24th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150161451 | ENTITY DETECTION - A computer-implemented method for entity detection is described. In one embodiment, an entity passing through a perimeter of a predefined area is detected via a camera. Upon detecting the entity passing through the perimeter of the predefined area, a type of the entity is classified from an image of the entity captured by the camera. Upon classifying the type of the entity, a feature of the entity is detected from the image of the entity. An identifier is assigned to the entity based on the type and the detected feature of the entity. The identifier distinguishes the entity from another entity of a same type. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161452 | Home Monitoring and Control - Various arrangements for monitoring and control applications are presented. A television receiver may be configured to monitor sensor reading and or provide signals to control units for monitoring and home automation applications. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161453 | IDENTIFYING SPATIAL LOCATIONS OF EVENTS WITHIN VIDEO IMAGE DATA - An invention for identifying a spatial location of an event within video image data is provided. Disclosed are embodiments for detecting an object and obtaining trajectory data of a trajectory of the object within the video image data from a sensor device; converting the trajectory data into a contour-coded compressed image; generating, based on the trajectory data, a searchable code that contains a set of locations traversed by the trajectory of the object within the video image; associating the searchable code with the contour-coded compressed image in a database; and returning, in response to a query having a selected location that corresponds a location of the set of locations in the searchable code, an image of the trajectory data corresponding to the object based on the contour-coded compressed image in the database. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161454 | LANE DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided is a lane detection system and method. The lane detection method includes extracting feature points of a driving lane from an input road image, extracting candidate start points and candidate end points from candidate control points selected from among the feature points, selecting a left start point and a right start point of the driving lane from among the candidate start points based on information corresponding to a width of the driving lane, and selecting a left end point and a right end point of the driving lane from among the candidate end points based on a number of the candidate control points between each of the left start point and the candidate end points and the right start point and the candidate end points. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161455 | INTERSECTION RECOGNITION DEVICE AND ROAD TYPE RECOGNITION DEVICE - An intersection recognition device installed in a vehicle includes an image acquisition unit that acquires images around the moving vehicle. The device includes an extraction unit that extracts, from the images acquired by the image acquisition unit, a type and a position of at least one traffic marking existing around the vehicle. The device includes a determination unit that determines whether an intersection exists based on the type of the at least one traffic marking extracted by the extraction unit and a relative position relationship between the at least one traffic marking and the vehicle. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161456 | METHOD FOR ANGLE CALIBRATION OF THE POSITION OF A VIDEO CAMERA ON BOARD AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE - The method consists in taking, when the vehicle is running, images of the road markings delimiting the circulation lanes of the road, and in fully estimating, through an iterative process, the orientation of the camera with respect to the vehicle, based on the position of two lanes located side-by-side on the image. The calibration essentially comprises: correcting the position of the lane edges in the image ( | 2015-06-11 |
20150161457 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT DETECTION METHOD - A three-dimensional object detection device has an image capturing unit, detection area setting unit, a three-dimensional object detection unit and a lens state assessment unit. The image capturing unit has a lens for capturing images behind a vehicle. The detection area setting unit sets a detection area behind the vehicle. The three-dimensional object detection unit detects a three-dimensional object that is present in the detection area based on the acquired images. The lens state assessment unit detects if the lens is in a wet state. When a determination is made by that the lens is in a wet state, the detection area setting unit changes a position of the detection area from a first detection area, which is first set as the detection area to a second detection area, in which a display area for a driving lane marker on a driving lane side of the vehicle is removed. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161458 | EMERGENCY VEHICLE DETECTION WITH DIGITAL IMAGE SENSOR - A display system for a vehicle comprises a display mounted within a passenger compartment of a vehicle and at least one camera mounted to the vehicle and facing at least partially in a rear direction. The display shows the images recorded by the camera(s) to provide a rear view for the driver of the vehicle. An ECU is controllably connected to the display screen and the at least one camera to analyze an image from the at least one camera to detect when an object in the image is an emergency vehicle; and to activate an alert on the display when an emergency vehicle is detected. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161459 | EAR-SCAN-BASED BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION - The current document is directed to an ear-scan-based biometrics subsystem that is incorporated into any of a wide variety of processor-controlled devices, including mobile phones. The biometrics subsystem collects touch-point locations, device-orientation-representative angles, and, in certain implementations, additional data during each ear scan and uses the collected information to derive additional data that is stored with the collected data to generate a stored data representation of the ear scan. A first ear scan can be compared to a second ear scan to generate a matching score from weighted scores obtained from the touch-point locations and derived data, device-orientation-representative angles, and additional data within the stored data representations of the first and second ear scans. Ear-scan matching provides a basis for authentication of users and for compiling ear-scan profiles for users. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161460 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGY - Biometric authentication technology, in which biometric data is maintained for a group of people. The biometric data includes sorted similarity scores, where each of the sorted similarity scores is computed to represent similarity between a corresponding biometric image and a reference image. A biometric verification system accesses a biometric image of at least a portion of a person, accesses the reference image, and computes a similarity score that represents similarity between the accessed biometric image and the reference image. The biometric verification system searches the sorted similarity scores included in the biometric data using the computed similarity score and outputs a result based on the searching. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161461 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ACOUSTIC SIGNALS BASED ON BIOMETRIC INFORMATION - An apparatus, method and system are provided for sensing an individual's biometric information, and generating and transmitting an acoustic signal representative of the sensed biometric information. The acoustic signal may be transmitted as an audio signal or an ultrasonic signal to another apparatus in the system for authentication or verification of the individual's identity. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161462 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus determines an orientation of an image according to acquired image information. The image processing apparatus includes an image information acquiring unit, a character string extracting unit, and an image orientation determining unit. The image information acquiring unit acquires image information. The character string extracting unit extracts a character string existing in a rectangular region surrounded by ruled lines or ruled lines and a periphery of the image in a partial area that is a part of the image and that meets a predetermined condition. The image orientation determining unit determines an orientation of the image according to a direction of the character string extracted by the character string extracting unit. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ON-TOP WRITING - A handwriting recognition apparatus facilitates user entry of strokes one on top of another. The apparatus, which includes a processor and a display integrated with a touch sensitive screen, receives a series of strokes via the screen. Each stroke is defined by contact, trace, and lift occurrences. Each stroke appears on the display until occurrence of a prescribed event, and then disappears. The apparatus accumulates strokes into a buffer and interprets all accumulated strokes collectively against a character database and optionally a linguistic database, to identify multiple candidate strings that could be represented by the accumulated strokes. The apparatus displays candidate strings for user selection after all strokes have faded, or after receiving a user submitted delimiter, or after a given delay has elapsed following user entry of the latest stroke. Alternatively, candidate strings are displayed after each stroke without waiting for timeout or explicit delimiter. