY DETERMINE INSURANCE INFORMATION BASED ON IDENTIFIED BUSINESSES - According to some embodiments, historic transaction data and loss data may be received from a data storage device. Information about a potential business insurance customer may also be received and automatically analyzed to identify a set of related businesses. A coverage comparison engine may then determine insurance information for the potential business insurance customer based at least in part on historic transaction data and loss data associated with the set of related businesses. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144657 | INSURANCE TRACKING - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure builds on integrating existing technology with new devices, methods, and systems to provide a complete vehicle ecosystem. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144658 | System and Method for Bundling of Homeowner Insurance and a Home Service Contract - A method for bundling homeowner insurance and a home service contract includes providing a homeowner insurance policy on at least one property owned by a homeowner, and determining at least one home service contract based upon the at least one property owned by the homeowner. The home service contract includes preventative maintenance on the property. The method also includes calculating an insurance premium savings for the home service contract(s), providing the homeowner with an opportunity to purchase at least one of the home service contracts, and bundling the homeowner insurance policy with the home service contract purchased by the homeowner. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144659 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATING TO INSURANCE CLAIM STABILITY INDICATOR - The invention relates generally to data analysis, and to systems and methods for the computation of the volatility of a loss. The system comprises a module for receiving a data parameter, a database for storing the parameter, a computerized predictive model, and a business logic processor for executing the predictive model. The volatility is used to, among other things, determine an appropriate work flow for handling the loss. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144660 | ELECTRONIC MAITRE D' - A device may receive reservation information from a user via a user device. The reservation information includes information identifying a user or a user device and information identifying one or more resources that include a first resource. The device may also select the first resource based on the reservation information, determine whether the user device will take less than a threshold time to arrive at a premises, and notify a device associated with a member at the premises when the device determines that the user device will take less than the threshold time to arrive at the premises. The member is to prepare the first resource. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING AND CONDUCTING PROMOTIONAL PRESENTATIONS AT GEOGRAPHICALLY REMOTE LOCATIONS - A computer program, method, and system for organizing and conducting product or service demonstrations may be implemented with a computer system operated by or for an agent or other person or entity that organizes product or service demonstrations and a plurality of mobile phones or other portable electronic devices operated by event personnel or other persons who staff or otherwise run the product or service demonstrations. Each mobile phone may be provisioned with an event management program that receives information and data from the computer system, provides instructions and other information to an event personnel using the mobile phone, receives inputs from the event personnel while a product or service demonstration is being performed, and transmits information and data back to the computer system. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIEWING AND PURCHASING REMOTELY ACCESSIBLE PURCHASABLE ITEMS IN OR ON DISPLAYS GENERATED BY A HOST APPLICATION - Systems and methods enable users to browse purchasable items and conduct payment and purchasing transactions within the a single UI environment of a host application, without navigating to a separate application to complete the transaction. Purchase of purchasable items can be implemented using a computing device. A first user interface can be generated, including purchasable item listings. The purchasable item listings can be received by the computing device. A single host application displays the first user interface including the purchasable item listings on a display. A second user interface based at least in part on a user selection can be generated including a purchase and/or payment web page. The purchase and/or payment web page can be received by the computing device. The single host application can display the second user interface, as well. A payment transaction can proceed based on purchase information input into the one or more input fields. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144663 | Online and Offline Authentication for Instant Physical or Virtual Access and Purchases - A customer enters his mobile phone number to logon to a third-party website without a username or password. A Short Message Service (SMS) Applications-Programming Interface (API) sends the phone number to a SMS control system that authorizes the logon by sending a SMS text message or secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) request to the customer's mobile phone or mobile device requiring customer to respond by SMS or HTTPS. When the customer replies to the SMS message with an approval code such as a Personal-Identification-Number (PIN), the SMS control system approves the logon to the third-party website. An admittance gate at an event such as a concert or movie may also get the customer's phone number and use the API to activate the SMS control system to exchange SMS text messages to authorize admittance. A pre-paid ticket in an admittance queue is redeemed in the customer's account. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144664 | METHOD FOR SELLING TICKET BY AUCTION AND SYSTEM THEREOF - Provided are a system and a method for selling a ticket by auction. The system includes: a bidding price input unit which receives the number of tickets sold in the auction and bidding prices from accessed bidders; an auctioned rank calculator which calculates auctioned ranks estimated when the auction is ended, by using the bidding prices of the bidders and calculating an expected lowest successful bidding price which is a bidding price to be input by the bidder so that the bidder is a successful bidder, by using a total number of tickets sold; and an auctioned price calculator which calculates an auctioned price of each successful bidder of the auction when the auction is ended, wherein if the bidder bids at a price lower than the expected lowest successful bidding price, the bidding price input unit does not accept bidding of the bidder. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144665 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTER AIDED EVENT AND VENUE SETUP AND MODELING AND INTERACTIVE MAPS - Described are systems and methods for designing certain aspects of an event venue and for communicating information regarding the event and the event venue to others. Certain embodiments provide a dynamic seat map via which an operator can assign certain characteristics to specific seats and/or seating sections. Certain embodiments generate interactive maps for users, via which information from a plurality of sources may be integrated and visually displayed. The user may specify certain criteria, and the interactive map may identify to the user seats and/or sections that match such criteria. Certain embodiments provide an interactive seat map via which users can select seats and share information. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144666 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTER AIDED EVENT AND VENUE SETUP AND MODELING AND INTERACTIVE MAPS - Described are systems and methods for designing certain aspects of an event venue and for communicating information regarding the event and the event venue to others. Certain embodiments provide a dynamic seat map via which an operator can assign certain characteristics to specific seats and/or seating sections. Certain embodiments generate interactive maps for users, via which information from a plurality of sources may be integrated and visually displayed. The user may specify certain criteria, and the interactive map may identify to the user seats and/or sections that match such criteria. Certain embodiments provide an interactive seat map via which users can select seats and share information. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE VEHICLE RENTAL WITH REMOTE VEHICLE ACCESS - An automated vehicle rental system with individual vehicle transmitting sensors for keeping track of vehicle mileage, fill state of vehicle fuel tank, and localized position status in a rental lot. Sensors are linked to the vehicle odometer reading and to the vehicle fuel tank float sensor with compensation for types of driving and fuel fill-ups which affect float level readings. The sensors are integrated with or are linked with communicating tags operable in a defined site for ultimate communication of stored vehicle related sensor data, vehicle location and type to a central data base for automatically completely effecting check out, charges and state of vehicle readiness for renewed rental. The transmitting sensors are adapted to avoid interference between sensors of other vehicles during multiple transmissions. Also included is an in-vehicle check out and payment device operatively linkable to the transmitting sensor of the vehicle. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144668 | INTERNET BASED DYNAMIC FLIGHT RESERVATION SYSTEM AND ITS METHOD OF USE - A global flight center (GFC) having an improved global reservation system for passenger and cargo aircrafts and allows for the consolidation of aircraft flight schedules worldwide. It operates over the Internet by giving system users the ability to reserve aircraft in real time globally. With the creation of a new (hardware and software) system, the system creates an improved marketing method and possibilities between broker agencies and aircraft owner operators. For users of this new system, the new method creates an exclusive reservation system and relationship between all agents and broker parties—to the aircraft operators. This is accomplished by means of the GFC system's resources managing recruiting or registration style process which is done through the GFC interactive application on the website. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144669 | System And Method For Maintaining, Inspecting And Assessing The Reliability Of Elevator And Other People Moving Devices - An elevator device having a computer system associated therewith for determining a risk of failure in the elevator device and for determining an inspection schedule to mitigate the risk. The computer system includes a module for determining an acceptable risk score, a module for determining an inspection schedule based on said risk score, a module for determining an increase in risk score proportional to a time elapsed since an expected inspection in the inspection schedule if the expected inspection has been missed, a module for determining a tolerance within the inspection schedule based on the increased risk, and a module for specifying an inspection schedule and an inspection tolerance based on the determined schedule and the determined tolerance. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING RESOURCES IN A NETWORK - A system includes first and second allocation units that allocate resources in a network according to respective first and second selected allocations for driving the resources toward a respective first or second goal conditions. At least one of the first or second allocation unit is configured to generate and provide feedback data to the other of the first or second allocation unit. The feedback data represents a difference between an actual allocation of the one or more resources and the corresponding first or second selected allocation. At least one of the first or second allocation unit is configured to change the corresponding first or second selected allocation to change how the resources are allocated in the network based on the feedback data. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144671 | System and method for advising and investing in companies - A method for providing risk management services to company is disclosed. The method involves the following steps: (a) accessing a system; (b) viewing a project posting uploaded to the system; and (c) responding to the project posting in a manner which enables risk management services to be provided to a company. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144672 | Analytics-Based Community Value Meetings - Methods and systems of managing meetings may involve scheduling a meeting, and monitoring one or more invitee communications prior to the meeting. In addition, a prioritization may be conducted of one or more attributes of the meeting based on the one or more invitee communications. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144673 | AUTONOMIC MANUFACTURING OPERATOR AUTHORIZATION ADJUSTMENT - Operator authorizations are autonomically adjusted in many ways to automatically account for many different variables. Operator authorization may be adjusted according to an operator's past activity record so previous experience is not lost when the operator is rehired. Operator authorization may be adjusted according to the operator's quality and performance. Operator authorization may also be adjusted by recognizing similar operations to those the operator is authorized to perform, and authorizing the operator to perform one or more similar operations. Operator authorization may also be adjusted to a lesser level or may be revoked for an operation based on the passage of time. A manufacturing system may efficiently track operators taking into account different activity periods, the passage of time, the operator's performance, and similar operations to autonomically adjust the authorization of the operators as needed. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144674 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE ADVERTISING SERVICES - A system and method that can customize mobile advertising services and increase the effectiveness of advertising is provided. The method includes registering contact details of one or more advertisers in a phone book, receiving one or more mobile advertising messages from the registered advertisers, notifying a user of the reception of the mobile advertising messages, and displaying the received mobile advertising messages according to the user's confirmation request. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144675 | System and Method for Providing Web-Based Management Solutions - A centralized web-based system and method for managing appointments having a user interface that interacts with one or more users to display one or more items based on user input, a management module connected to the user interface and configured to receive data related to scheduling an appointment, determine one or more possible appointments based on the data, present the one or more possible appointments, receive a user selection from the one or more possible appointments, and schedule the appointment based on the user selection, and one or more databases configured to store appointment information, wherein the one or more databases are connected to the management module and wherein the data comprises a date and time slot and at least one of a facility, a service, and a servicer. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144676 | Cohort Manipulation and Optimization - An approach is provided to visually depict cohort data to a user. The approach includes receiving a cohort display request (e.g., from a user, etc.). In response to the request, the approach retrieves a plurality of cohort data records, with each of the cohort data records corresponding to a cohort selected from a group of cohorts. In this approach, the group of cohorts represent similar computer systems. The approach displays a set of graphic user interface (GUI) controls on a display device, with each of the GUI controls corresponds to one of the retrieved cohort data records. A user selection is received that corresponds to a selected one of the GUI controls. The system responds by executing a cohort action on the cohort corresponding to the selected GUI control. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144677 | WORKFLOW AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY - Systems and methods are provided that enable users in the building trades to project costs and to monitor invoicing and funding in real time, thereby cutting back on back office staff and allowing contractors to accurately project cash flow. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144678 | System and Method for Evolving Processes In Workflow Automation - Gradually automation of a workflow by a configuration change management system is provided by a first workflow template having a relatively low level of automation and complexity in which at least a plurality of tasks require manual input, manual response, or manual approval, operating the first workflow by a workflow automation system engine, monitoring a measurement of the maturity level of the process during the operation the first workflow, and responsive to detecting the maturity level meeting pre-determined benchmark, automatically selecting, engaging, and operating a second workflow template which increases automation by automating one or more subprocesses, adding one or more subprocesses, or eliminating one or more subprocesses. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144679 | Simulation and Visualization for Project Planning and Management - A method and apparatus for generating a project plan from project description information for a project comprising a plurality of tasks. The project description information may include information describing precedence relationships between the tasks, information indicating durations of the tasks, and information indicating variability in the durations of the tasks. A simulation model is generated for the project using the project description information. The simulation model is run for a plurality of runs to identify a subset of tasks forming a critical path and to generate simulation results data. A project network presentation is generated from the simulation results data. The project network presentation includes the identified subset of the tasks forming the critical path. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144680 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A CONTROL-FLOW IN A BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL - A new technique to analyze the control-flow, i.e., the workflow graph of a business process model, which is called symbolic execution, is provided. Acyclic workflow graphs that may contain inclusive OR-gateways are considered; a symbolic execution for them is defined, which runs in quadratic time. In particular, this symbolic execution essentially comprises labeling edges of nodes of the graph such that a label assigned to a first edge comprises a set of one or more edge identifiers, each identifying a second edge that is an outgoing edge of an XOR-split or an IOR-split node in the graph, whereby executing the second edge ensures that the first edge will be executed. Such a scheme may permit a decision for any pair of control-flow edges or tasks of the workflow graph whether they are sometimes, never, or always reached concurrently. This has different applications in finding control- and data-flow errors. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144681 | COMPUTER-BASED METHOD FOR MANAGING CONFLICT IDENTIFICATION - The invention is a computer-based method for identifying and managing conflict identification within an organization. Specifically, the present invention preferably provides the organization with the ability to: (1) identify conflicts through preset factors; (2) designate trigger levels for each conflict; (3) identify the sources of each conflict; (4) provide email notifications of the identified conflict; (5) efficiently allocate existing resources by designating certain personnel to address the identified conflict; (6) suggest conflict intervention and de-escalation strategies to address the identified conflict; (7) provide a continuous feedback loop until the identified conflict is resolved; (8) provide users with a list of completed and pending assessments; and (9) provide a reporting scheme to track each conflict within the organization. Preferably, the present invention is adaptable and customizable to different organizational environments such as medical, business, military, and school administrative systems. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING COMMUNICATION SERVICES BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR AND RELATIVE TRENDING PATTERNS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for enhancing communication services based on relative trending. A system configured to practice the method identifies, from a set of historical communication data associated with a user, relative trending data. Based on the relative trending data, the system identifies a plurality of communication periods within the historical communication data. For a time series associated with one of the communication periods, the system identifies a relative trending pattern in the relative trending data, and performs an action based on a comparison of current communication data to the relative trending pattern for a respective communication period. The communication period can be a fixed, recurring duration of time. The relative trending data is typically associated with at least one variable, which may be, for example, a second user. The system can identify and use trend peaks, patterns, and confidence levels in this approach. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144683 | DETERMINING RESIDENTIAL TRANSACTION PRICE INDICES BASED ON PRIOR TRANSACTION PRICES - A residential index valuation server is operative to determine transaction price indices for corresponding transaction price bands of residential transactions. The residential index valuation server may include a residential transaction database operative to store a plurality of residential transactions, a residential index database operative to store a plurality of transaction price indices, and a data sufficiency rules engine comprising a plurality of data sufficiency rules for evaluating the data sufficiency of residential transaction information. The residential index valuation server may aggregate a selected plurality of the residential transactions into a plurality of transaction price bands according to a plurality of residential comparable characteristics. The residential index valuation server may then determine a transaction price index for one or more of the transaction price bands. When requested by a client device, the residential index valuation server may report one or more of the transaction price indices. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144684 | IDENTIFYING AND EXPOSING ITEM PURCHASE TENDENCIES OF USERS THAT BROWSE PARTICULAR ITEMS - A data mining system generates data values reflecting purchase tendencies of users who browse particular items in an electronic catalog. The data values may include conditional probability values representing, for example, a probability that, if a user makes a purchase after browsing a first particular item, the user will purchase a second particular item. The data values may be used to provide notifications on product pages of an electronic catalog. For example, an item detail page for a first item may be supplemented with a notification of one or more other items that tend to be purchased by those who browse the first item. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144685 | Determining Strategies for Increasing Loyalty of a Population to an Entity - A method and system is disclosed that provides: (a) a theoretical framework for designing psychological research that uncovers individual decision-making networks, both in terms of sampling requirements and questioning methods, (b) an implementation interface to schedule and administer the appropriate question sequences between an interviewer and a given individual, in real-time, via a web-based system, and (c) a coding and analysis system to summarize and quantify the potential of alternative decision structures to be used to optimize the development of marketing and communication strategies. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144686 | ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM - An electronic voting system provides increased transparency to the public and verification for the individual voters regarding the tallying of their respective votes. A voting record can be made available electronically, thereby eliminating the need to provide a voter with a paper ballot. A voting record identifier is generated without use of, or reference to, voter identity. The voting record identifier is provided to the voter, such that the voter can access a record of his ballot selections and vote number sequence. In addition, a biometric authentication mechanism is provided to reduce, or eliminate, the potential that a voter is able to vote more than once. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144687 | METHOD AND ON-BOARD UNIT FOR SIGNALING TOLL TRANSACTIONS IN A ROAD TOLL SYSTEM - A method and an on-board unit for signaling toll transactions in a road toll system with geographically distributed radio beacons, carrying out toll transactions with passing on-board units of vehicles. In the on-board unit, it is verified in the course of a toll transaction between an on-board unit and a radio beacon whether a toll transaction dates back longer than a given time span, and if so, an acoustic signal is emitted by the on-board unit, and if not, no acoustic signal is emitted by the on-board unit. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144688 | AUTOMATIC MULTIPROCESSING CAR STORING AND RETRIEVING SYSTEM FOR MULTILEVEL CAR PARK - In view of the foregoing, an embodiment herein provides an automatic processing unit for car storing and retrieving system for the multilevel park system. Specifically, the automatic processing car storing and retrieving system includes an integrated central car handling unit and microcontroller unit, wherein said integrated central car handling unit comprises at least one collection-delivery rack to carry the car; at least one up-down platform to move the car vertically; and at least one wheeled platforms to move the car in a circular movement. Further, the collection-delivery rack of integrated central car handling unit can move simultaneously in circular and vertical direction. Further, a method for storing and retrieving the car by using the integrated central car handling unit is also provided. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144689 | Aggregated Customer Grouping - Aggregation of customers allows sellers to offer better rates in exchange for more sales, greater diversity of sales, and possible new customers. Customer aggregation includes suggesting alternative products to customers, obtaining collective product requests sufficiently similar that sellers can offer discounts to that customer aggregation. A system expands upon a core collection of product requests, adding similar requests having a nearby “distance” from the core collection. The system generates an expanded collection of requests, both sufficiently similar that customers are comfortable with the expanded collection, and sufficiently sizable that sellers are comfortable offering bulk discounts. Aggregation also includes determining risk of actual customer participation, even after expressing agreement to expanded collection. Sellers can determine the risk borne when offering bulk discounts to customers requesting aggregated collection. Sellers can adjust pricing to account both for desired profit margin and for desired risk premium over price point providing that profit margin. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MOBILE COMPENSATION AND INCENTIVES - A system and method for distributing incentives via mobile devices is described. One embodiment, a computer-server-based method, receives a request from a merchant to generate an incentive which incentive is funded and initiated by the merchant, receives the incentive, associates the incentive with a recipient's phone number, and transmits a notification of the incentive to a mobile device associated with the recipient's phone number, the computer server acting as a server-side wallet for the incentive, the incentive being usable, through interaction with the computer server, by the recipient for the purchase of goods or services from the merchant associated with the incentive. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144691 | PRODUCT SHOWCASE BASED ADVERTISING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary method includes a computing system tracking a plurality of product showcase events that showcase one or more products to a user, detecting an advertisement trigger event associated with the user, and, in response to the detecting of the advertisement trigger event, identifying a product associated with both the advertisement trigger event and a product showcase event included in the plurality of product showcase events and notifying the user of the product showcase event that showcased the product. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144692 | Producing and Displaying Media Content on Heterogeneous Mobile Devices - A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for displaying edition content are provided. An edition player is configured to receive a magazine edition, the magazine edition including a layout template for rendering edition content. The edition player is further configured to receive edition content subscribed to by the magazine edition, the edition content provided by a content source. The edition player then integrates the edition content within the magazine edition using the layout template to lay out the edition content based on a specification of the mobile device. The edition player then renders the edition content within the magazine edition. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144693 | Electronic Solicitation of User Incentives and Account Statistics From a Plurality of Electronic Payment Processors - Electronically soliciting user incentives and account statistics from a plurality of electronic payment processors is described. An exemplary method may include retreiving, using a processor of a device, a plurality of user account information assigned to a user for each of the plurality of electronic payment processors, respectively. The method may further include transmitting, using the processor of the device, the plurality of user account information for each of the plurality of electronic payment processors, respectively. The method may further include receiving, using the processor of the device, one or more incentive quotes from at least one of the plurality of electronic payment processors in response to the transmitting of the plurality of user account information. The one or more incentive quotes may be displayed to the user on a display of the device. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144694 | DESIGNING VIRAL MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR UP-SELLING AND CROSS-SELLING - Methods and arrangements for instituting a viral marketing strategy. Participants in a social network are ascertained. Mutual influence of the participants in purchasing decisions is determined, and purchasing influence of products on one another is assessed. At least one seed is selected from the participants for maximizing purchasing influence of one product on another product, based on mutual influence of the participants on one another. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144695 | DESIGNING VIRAL MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR UP-SELLING AND CROSS-SELLING - Methods and arrangements for instituting a viral marketing strategy. Participants in a social network are ascertained. Mutual influence of the participants in purchasing decisions is determined, and purchasing influence of products on one another is assessed. At least one seed is selected from the participants for maximizing purchasing influence of one product on another product, based on mutual influence of the participants on one another. | 2013-06-06 |
20130144696 | Methods and Devices for Determining the Price of a Product - Methods and systems facilitate electronic commerce by designating an initiator of a sale of an item that is advertised by a merchant at an offering price on an Internet web site. One embodiment comprises detecting performance of designated activities by associates of the initiator via the web site. Responsively to each performance an exclusive offer of the item for sale is made to the initiator at a progressively marked-down price. Another embodiment comprises progressively marking down the advertised price of items upon performance of designated activities by users of the web site and progressively marking up the price upon each purchase of one of the items by the users. | 2013-06-06 |