25th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 73 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100161299 | DIAGNOSTIC SUPPORT APPARATUS FOR DIABETES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The present invention is to present a diagnostic support apparatus for diabetes including a diagnostic support information generating unit which generates diagnostic support information of a patient based on a biological model for reproducing a pseudo-response which simulates a result of a glucose tolerance test for the patient. The biological model comprises a plurality of simulated organ blocks which are configured in such manner that inflow and outflow of glucose and/or inflow and outflow of insulin are reciprocally produced between each of the simulated organ blocks. The plurality of the simulated organ blocks respectively calculate at least one of a cumulative quantity and a concentration of glucose and/or at least one of a cumulative quantity and a concentration of insulin in the respective simulated organ blocks, based on a quantity of inflow and outflow of glucose and/or a quantity of inflow and outflow of insulin in the respective simulated organ blocks. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161300 | System and method for forecasting production from a hydrocarbon reservoir - A system and method is taught to substantially automate forecasting for a hydrocarbon producing reservoir through integration of modeling module workflows. A control management module automatically generates static and dynamic offspring models, with static and dynamic modeling software, until a performance objective associated with the forecasting of the reservoir is satisfied. The performance objective can include an experimental design table to determine a sensitivity of a particular parameter or can be directed towards reservoir optimization, i.e., ultimate hydrocarbon recovery, net present value, reservoir percentage yield, reservoir fluid flow rate, or history matching error. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161301 | Techniques for Purposing a New Compound and for Re-Purposing a Drug - A method for repurposing a pharmaceutical compound. The method includes identifying a pharmaceutical compound, the pharmaceutical compound corresponding to a drug that has failed in clinical development or an approved drug. A mathematical model describing the physiological processes related to at least one disease and the effects of the pharmaceutical compound on the disease is created. The model is adjusted based upon information from preclinical or clinical trials. A new treatment protocol is suggested to salvage the failed drug or a new way to use an approved drug. The suggested treatment protocol is displayed. Systems and computer program products encompassing the above techniques are also disclosed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161302 | Method For Predicting Petroleum Expulsion - A method for predicting petroleum production is provided. An exemplary embodiment of the method comprises computing a first approximation of an amount of generated petroleum that is retained with a complex organic product using a Threshold and a Maximum Retention value. The exemplary method also comprises revising the first approximation by approximating a process of chemical fractionation using at least one partition factor to create a revised approximation and predicting petroleum production based on the revised approximation. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161303 | METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND USER INTERFACE FOR PERFORMING POWER INFERENCE - An improved method, system, user interface, and computer program product is described for performing power-related inferences for an electronic design. According to some approaches, the electronic design is configured to include multiple power domains. Design information is used to infer the existence of power-management structures for and between the power domains in the electronic design. A graphical user interface is provided to visualize the inferred power-related structures and to allow the user to interact with and modify the design information related to power management. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161304 | METHOD OF INTERCONNECT CHECKING AND VERIFICATION FOR MULTIPLE ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE SPECIFICATIONS - A method for designing a semiconductor device circuit comprising a electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit can include device simulations using at least one, for example two or more ESD models, and designing device features such that they are resilient to damage from the two or more ESD testing models. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161305 | PERFORMANCE EVALUATION DEVICE, PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD AND SIMULATION PROGRAM - A performance evaluation device includes: a control timing model unit for outputting a timing for inputting a control signal input/output between plural function blocks contained in a simulation model corresponding to a hardware; a control signal transfer period calculation unit for calculating a transfer period of the control signal between the plural function blocks in accordance with the timing for inputting the control signal; a data timing model unit for outputting a timing for inputting a data signal corresponding to the control signal, which is input/output between the plural function blocks; and a data signal transfer period calculation unit for calculating a transfer period of the data signal between the plural function blocks in accordance with the timing for inputting the data signal. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161306 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMULATING A DESIGN UNDER TEST ASSOCIATED WITH A TEST ENVIRONMENT - The method of emulating the design under test associated with a test environment comprises two distinct generating phases comprising a first phase of generating ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100161307 | SOFTWARE HEALTH MANAGEMENT TESTBED - A testbed for testing health of software includes an input model, a hardware model, and a resource modeler. The input model represents an input system used in conjunction with the software. The hardware model represents one or more hardware components used in conjunction with the software. The resource modeler is coupled to the input model and the hardware model, and is configured to estimate effects on the software of conditions of the hardware components, the input system, or both. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161308 | Multi-structured memory - Multi-structured memory is described, including a first memory configured to emulate a first memory type, a second memory configured to emulate a second memory type, the first and second memories disposed in one or more third dimensional memory arrays, and an interface configured to access the first memory or the second memory for data operations. The one or more third dimensional memory arrays are formed on the same component and can be fabricated BEOL on top of a substrate (e.g., a silicon wafer or other semiconductor substrates) including active circuitry (e.g., CMOS devices) fabricated FEOL and operative to perform data operations on the memory arrays and to communicate with external systems configured to access the memory arrays. The third dimensional memory(s) can include two-terminal non-volatile re-writeable cross-point memory arrays including two-terminal non-volatile re-writeable memory cells having their respective terminals electrically coupled with a pair of conductive array lines. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161309 | Apparatus and Methods Thereof for Configuration and Control of a System-On-Chip Emulation Platform - An apparatus, protocol and methods for configuration of a platform for prototyping and emulation of a system-on-chip (SOC) device. The apparatus is an extensible platform for configurable prototyping of SOCs using an integrated circuit board comprised of a configurable board controller and a plurality of configurable modules which implement the SOC functionality. A plurality of such platform boards may be linked together to provide emulation and prototyping functionality for a multi-core system. The protocol specifies the SOC platform configuration data, commands for configuration and reading and writing data to each module and the communications between the host computer and the platform. The apparatus uses methods for configurable execution of the configuration commands by the board controller, and for the preparation of the configuration specification by the host computer. The host computer provides a user interface for management of the configuration specification preparation. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161310 | TWO-WAY TRANSLATOR STRUCTURE - A two-way translator structure comprises a body having a front surface and a rear surface, and a control circuit installed inside the body and having translation software. The front surface has a display, a voice pick-up element, a voice-output element, and buttons. The rear surface has a display, a voice pick-up element, and a voice-output element. The lateral side of the body has a USB adapter and a memory card adapter. Two persons in dialogue may respectively speak to the voice pick-up elements on the front and rear surfaces. The control circuit translates the speech into another language. The voice-output elements on the front and rear surfaces output the translation voice, and the displays on the front and rear surfaces present the translation text. The translation is stored to a computer via the USB adapter. The user may plug in different memory cards to translate different languages. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161311 | Method, apparatus and system for location assisted translation - A method, apparatus and system may enhance translation results from translation applications running on mobile devices. Specifically, according to one embodiment, location data may be automatically identified by a location awareness or location detection scheme (e.g., Global Positioning System or GPS, WiFi and/or 3G) on the device or coupled to the device. The location data may be utilized by the enhanced translation scheme according to an embodiment of the invention to pin point the specific physical geographical location of the device. Thereafter, if an enhanced local language dictionary exists that includes any local dialect details, the enhanced local language dictionary may be downloaded to the device. When the user desires to translate a word and/or phrase, the device may look up the meaning in the downloaded enhanced local language dictionary, thus ensuring that the translation is specific to that geographic location. When the user moves locations, the device may download additional “local” language dictionaries, such that the user may accurately translate words even when moving amongst regions with significantly varying meaning for the same words. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161312 | Method of semantic, syntactic and/or lexical correction, corresponding corrector, as well as recording medium and computer program for implementing this method - The method is suitable for dysorthographic or partially sighted persons, to facilitate the semantic, syntactic and/or lexical correction of an erroneous expression in a digital text input by a user. The method comprises the sequence of: a step ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100161313 | Region-Matching Transducers for Natural Language Processing - Computer methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for developing a region-matching transducer for marking language data having delimited strings. The region-matching transducer defines one or more patterns of one or more sequences of delimited strings, with at least one of the patterns defined in the region-matching transducer having an arrangement of a plurality of class-matching networks. The plurality of class-matching networks defines a combination of two or more entity classes from one or both of part-of-speech classes and application-specific classes. The region-matching transducer has, for each of the one or more patterns, an arc that leads from a penultimate state with a transition label that identifies the entity class of the pattern, and shares states between patterns leading to a penultimate state when segments of delimited strings making up two or more patterns overlap. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161314 | Region-Matching Transducers for Text-Characterization - Computer methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for text-characterization using a finite state transducer that along each path accepts on a first side an n-gram of text-characterization (e.g., a language or a topic) and outputs on a second side a sequence of symbols identifying one or more text-characterizations from a set of text-characterizations. The finite state transducer is applied to input data. For each n-gram accepted by the finite state transducer, a frequency counter associated with the n-gram of the one or more text-characterizations in the set of text-characterizations is incremented. The input data is classified as one or more text-characterizations from the set of text-characterizations using the frequency counters associated therewith. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161315 | CORRELATED CALL ANALYSIS - A method of correlating received communication data with operational communication characteristics is provided. The method includes receiving audible input from a source in a communication over a communications network, recording the received audible input, and transcribing the recorded audible input into a transcript. The method further includes outputting the transcript, specifying features of the transcript to be analyzed, specifying and recording operational communication characteristics particular to the communication, analyzing the transcript for the specified features to identify patterns associated with the audible input, computing statistical correlations of the identified patterns with the operational communication characteristics, and outputting results of the computed statistical correlations on a user interface. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161316 | PROBABILISTIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING USING A LIKELIHOOD VECTOR - A method for natural language processing on a computing device is described. The computing device receives a free text document. The computing device parses the free text document for gross structure. The gross structure includes sections, paragraphs and sentences. The computing device determines an application of at least one knowledge base. The free text document is parsed for fine structure on the computing device. The fine structure includes sub-sentences. The computing device applies the parsed document and at least one likelihood vector to a Bayesian network. The computing device outputs meanings and probabilities. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161317 | SEMANTIC NETWORK METHODS TO DISAMBIGUATE NATURAL LANGUAGE MEANING - A computer implemented data processor system automatically disambiguates a contextual meaning of natural language symbols to enable precise meanings to be stored for later retrieval from a natural language database, so that natural language database design is automatic, to enable flexible and efficient natural language interfaces to computers, household appliances and hand-held devices. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161318 | Systems and Methods of Building and Using Custom Word Lists - Standard word lists that are often used for such operations as predictive text, spell checking, and word completion are based on general linguistic data that might not accurately reflect actual text usage patterns of particular users. Systems and methods of building and using a custom word list for use in text operations on an electronic device are provided. A collection of text items associated with a user of the electronic device is scanned to identify words in the text items. A weighting is then assigned to each identified word, and the words and corresponding weightings are stored. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161319 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMPLEX SPECTRAL REPRESENTATION OF A DISCRETE-TIME SIGNAL - A filter bank device for generating a complex spectral representation of a discrete-time signal includes a generator for generating a block-wise real spectral representation, which, for example, implements an MDCT, to obtain temporally successive blocks of real spectral coefficients. The output values of this spectral conversion device are fed to a post-processor for post-processing the block-wise real spectral representation to obtain an approximated complex spectral representation having successive blocks, each block having a set of complex approximated spectral coefficients, wherein a complex approximated spectral coefficient can be represented by a first partial spectral coefficient and by a second partial spectral coefficient, wherein at least one of the first and second partial spectral coefficients is determined by combining at least two real spectral coefficients. A good approximation for a complex spectral representation of the discrete-time signal is obtained by combining two real spectral coefficients, preferably by a weighted linear combination, wherein additionally more degrees of freedom for optimizing the entire system are available. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161320 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE SUB-BAND ALLOCATION OF SPECTRAL COEFFICIENTS - An apparatus and method for adaptive sub-band allocation of spectral coefficients are disclosed. The sizes of sub-bands are determined according to the distribution of spectral coefficients transformed from an input speech/audio signal to perform more elaborate quantization in units of sub-bands. Thus, quantization noise of the spectral coefficients is reduced, and sound quality in a frequency region is enhanced, thereby improving the quality of the signal. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161321 | SAMPLING RATE CONVERSION APPARATUS, CODING APPARATUS, DECODING APPARATUS AND METHODS THEREOF - A coding apparatus reduces a circuit scale and the amount of coding processing calculation. A frequency domain conversion section performs a frequency analysis of the signal sampled at a sampling rate Fx with an analysis length of 2·Na and calculates first spectrum S | 2010-06-24 |