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161464 | DETECTING AND REPORTING IMPROPER ACTIVITY INVOLVING A VEHICLE - Disclosed are various embodiments for detecting and reporting improper activity, such a traffic violation. In one embodiment, a computing device receives multiple image frames from a client device. The computing device detects that a vehicle shown in at least one of the image frames is in violation of a rule. The computing device generates an evidence package based on at least one of the image frames. The computing device transmits the evidence to an evidence review device for review by an enforcement individual. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161465 | TEXT RECOGNITION FOR TEXTUALLY SPARSE IMAGES - A text recognition server is configured to recognize text in a sparse text image. Specifically, given an image, the server specifies a plurality of “patches” (blocks of pixels within the image). The system applies a text detection algorithm to the patches to determine a number of the patches that contain text. This application of the text detection algorithm is used both to estimate the orientation of the image and to determine whether the image is textually sparse or textually dense. If the image is determined to be textually sparse, textual patches are identified and grouped into text regions, each of which is then separately processed by an OCR algorithm, and the recognized text for each region is combined into a result for the image as a whole. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED IMAGE CROPPING - Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention automatically crop images based upon the location of one or more regions of interest (ROIs) identified within the cropped image. In one embodiment, an image cropping application configures a processor to utilize at least one object detector to identify at least one region of interest within an image. A plurality of candidate cropped images within the image are selected and for each candidate cropped image, an output is generated by weighting each of the at least one region of interest contained within the candidate cropped image as a function of its position within the candidate cropped image. A crop location can then be selected based upon the candidate cropped image having the largest output. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161467 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a memory, a receiving unit, a decision unit, and a concealment unit. The memory stores a history of performing, on an image having an attribute, a process that conceals an area within the image. The receiving unit receives an image. The decision unit extracts from the memory a history of a process performed on an image having an attribute that matches an attribute of the received image, and on the basis of the extracted history of a process, decides a concealment area within the received image. The concealment unit conceals the concealment area decided by the decision unit. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161468 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program, which are capable of accurate collation even when an image contains a number of identical or similar subjects. The image processing apparatus of the present invention has: first feature amount generating means for generating, with respect to a plurality of feature points to be detected from a first image, a first local feature amount group including local feature amounts representing feature amounts of a plurality of local regions containing the respective feature points, and a first coordinate position information group including coordinate position information; region dividing means for clustering the feature points of the first image based on the first coordinate position information group; and collation means for collating, in units of clusters, the first local feature amount group with a second local feature amount group formed from local feature amounts of feature points detected from a second image. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161469 | DETECTING GLARE IN A FRAME OF IMAGE DATA - Disclosed are systems, computer-readable mediums, and methods for detecting glare in a frame of image data. A frame of image data is preprocessed. A set of connected components in the preprocessed frame is determined. A set of statistics is calculated for one or more connected components in the set of connected components. A decision for the one or more connected components is made, using the calculated set of statistics, if the connected component is a light spot over text. Whether glare is present in the frame is determined. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161470 | REGISTRATION AND COMPARISON OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS - Information of different scans of physical objects may require comparison, for example to determine if the scans are of the same object or if an object has changed, or better information for a three dimensional model may be desired. Different scans of physical objects may be compared by determining lines or planes tangent to a surface at a discrete number of points, registering three dimensional information provided by the scans using the tangent lines or planes, and determining a measure of discrepancy between the surfaces. Three dimensional information of different scans of the same object may also be merged after determining lines or planes tangent to a surface at a discrete number of points and performing registration and merging. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161471 | METHOD FOR FITTING A STRAIGHT LINE TO DATA WITH OUTLIERS - A method for fitting a straight line for a statistics dataset (x, y) containing outliers comprising the steps of: a) receiving a statistics dataset (x, y) containing outliers; b) constructing initial interval search box [m,c] for slope and intercept for received statistics dataset (x, y); c) formulating an objective function based on initial search box; d) obtaining an equation of line model by representing it in interval domain; e) processing interval residuals by taking the difference between response variable and estimation of response variable in interval domain; f) evaluating interval Tukey's biweight function by deciding the outlierness of any data point by comparing the robust median of absolute deviation of interval residuals and absolute value of interval residual for that point; g) finding the estimates of slope and intercept by using vectorized version of interval global optimization process; and h) fitting a straight line for the statistics dataset (x, y) based on the estimates of slope and intercept. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161472 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: determining whether or not an eye region of a user being detected a line-of-sight in an image resulting from photographing an eye of the user is influenced by reflection light, the eye region being a region of the eye; and detecting, as a feature portion of the eye, a region that is included in the eye region and that includes a pixel having a feature that is the same as or similar to any of features of the feature portion, when it is determined that the eye region is influenced by the reflection light, the features being accumulated for respective strengths of influences of the reflection light that appear in images of the feature portion of the eye. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161473 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING DISTORTED STRAIGHT LINE FROM IMAGE - A method and a device for extracting a distorted straight line from an image. The method includes performing a line segment detection process on the image; for each line segment detected, finding adjacent line segments having a low non-collinear degree with a current line segment, so as to combine them together to obtain one or more line segment combinations; and extracting the distorted straight line according to the line segment combination. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161474 | FEATURE DENSITY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system capable of determining which recognition algorithms should be applied to regions of interest within digital representations is presented. A preprocessing module utilizes one or more feature identification algorithms to determine regions of interest based on feature density. The preprocessing modules leverages the feature density signature for each region to determine which of a plurality of diverse recognition modules should operate on the region of interest. A specific embodiment that focuses on structured documents is also presented. Further, the disclosed approach can be enhanced by addition of an object classifier that classifies types of objects found in the regions of interest. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161475 | SPARSE ADAPTIVE FILTER - The disclosure provides a filtering engine for selecting a subset of hyperspectral imaging wavebands having information useful for detecting a target in a scene. Selecting these wavebands, called “sparse bands,” is an iterative process. One or more search techniques of varying computational complexity are used in the process. The techniques rely on various selection criteria, including a signal to clutter ratio that measures the “goodness” of band selection. A convenient example of the filtering engine uses several of the techniques together in a layered approach. In this novel approach, simpler computational techniques are applied, initially, to reduce a number of bands. More computationally intensive techniques then search the reduced band space. Accordingly, the filtering engine efficiently selects a set of sparse bands tailored for each target and each scene, and maintains some of the detection capability provided with a full set of wavebands. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161476 | METHOD OF MATCHING IMAGE FEATURES WITH REFERENCE FEATURES - A method of matching image features with reference features comprises the steps of providing a current image, providing a set of reference features, wherein each of the reference features comprises at least one first parameter which is at least partially indicative of a position and/or orientation of the reference feature with respect to a global coordinate system, wherein the global coordinate system is an earth coordinate system or an object coordinate system, or at least partially indicative of a position of the reference feature with respect to an altitude, detecting at least one feature in the current image in a feature detection process, associating with the detected feature at least one second parameter which is at least partially indicative of a position and/or orientation of the detected feature, or which is at least partially indicative of a position of the detected feature with respect to an altitude, and matching the detected feature with a reference feature by determining a similarity measure. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161477 | DEVICE PAIRING IN A NETWORK - A method for device pairing including displaying at least one image having a first characteristic using a first application by a first electronic device. It is determined if the image is recognizable. If the image is determined to be recognizable, pairing the first electronic device with a second electronic device. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161478 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image processing device includes: a common region sum of absolute differences (SAD) calculation unit configured to define each of a common target region in which a plurality of target regions predetermined for each target pixel overlap and a common reference region in which a plurality of reference regions predetermined for each corresponding reference pixel overlap and output a common SAD calculation result obtained by performing SAD calculation based on values represented by pixel signals of pixels included in the common target region and the common reference region; and addition processing units equal in number to the target pixels to be simultaneously correlated and configured to correspond to the target pixels and output SAD calculation results obtained by performing addition processes based on the common SAD calculation result and an SAD calculation result of a region which is not included in the common target region within a target region. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161479 | METHOD AND SYSTEM ADDRESS RESULT ARBITRATION - A method to arbitrate between results obtained from observationally data derived by several procedures. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161480 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATCHING AN IMAGE USING NORMALIZED FEATURE VECTORS - A method, system and computer program product for encoding an image is provided. The image that needs to be represented is represented in the form of a Gaussian pyramid which is a scale-space representation of the image and includes several pyramid images. The feature points in the pyramid images are identified and a specified number of feature points are selected. The orientations of the selected feature points are obtained by using a set of orientation calculating algorithms. A patch is extracted around the feature point in the pyramid images based on the orientations of the feature point and the sampling factor of the pyramid image. The boundary patches in the pyramid images are extracted by padding the pyramid images with extra pixels. The feature vectors of the extracted patches are defined. These feature vectors are normalized so that the components in the feature vectors are less than a threshold. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161481 | LEARNING DEVICE AND METHOD, RECOGNITION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A learning device includes: a generating unit configured to generate an image having different resolution from an input image; an extracting unit configured to extract a feature point serving as a processing object from an image generated by the generating unit; a calculating unit configured to calculate the feature amount of the feature point by subjecting the feature point to filter processing employing a predetermined filter; and an identifier generating unit configured to generate an identifier for detecting a predetermined target object from the image by statistical learning employing the feature amount; with the filter including a plurality of regions, and the calculating unit taking the difference value of difference within the regions as the feature amount. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161482 | REFINING IMAGE RELEVANCE MODELS - Methods, systems and apparatus for refining image relevance models. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be implemented in methods that include re-training an image relevance model by generating a first re-trained model based on content feature values of first images of a first portion of training images in a set of training images, receiving, from the first re-trained model, image relevance scores for second images of a second portion of the set of training images, removing, from the set of training images, some of the second images identified as outlier images for which the image relevance score received from the first re-trained model is below a threshold score, and generating a second re-trained model based on content feature values of the first images of the first portion and the second images of the second portion that remain following removal of the outlier images. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161483 | Detecting and Flagging Likely Confidential Content in Photographs to Prevent Automated Dissemination - Automatic distribution of image data, such as a digital photographs, is prevented or delayed if the photograph is determined to likely contain confidential data. Online photo streaming services, albums, social media accounts, and backup services can be a source of inadvertent disclosure of confidential information due to these automatic dissemination functions of modern photo capturing devices. Detection criteria to trigger the blocking of dissemination may include recognition of faces of co-workers and clients, recognition of business furnishings such as whiteboards and conference room equipment, as well as geotags where the image was captured, the time, day of week, and date at which it was captured, and network identifiers associated with the network on which the capturing device is connected. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161484 | Generating an Anatomical Model Using a Rule-Based Segmentation and Classification Process - A system for computer-aided detection uses a computer-implemented network structure to analyze patterns present in digital image slices of a human body and to generate a three-dimensional anatomical model of a patient. The anatomical model is generated by detecting easily identifiable organs first and then using those organs as context objects to detect other organs. A user specifies membership functions that define which objects of the network structure belong to the various classes of human organs specified in a class hierarchy. A membership function of a potentially matching class determines whether a candidate object of the network structure belongs to the potential class based on the relation between a property of the voxels linked to the candidate object and a property of the context object. Some voxel properties used to classify an object are location, brightness and volume. The human organs are then measured to assist in the patient's diagnosis. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161485 | Learning Semantic Image Similarity - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying similar images. In some implementations, a method is provided that includes receiving a collection of images and data associated with each image in the collection of images; generating a sparse feature representation for each image in the collection of images; and training an image similarity function using image triplets sampled from the collection of images and corresponding sparse feature representations. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161486 | DETERMINING AN OBJECT LOCATION RELATIVE TO A DIGITAL DOCUMENT - Systems and methods for determining an object location relative to a digital document are disclosed herein. A marking is applied to at least one cell in at least one row and to at least one cell in at least one column of a digital document. The markings define an axis system for the digital document. Each object has a stored digital address within the digital document. When the digital document is converted into a fixed file format, a location of the object can be determined that will match the location of the object on the printed page. By comparing the digital address of the object to the axis system defined by the markings, after the document has been converted to a fixed document format, the location of the object is defined spatially. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161487 | PRINT SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - The invention is directed to a print service providing apparatus which is disposed on a network and connected to at least one printer through a communication line so as to provide print service, the apparatus including: a storage unit that stores, in advance, conversion data which have been converted into a bitmap format; and a supply unit that acquires, in accordance with a print instruction, the conversion data stored in the storage unit and supplies the conversion data to the printer connected through the communication line. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161488 | COLOR CONVERSION APPARATUS, LOOK-UP TABLE GENERATING METHOD, AND LOOK-UP TABLE GENERATING APPARATUS - A color conversion apparatus includes a storage section configured to store a look-up table specifying a correspondence relationship between an used amount of a first color material used for a formation of a printing material in a printing device and an used amount of a second color material used for a formation of a color reproduction image in an image-forming apparatus, with the look-up table further specifying the correspondence relationship indicating a first output characteristic for a first region included in an input color space represented by a color of the first color material, and further specifying the correspondence relationship indicating a second output characteristic, which is different from the first output characteristic, for a second region, which is different from the first region, included in the input color space, and a color conversion section configured to perform a color conversion in reference to the look-up table. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161489 | Overcoat Processing Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes analyzing color planes of a compressed sheetside image and generating an overcoat plane based on the color planes. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161490 | PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing control method for printing an image onto a recording medium including inputting data to be used for printing a page, setting a position and a size of a margin for a plurality of pages represented by the input data, according to an instruction from a user, and causing a print device to print an image including the plurality of pages and in which the binging margin with the set width is arranged at the set position, onto the recording medium in a direction determined according to the width of the margin. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161491 | IMAGE USED COMMERCIAL GOODS CREATING APPARATUS, IMAGE USED COMMERCIAL GOODS CREATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide an image used commercial goods creating apparatus and an image used commercial goods creating method that automatically create desired image used commercial goods using a processed image which a user has strong feelings about. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161492 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus is provided that, in a case where copy numbers are printed on the single-sheet document and the sheets are then discharged, prevents the copy numbers from going out of order while preventing the time it takes to complete printing from being extended. A method for controlling such a printing apparatus includes performing control such that, in a case where processing of printing an image on a single sheet per copy is carried out for a plurality of copies, the sheet on which the image is printed is discharged in a face-up state or in a face-down state depending on printing of the copy number. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161493 | System And Method For Controlling Power Modes In Printers, Photocopiers, And Multi-Function Devices - A printer, copier, or multi-function printing device (MFP) operates in a reduced power mode in which a controller identifies a path of motion of an object external to the printer with reference to signals from a proximity sensor housed in the printer. The controller connects one or more components to electric power to transition to an elevated power operating mode if the identified path corresponds to a path history that is stored in a memory of paths of object paths that have occurred prior to operation of the printer, copier or MFP. The activation of the components reduces a delay that an operator perceives as the printer, copier or MFP transitions from the reduced power operating mode to the elevated power operating mode thus significantly reducing power consumption during operation. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161494 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus is configured to receive data on which a printing area and a paper area different from the printing area are set, identify a type of an apparatus for printing the received data, and determine a paper size used for printing using the printing area or the paper size using the paper area based on the identified type of the printing apparatus. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161495 | GENERATING A HYBRID QUICK RESPONSE (QR) CODE - An apparatus supporting hybrid quick response (QR) codes may include: a computer chassis; a dynamic display on the exterior of the computer chassis, the dynamic display configured to render dynamic QR code portions; and a static display that includes static QR code portions, where the static display is adapted to the chassis such that the static QR code portions and dynamic QR code portions rendered by the dynamic display comprise a single, hybrid scannable QR code. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161496 | GENERATING A HYBRID QUICK RESPONSE (QR) CODE - An apparatus supporting hybrid quick response (QR) codes may include: a computer chassis; a dynamic display on the exterior of the computer chassis, the dynamic display configured to render dynamic QR code portions; and a static display that includes static QR code portions, where the static display is adapted to the chassis such that the static QR code portions and dynamic QR code portions rendered by the dynamic display comprise a single, hybrid scannable QR code. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161497 | PAYMENT CARD AND METHODS - One variation of a payment card includes: a sheet comprising first and second icons; a transducer configured to output a voltage in response to an impulse on the sheet; a wireless communication module; a first input region adjacent the first icon; a second input region adjacent the second icon; a magnetic stripe emulator; and a processor configured to transition from a passive state to an active state in response a voltage output from the transducer, to receive a first magnetic sequence command associated with a first payment method and a second magnetic sequence command associated with a second payment method, to assign the first payment method to the first input region and the second payment method to the second input region, to receive a selection for the second payment method from the second input region, and to control the magnetic stripe emulator according to the second magnetic sequence command. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161498 | PAYMENT CARD AND METHODS - One variation of a payment card includes: a sheet comprising first and second icons; a transducer configured to output a voltage in response to an impulse on the sheet; a wireless communication module; a first input region adjacent the first icon; a second input region adjacent the second icon; a magnetic stripe emulator; and a processor configured to transition from a passive state to an active state in response a voltage output from the transducer, to receive a first magnetic sequence command associated with a first payment method and a second magnetic sequence command associated with a second payment method, to assign the first payment method to the first input region and the second payment method to the second input region, to receive a selection for the second payment method from the second input region, and to control the magnetic stripe emulator according to the second magnetic sequence command. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161499 | One and Two-Part Printable EM Tags - The present invention relates to methods of assembly, labeling and programming decoupled EM tags used in the tagging and tracking of items wherein the tags including a printable label portion and a decoupler portion which are combined after printing on the surface of and programming a programmable device associated with the label portion. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161500 | CARD-TYPE WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER FOR A VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Disclosed is a wireless transceiver for a vehicle and a method of manufacturing the same. In a wireless transceiver manufacturing process according to the present disclosure and a method of manufacturing the same, both of the top and bottom sides of a circuit board, on which components are mounted, are encapsulated using a resin material in a state where the circuit board floats in a cavity. A pin configured to support the circuit board is installed and a decoration flat member is fixed to the surface of the circuit board opposite to the side where the pin is installed using double-sided tape. As a result, it is possible to prevent the resin case from being warped by heat generated from the circuit board. In addition, it is possible to omit an existing post-processing process for preventing the damage to the circuit board which may be caused when one side of the circuit board is exposed to the outside as it is. Thus, steps of the manufacturing process and the manufacturing costs can be reduced. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161501 | CHIP CARD WITH CONTACTING THAT IS PASTY OR LIQUID AT ROOM TEMPERATURE - The invention relates to a chip card, comprising a first electrical component part ( | 2015-06-11 |
20150161502 | MULTILAYER WIRING TYPE DOUBLE-INTERFACE IC CARD ANTENNA MODULE - Disclosed is a multilayer wiring type double-interface IC card antenna module, comprising: an electrode diaphragm layer ( | 2015-06-11 |
20150161503 | KITS AND COMPONENTS FOR MANUFACTURING INLAYS - Forming antenna structures having turns of wire, foil or conductive material on a an antenna substrate or in a layer of adhesive layer on a carrier substrate, transferring the antenna structures individually or many at once to corresponding transponder sites on an inlay substrate and connecting the aligned termination ends of the antenna structures to terminal areas of RFID chip modules at the transponder sites. Transferring may be performed by various means such as laminating (heat and pressure), or heating the antenna structures directly or indirectly. The antenna substrate may be in web format or sheet format. Automated manufacturing procedures are disclosed. Kits having components for manufacturing inlay substrates, inlays and secure documents are disclosed. Various features of an inlay substrate and chip module are disclosed. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161504 | Personal Can Counter - The present invention relates to a device for the counting of cans and bottles as they are deposited into a receptacle. The device comprises an adjustable means for attaching onto a trash receptacle and hold the same above the receptacle in order to deposit cans and bottles through the device and thereafter within the receptacle. Further, a counter is provided for numerically representing each can or bottle deposited within the receptacle. When the trashcan or bin is full or ready to be emptied, an individual can view the counter in order to know how many cans or bottles are contained within the receptacle prior to recycling. The device, therefore, offers a convenient way to count deposited bottles, eliminates the need to manually count bottles, and offers a practical way to encourage people to recycle. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161505 | Method of Programming a Neural Network Computer - A method is disclosed for programming a target neural network computer for use in cognitive computing systems in automotive safety applications. An observer neural network computer is integrated into active safety systems of a plurality of vehicles to observe signals. Each respective observer neural network computer is arranged to observe signals from a forward facing camera and signals from a driver action monitor of its respective vehicle, to process the observed signals from the forward facing camera of its respective vehicle and correlate them with the observed signals from the driver action monitor of its respective vehicle. The correlated signals from the plurality of observer neural network computers are combined, and the target neural network computer is programmed for use in cognitive computing systems in automotive safety applications based on said combined correlated signals. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161506 | EFFECTING MODULATION BY GLOBAL SCALAR VALUES IN A SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK - Methods and apparatus are provided for effecting modulation using global scalar values in a spiking neural network. One example method for operating an artificial nervous system generally includes determining one or more updated values for artificial neuromodulators to be used by a plurality of entities in a neuron model and providing the updated values to the plurality of entities. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161507 | HIERARCHICAL BASED SEQUENCING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL - A hierarchical based sequencing (HBS) machine learning model. In one example embodiment, a method includes employing a machine learning model to predict multiple interdependent output components of an MOD output decision. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161508 | MULTIPLE OUTPUT RELAXATION MACHINE LEARNING MODEL - A multiple output relaxation (MOR) machine learning model. In one example embodiment, a method for employing an MOR machine learning model to predict multiple interdependent output components of a multiple output dependency (MOD) output decision may include training a classifier for each of multiple interdependent output components of an MOD output decision to predict the component based on an input and based on all of the other components. The method may also include initializing each possible value for each of the components to a predetermined output value. The method may further include running relaxation iterations on each of the classifiers to update the output value of each possible value for each of the components until a relaxation state reaches an equilibrium or a maximum number of relaxation iterations is reached. The method may also include retrieving an optimal component from each of the classifiers. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161509 | SETTING SUPPORT DEVICE, AND SETTING SUPPORT METHOD - In a setting support device, for the existing system groups each include multiple tags, a grouping unit groups the systems that have common tags. A rule extracting unit extracts, for each grouped group, a set rule that is used for environmental setting set in each of the systems on the basis of the environmental setting that is set in the systems belonging to a group. A tag common rule specifying unit specifies a set rule that is common in each tag on the basis of the set rule that is extracted for each group and on the basis of the tags included in the systems belonging to each group. A new rule merging unit creates, by using the set rule specified by each tag, a set rule that is associated with the multiple tags included in a new system. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161510 | RULES EXECUTION PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods, mediums, and systems are described for providing a platform coupled to one or more rules engines. The platform may provide runtime rule services to one or more applications. Different rules engines may be used for different types of rules, such as calculations, decisions, process control, transformation, and validation. Rules engines can be added, removed, and reassigned to the platform. When the platform receives a request for services from an application, the platform selects one of the rules engines to handle the request and instructs the selected rules engine to execute the rule. The rules engine may be selected automatically. The platform may be implemented through a service-oriented architecture. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161511 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING GAIT ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE A HEALTH QUALITY MEASURE - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for calculating a health quality measure are disclosed. For example, a method receives characteristics of motion information, wherein the characteristics of motion information is based upon gait information, monitors the characteristics of motion information over a time period to determine a plurality of different modes of motion within the time period, and calculates the health quality measure based upon the plurality of different modes of motion. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161512 | Mining Forums for Solutions to Questions - An approach is provided for mining threaded online discussions. In the approach, performed by an information handling system, a natural language processing (NLP) analysis is performed on threaded discussions pertaining to a given topic. The analysis is performed across multiple web sites with each of the web sites including one or more threaded discussions. The analysis results in harvested discussions pertaining to the topic. The harvested discussions are correlated and a question is identified from the harvested discussions. A set of candidate answers is also identified from the harvested discussions, with one of the candidate answers being selected as the most likely answer to the identified question. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161513 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTING DECEPTIVE ANSWERS TO USER QUESTIONS BASED ON USER PREFERENCE RELATIONSHIPS - A computer-implemented method can include receiving, at a computing device having one or more processors, questions and answers, each question having one or more answers, and each question and each answer being associated with a particular user. The method can include receiving, at the computing device, evaluations of the answers from users. The method can include identifying, at the computing device, at least one of textual and contextual features for each answer to obtain sets of features. The method can include generating, at the computing device, a user preference graph indicating relationships between users associated with at least one of the questions, the answers, and the evaluations. The method can also include detecting, at the computing device, whether each specific answer is a deceptive answer based on its set of features and the user preference graph. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161514 | USER MANAGEMENT METHOD, SERVER DEVICE, AND USER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing the appliance use information stored in the storing to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161515 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CORRECTION OF CONTROLLED SYSTEM DATA - Computational methods and systems that collect operational data from an intelligent controller to identify information, or correct information, about a device and system controlled by the intelligent controller are disclosed. Computational methods and systems use a set of operational data and information known about other devices and systems controlled by similar intelligent controllers to process the operational data and generate information, or correct information, about the device and system. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161516 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING MODE OF MOTION WITH PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL - A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for determining a mode of motion are disclosed. For example, a method receives training data comprising gait information associated with a plurality of different modes of motion. The method performs principal component analysis on the training data to extract principal components from the training data and generates a hidden markov model for each of a plurality of different modes of motion based upon the training data. The method receives testing data comprising gait information, transforms the testing data based upon the principal components and calculates a likelihood of the testing data based upon each hidden markov model for each of the plurality of different modes of motion. The method determines the mode of motion of the testing data, where the mode of motion is one of the plurality of different modes of motion for which a highest likelihood is calculated. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161517 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING POPULARITY OF SOCIAL DATA - A method and device for predicting popularity by setting various criteria of popularity of social data spread over a social network service (SNS) including: a data collecting unit to collect previous data created during a predetermined time and created in real time from data storage associated with an SNS, a data popularity prediction resource building unit to extract user information and data information from the previous data created during the predetermined time and build a social data popularity prediction resource using the extracted user information and data information, and a popularity predicting unit to predict popularity of the social data created in real time using the data information and the user information extracted from the data created in real time and the built popularity prediction resource, in which the predicted popularity includes predicted values of at least two items among a spread amount, a popularity time, and a spread rate. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161518 | System and Method for Non-Invasive Application Recognition - A system and method are disclosed for a non-invasive scheme for application recognition using packet processing. The system and method determine the type of application based on meta-information about the packet flows, rather than on the contents of the packets. An embodiment method includes monitoring and storing, by a processor, direction values, timing values and size values of a sequence of packets for each of a plurality of application protocol types. The direction values are discrete, and the timing and size values are continuous. The method further includes training a hidden Markov model (HMM) for each of the application protocol types using a HMM training algorithm on the direction, timing and size values. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161519 | NAME RECOGNITION - A computer-implemented technique includes obtaining training electronic messages, identifying name context in the training electronic messages, and determining patterns from the name context. The technique can include applying the patterns to the training electronic messages to extract candidate names and selecting a set of the patterns based on the extracted candidate names to obtain a set of patterns. In some implementations, the technique can further include applying the set of patterns to electronic messages associated with a first user having a registered profile, extracting candidate names, and selecting a set of alternate names for the first user from the candidate names. The technique can also include detecting a use of one alternate name from the set of alternate names by a second user, and outputting a suggestion to the second user in response to the detecting, the suggestion being based on the registered profile of the first user. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING AND/OR OPTIMIZING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES - A system and method for learning and/or optimizing processes related to semiconductor manufacturing is provided. A learning component generates a set of candidate process models based on process data associated with one or more fabrication tools. The learning component also selects a particular process model from the set of candidate process models that is associated with lowest error. An optimization component generates a set of candidate solutions associated with the particular process model. The optimization component also selects a particular solution from the set of candidate solutions based on a target output value and an output value associated with the particular solution. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161521 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING SALIENT DIALOG USAGE FROM LIVE DATA - Systems and processes are disclosed for virtual assistant request recognition using live usage data and data relating to future events. User requests that are received but not recognized can be used to generate candidate request templates. A count can be associated with each candidate request template and can be incremented each time a matching candidate request template is received. When a count reaches a threshold level, the corresponding candidate request template can be used to train a virtual assistant to recognize and respond to similar user requests in the future. In addition, data relating to future events can be mined to extract relevant information that can be used to populate both recognized user request templates and candidate user request templates. Populated user request templates (e.g., whole expected utterances) can then be used to recognize user requests and disambiguate user intent as future events become relevant. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161522 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR JOINT TRAINING OF HYBRID NEURAL NETWORKS FOR ACOUSTIC MODELING IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - Systems and methods for training networks are provided. A method for training networks comprises receiving an input from each of a plurality of neural networks differing from each other in at least one of architecture, input modality, and feature type, connecting the plurality of neural networks through a common output layer, or through one or more common hidden layers and a common output layer to result in a joint network, and training the joint network. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161523 | System and Method for Assessing Categorization Rule Selectivity - Assessment of selectivity of categorization rules. One or more categorization rules are applied to a set of un-categorized objects to produce a categorization result set representing assignment of objects the set into at least two categories. A selectivity score for the at least one categorization rule is obtained based on statistical information. The numerical selectivity score represents an estimation of accuracy of the at least one categorization rule, and is produced as a result of application of at least one trained selectivity determination algorithm, which is based on application of a plurality of specially-selected categorization rules to a set of pre-categorized training data, with the application of each one producing a uniform grouping of objects. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161524 | SAMPLING FROM A SET SPINS WITH CLAMPING - The techniques and structures described herein generally relate to sampling from an available probability distribution to create a desirable probability distribution. This resultant distribution can be used for computing values used in computational techniques including: Importance Sampling and Markov chain Monte Carlo systems. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161525 | Ranking Reserved Seating on Event Management Systems - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a seating map of a venue for an event associated with an event-management system, wherein the seating map has a plurality of seats, each seat having a particular location with respect to the seating map, receiving from an event organizer for the event a focal point for the seating map, the focal point having a location with respect to the seating map, and determining a score for each seat based at least in part on the distance between the particular location of the seat and the location of the focal point. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161526 | GENERATION OF OFFERS WITH LIMITED TIME FRAME GUARANTEED AVAILABILITY AND PRICING FOR TRAVEL ITINERARIES - A method, apparatus and program product generate a set of guaranteed offers that are guaranteed to a traveler in terms of both availability and price for a limited period of time. The guaranteed offers may be grouped together into a set such that booking probabilities may be assigned to travel services associated with the guaranteed offers and an overbooking factor for at least one travel service may be determined based upon the assigned booking probabilities. By doing so, travelers may be provided with a guarantee of price and availability prior to booking, while inventory and/or revenue management for a travel provider may be managed in a more accurate manner that accounts for the provisional status of the guaranteed offers, and the likelihood that only one, or potentially, none of the guaranteed offers will ultimately be accepted by the traveler. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161527 | MULTI-PHASE SEARCH AND PRESENTATION FOR VERTICAL SEARCH WEBSITES - The present invention provides a methodology and system for efficiently performing travel reservation queries and presenting significant search results to a user. A travel reservation search engine constructs a first query from one or more constraints. The first query has a threshold probability of returning a first set of search results that will lead to the purchase of a travel reservation. Additionally, if determined necessary by the search engine a second query is constructed from one or more constraints. The second query returns a second set of search results. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161528 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF TRAVEL INCIDENTS AND REBOOKING OF TRAVEL ITINERARIES IMPACTED BY SAME - A method, apparatus and program product automatically propose alternate travel services to a traveler in response to detection of a travel incident that impacts one or more travel services in the traveler's itinerary. By doing so, the impact of a travel incident on the traveler, and in many cases, the resulting stress of the traveler and the burden of rearranging the traveler's schedule to accommodate the travel incident, may be reduced. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161529 | Identifying Related Events for Event Ticket Network Systems - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first event profile of an event-management system associated with a first event and one or more second event profiles of the event-management system associated with one or more second events, respectively. The method also includes determining a first event-vector based on the first event profile and one or more second event-vectors based on the one or more second event profiles, respectively. The method further includes calculating one or more similarity scores for the first event profile with respect to each of the one or more second event profiles, respectively, based on a comparison of the first event-vector with each of the second event-vectors. The method also includes transmitting references to one or more of the second event profiles to a user of the event-management system based on the calculated similarity scores for each second event profile. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161530 | METHOD FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN PEST, DISEASE AND/OR WEED CONTROL MANAGEMENT - A method for decision support in pest, disease and/or weed control management utilizing an evaluation device is disclosed. The method enables a more exact and reliable forecast as to when the appearance of the pest species, pathogen and/or weed variety is to be expected in the forecast year. The evaluation device utilizes temperature data of the forecast year and the preceding year as well as data relating to when the pest species, pathogen and/or weed variety first appeared at the forecast location in the preceding year. The evaluation device makes a forecast based on a comparison of accumulated degree day numbers computed from the temperature data. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161531 | ASSOCIATION-BASED PRODUCT DESIGN - A method for designing a new product includes automatically identifying a plurality of components of stored products, wherein the plurality of components is associated with an existing component included in a design of the new product, automatically selecting a new component from among the plurality of components, wherein a relationship between the existing component and the new component optimizes a design objective for the new product, automatically adding the new component to the design for the new product, and iteratively repeating the identifying, the selecting, and the adding until a stopping criterion is met, wherein the design for the new product is complete when the stopping criterion is met. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161532 | BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING USING A QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM - A method, system, and computer program product for creating or augmenting a business process model using a question and answer (Q and A) system are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A request to create the business process model of a business process is received. A knowledgebase is created using a business process modeling (BPM) data and user domain data. the user domain data comprises a combination of unstructured documents and structured documents related to an operation in a user domain. A natural language (NL) question is formed corresponding to the request. The NL question and the knowledgebase are submitted to the Q and A system. A set of answers is received from the Q and A system responsive to the NL question. An answer is presented as a part of the business process model. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161533 | ON-DEMAND VEHICLE OPERATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ON-DEMAND VEHICLE OPERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND ON-DEMAND VEHICLE OPERATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A plurality of users of an on-demand bus each use an information terminal device to transmit, as a request, to an operation management center, reservation information including a desired boarding location at which to get on the bus, a desired boarding time, a boarding allowable additional time period for designating a desired boarding time slot, a desired drop-off location at which to get off the bus, a desired drop-off time, and a drop-off allowable additional time period for designating a desired drop-off time slot. The center determines an operation schedule for operating the bus, in consideration of a combination of the desired boarding time slots and the desired drop-off time slots within respective pieces of information, so that the plurality of users each get on the bus at the desired boarding location within the desired boarding time slot and get off the bus at the desired drop-off location within the desired drop-off time slot | 2015-06-11 |
20150161534 | EVENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods including a server based network that can store event and event ticket request information. An interactive list of available event tickets can be displayed on a remote computer to manage electronic requests for event tickets. Electronic messages associated with the ticket requests can be sent electronically to one or more administrators for disposition of the event ticket request. Further electronic messages may be sent based on an administrator's grant or deny disposition of the request. Reminder and availability messages may be sent. Usage and requester data can be tracked. Groups of requesters may be identified to control various messages and the display of request information. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161535 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAPPING MEDICAL GUIDELINES TO CLINICAL WORKFLOWS AND LOGISTICAL OPERATIONS - A system for automating coordinated care management by mapping medical guidelines to clinical workflows and logistical operations may be provided. The system may include a mapping system, a medical guidelines database, a clinical workflow database and a logistical workflow database. The mapping system may receive medical guidelines from the medical guidelines database, generate clinical workflows to be stored in the clinical workflow database, and generate logistical workflows to be stored in the logistical workflow database. The logistical workflows can be generated from clinical workflows or directly from medical guidelines. The system may include a communications system that automatically manages communications between participants in a healthcare system using computer code generated based on the logistical workflows. The system may also monitor patient response and outcome information in order to yield predictive patient engagement efficiencies to address current fragmentation and inefficiencies of care coordination. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161536 | SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOW EXECUTION ENGINE - Provided are methods and systems for computer-implemented event-driven management of scientific workflows. An event-driven management engine for scientific workflows may comprise a decision node configured to determine that at least one condition within a scientific workflow is true by running a conditional loop. Based on the determination, the decision node may selectively activate a computational module. The event-driven management engine for scientific workflows may further comprise a fork-join queuing cluster. The fork-join queuing cluster may allocate the computational module non-sequentially to participant computational nodes in a distributed cloud computing environment and process a data set according to predetermined criteria. A distributed database of the event-driven management engine for scientific workflows may store the computational modules and conditions associated with the at least one computational module. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161537 | SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOW DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM - Provided are methods and systems for scientific workflow distribution. A digital scientific workflow distribution platform comprises a user interface configured to allow a user to select a scientific workflow based on one or more parameters associated with the scientific workflow. Based on the selection, a distribution module enables acquiring the scientific workflow and importing the scientific workflow into a user environment. The digital scientific workflow distribution platform further comprises a management engine for scientific workflows configured to support development of the scientific workflow imported into the user environment. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161538 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING RISK THROUGH A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method for assessing risk through a social network includes receiving user social network data, generating a risk map from the user social network data, and calculating a risk assessment based on the risk map and the user social network data. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161539 | DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PROJECT MANAGERS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A decision support system is presented for generating data pertaining to solutions to constrained project management scenarios. The system comprises: a scenario generator for generating project management scenarios, a feasible solution generator for generating solutions to constrained project management scenarios, a scenario simulator for interactively simulating project management scenarios in a stochastic environment, and a database for storing historical data generated by the scenario simulator. Methods are presented for using the decision support system as a tutorial mechanism and as a data gathering mechanism for supporting project managers. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161540 | Automatic Road Condition Detection - Monitoring road conditions and prioritizing and/or requesting real-time repair work performed, such as weather-related repair work to address “fixable conditions.” Some embodiments perform the following actions (not necessarily in the following order): (i) monitoring machines connected in data communication to a communication network, covering multiple roads, in a common local area (such as a city), respectively for a “fixable condition”; (ii) detecting multiple fixable conditions on the multiple roads; and (iii) creating, by machine logic and based in part on the detected fixable conditions, an initial prioritized schedule for application of road maintenance resources to the roads. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161541 | Processing and Routing Referrals - Methods and systems for processing and routing referrals, particularly referrals of customers between lines of business, subsidiaries, and other related entities of a large organization, such as a financial institution, are presented. In some embodiments, a computer system may receive a referral from a source system associated with a line of business of an organization. Based on receiving the referral, the computer system may enrich the referral by gathering available information about a customer associated with the referral. Subsequently, the computer system may identify a destination for the referral by processing the referral based on one or more business rules and one or more compliance requirements. The computer system then may route the referral to the identified destination. In some instances, gathering available information about the customer may include collecting internal information about the customer's existing relationship with the organization. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161542 | INTEGRATION BETWEEN PROJECT PLANNING SYSTEM AND BUSINESS SYSTEM - A project management system receives project planning inputs from a user, to create and plan a project. It receives a publication input, publishing the project, to a business system and receives financial and operational reference data from the business system. It also receives resource data from the business system and provides a resource user interface display that allows a user to staff the project with resources received from the business system. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161543 | PREDICTING RENTAL CAR AVAILABILITY - Navigation devices in rental vehicles are used to assist in predicting the probability of when each car will be returned to the car rental company. The probability of each car being returned is based upon is location relative to the return facility, direction of travel, and whether the navigation device is currently routed to the return facility. It is not necessary to predict accurately when a specific car will be returned, although one could implement it that way. Rather, this is primarily a statistical prediction over a large number of vehicles that will inform the car rental company how many vehicles of each type will be returned at a given time. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161544 | Procurement Demand Capturing - Dynamic routing of a procurement request from a single point of entry to a downstream repository is provided based on intelligence data analytics at the point of entry. The point of entry functions as a front end to receive, process, and route all procurement requests, with the back end to support the routed request. Request information is entered at the front end, with the single point of entry processing the request through appropriate channels in the procurement process. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161545 | VISUALIZATION OF SPARE PARTS INVENTORY - A system, method and program product for analyzing demand data from an inventory database. A inventory demand analysis system is described having: a system for accessing an inventory database of item data, wherein the item data includes a historical demand for items characterized with intermittent demand; a demand pattern association system that analyzes the historical demand to calculate a set of coincidence probabilities for pairs of items in the inventory database; and a graphical representation system for generating a visual representation of a demand structure of the inventory database based on the set of coincidence probabilities. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161546 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A CONFIGURABLE WORKFLOW APPLICATION - A method for providing a customizable workflow process is provided. The method includes receiving, via a network, a request from a user, wherein the request comprises at least an entity ID associated with the user and an application ID associated with the workflow process, obtaining, by a processor, a step related to the workflow process from a database, based on the request, wherein the step comprises at least a step count identifier and step information, executing, by the processor, the step based on the step information to generate step results, determining, by the processor, based on the step results and an incremental step counter, a subsequent step to be executed in the workflow process, and storing, by the processor, the results of the workflow process. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161547 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO DEFINE AND EXECUTE CUSTOMER DECLARATIVE BUSINESS RULES TO EXTEND BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for defining and executing custom business rules to influence or control execution of a business process and allowing software providers to deliver externally extensible business applications which in turn allow customers of those applications to implement their own business rules and conditions using a browser based UI, without modifying the actual code in the base application. A user interface (UI) based business rule configurator allows users to define business rules and conditions that can be executed by a rules engine integrated with the client extensions and no custom code is required for business users to extend the business logic and no future custom code maintenance is required. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161548 | RETAIL SALES PLANNING CURVE MODIFICATION - A system that modifies an input sales planning curve that is a time series expands the time series from an initial length time series to an expanded length time series that includes one or more missing values. The system then fills in the missing values using linear interpolation and samples the expanded time series by selecting a subset of the expanded length time series values. The system then drops the values not selected during the sampling to generate an output sales planning curve. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161549 | PREDICTING OUTCOMES OF A MODELED SYSTEM USING DYNAMIC FEATURES ADJUSTMENT - Techniques are disclosed for predicting outcomes of a system modeled on analytical data related to website-related metrics by dynamically adjusting one or more input or output variables. A regularized singular value decomposition technique can be used to estimate missing data. The completed data set can be used to model the performance of the website and to predict various outcomes by changing one or more of the input or output variables. The effect of varying one or more input variables on an output variable can be computed using regression analysis and/or a Random Forests® framework to estimate the relationships between the variables in the model. The effect of specific changes to one or more input variables on one or more output variables can be computed. The amount of change to an input variable needed to achieve a specific change in an output variable can be computed using regression analysis. | 2015-06-11 |
20150161550 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A DISCUSSION THREAD TO KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR INFORMATION - Systems and methods for providing a discussion thread to key performance indicator information displayed on a dashboard are disclosed. The system may include a renderer for rendering a dashboard displaying a key performance indicator value corresponding to at least one business value. The system may also include a comment module that is configured to: receive a comment corresponding to the displayed key performance indicator value, and generate a discussion thread including the received comment. The generated dashboard can then be rendered by the renderer in association with the displayed key performance indicator value. In some cases, the discussion thread can include a plurality of related comments. | 2015-06-11 |