20100161322 | ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUSES FOR IMPROVING SOUND QUALITY OF G.711 CODEC - An encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus for reducing the quantization error of a G.711 codec and improving sound quality are provided. The encoding apparatus includes a G.711 encoder which generates a G.711 bitstream by encoding an input audio signal; an enhancement-layer encoder which chooses one of a static bit allocation method and a dynamic bit allocation method that can produce less quantization error based on the input audio signal and the G.711 bitstream, and outputs an enhancement-layer bitstream including encoded additional mantissa information obtained by using the chosen bit allocation method; and a multiplexer which multiplexes the G.711 bitstream and the enhancement-layer bitstream. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the quantization error of a G.711 codec and improve sound quality. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161323 | AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE, AUDIO DECODING DEVICE, AND THEIR METHOD - Provided is an audio encoding device capable of preventing audio quality degradation of a decoded signal. In the audio encoding device, a noise analysis unit ( | 2010-06-24 |
20100161324 | NOISE DETECTION APPARATUS, NOISE REMOVAL APPARATUS, AND NOISE DETECTION METHOD - A noise detection apparatus includes a time-frequency transform unit configured to transform an input signal from a time domain to a frequency domain to produce a spectrum, a power spectrum calculating unit configured to obtain powers of frequencies from the spectrum, a peak stationarity detecting unit configured to use peaks of the powers of frequencies in each frame to detect frequencies at which a stationary peak of the powers exists, a power stationarity detecting unit configured to use magnitudes of the powers of frequencies in each frame to detect frequencies at which the magnitudes of the powers are stationary, and a check unit configured to use the frequencies detected by the peak stationarity detecting unit and the frequencies detected by the power stationarity detecting unit to check whether there is a noise that has at least one of peak stationarity and power stationarity in the frequency domain. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161325 | Individual Codec Pathway Impairment Indicator for use in a Communication System - A system and method are described for controlling the setup of a connection in a communication network that includes a set of nodes, such as Mobile Switching Centers (MSCs) and Media Gateways (MGWs). In one example, a speech connection is established between MGWs subject to the control of the MSCs, which can selectively activate or deactivate codecs along the connection. The codecs are selected from a list of supported codecs, each potentially affecting connection quality by differing amounts. A Total Accumulated Impairment (TAI) element is forwarded between the MSCs and step by step updated by these MSCs that includes individual partially accumulated impairment values corresponding to each of the supported codec candidates. Each individual indicator value provides information representative of the expected accumulated impairment along a candidate connection path leading up to, and including, the corresponding codec. By providing information pertaining to the expected accumulated impairment along each candidate connection path, the MSCs can determine an optimum sequence of codecs so as to minimize the overall connection impairment. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161326 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A speech recognition system includes: a speed level classifier for measuring a moving speed of a moving object by using a noise signal at an initial time of speech recognition to determine a speed level of the moving object; a first speech enhancement unit for enhancing sound quality of an input speech signal of the speech recognition by using a Wiener filter, if the speed level of the moving object is equal to or lower than a specific level; and a second speech enhancement unit enhancing the sound quality of the input speech signal by using a Gaussian mixture model, if the speed level of the moving object is higher than the specific level. The system further includes an end point detection unit for detecting start and end points, an elimination unit for eliminating sudden noise components based on a sudden noise Gaussian mixture model. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161327 | SYSTEM-EFFECTED METHODS FOR ANALYZING, PREDICTING, AND/OR MODIFYING ACOUSTIC UNITS OF HUMAN UTTERANCES FOR USE IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION - A computer-implemented method for automatically analyzing, predicting, and/or modifying acoustic units of prosodic human speech utterances for use in speech synthesis or speech recognition. Possible steps include: initiating analysis of acoustic wave data representing the human speech utterances, via the phase state of the acoustic wave data; using one or more phase state defined acoustic wave metrics as common elements for analyzing, and optionally modifying, pitch, amplitude, duration, and other measurable acoustic parameters of the acoustic wave data, at predetermined time intervals; analyzing acoustic wave data representing a selected acoustic unit to determine the phase state of the acoustic unit; and analyzing the acoustic wave data representing the selected acoustic unit to determine at least one acoustic parameter of the acoustic unit with reference to the determined phase state of the selected acoustic unit. Also included are systems for implementing the described and related methods. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161328 | Utterance Processing For Network-Based Speech Recognition Utilizing A Client-Side Cache - Embodiments are provided for utilizing a client-side cache for utterance processing to facilitate network based speech recognition. An utterance comprising a query is received in a client computing device. The query is sent from the client to a network server for results processing. The utterance is processed to determine a speech profile. A cache lookup is performed based on the speech profile to determine whether results data for the query is stored in the cache. If the results data is stored in the cache, then a query is sent to cancel the results processing on the network server and the cached results data is displayed on the client computing device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161329 | VITERBI DECODER AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD USING SAME - A Viterbi decoder includes: an observation vector sequence generator for generating an observation vector sequence by converting an input speech to a sequence of observation vectors; a local optimal state calculator for obtaining a partial state sequence having a maximum similarity up to a current observation vector as an optimal state; an observation probability calculator for obtaining, as a current observation probability, a probability for observing the current observation vector in the optimal state; a buffer for storing therein a specific number of previous observation probabilities; a non-linear filter for calculating a filtered probability by using the previous observation probabilities stored in the buffer and the current observation probability; and a maximum likelihood calculator for calculating a partial maximum likelihood by using the filtered probability. The filtered probability may be a maximum value, a mean value or a median value of the previous observation probabilities and the current observation probability. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161330 | SPEECH MODELS GENERATED USING COMPETITIVE TRAINING, ASYMMETRIC TRAINING, AND DATA BOOSTING - Speech models are trained using one or more of three different training systems. They include competitive training which reduces a distance between a recognized result and a true result, data boosting which divides and weights training data, and asymmetric training which trains different model components differently. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161331 | Method for Preparing Information for a Speech Dialogue System - In many application environments, it is desirable to provide voice access to tables on Internet pages, where the user asks a subject-related question in a natural language and receives an adequate answer from the table read out to him in a natural language. A method is disclosed for preparing information presented in a tabular form for a speech dialogue system so that the information of the table can be consulted in a user dialogue in a targeted manner. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161332 | TRAINING WIDEBAND ACOUSTIC MODELS IN THE CEPSTRAL DOMAIN USING MIXED-BANDWIDTH TRAINING DATA FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - A method and apparatus are provided that use narrowband data and wideband data to train a wideband acoustic model. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161333 | ADAPTIVE PERSONAL NAME GRAMMARS - In one embodiment, an adaptive personal name grammar improves speech recognition by limiting or weighting the scope of potential addressable names based upon meta-information relative to the communications patterns, environmental considerations, or sociological/professional hierarchy of a user to increase the likelihood of a positive match. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161334 | UTTERANCE VERIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ISOLATED WORD N-BEST RECOGNITION RESULT - An utterance verification method for an isolated word N-best speech recognition result includes: calculating log likelihoods of a context-dependent phoneme and an anti-phoneme model based on an N-best speech recognition result for an input utterance; measuring a confidence score of an N-best speech-recognized word using the log likelihoods; calculating distance between phonemes for the N-best speech-recognized word; comparing the confidence score with a threshold and the distance with a predetermined mean of distances; and accepting the N-best speech-recognized word when the compared results for the confidence score and the distance correspond to acceptance. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161335 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A RELEVANT UTTERANCE - A method and apparatus for detecting use of an utterance. A voice session including voice signals generated during a conversation between a first participant and a second participant is monitored by a speech analytics processor. The speech analytics processor detects the use of an utterance. A speech recognition processor channel selected from a pool of speech recognition processor channels and is coupled to the voice session. The speech recognition processor provided speech recognition services to a voice-enabled application. The speech recognition processor channel is then decoupled from the voice session. The speech analytics processor continues to monitor the conversation for subsequent use of the utterance. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. The method includes dividing a system dialog turn into segments based on timing of probable user responses, generating a weighted grammar for each segment, exclusively activating the weighted grammar generated for a current segment of the dialog turn during the current segment of the dialog turn, and recognizing user speech received during the current segment using the activated weighted grammar generated for the current segment. The method can further include assigning probability to the weighted grammar based on historical user responses and activating each weighted grammar is based on the assigned probability. Weighted grammars can be generated based on a user profile. A weighted grammar can be generated for two or more segments. Exclusively activating each weighted grammar can include a transition period blending the previously activated grammar and the grammar to be activated. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH WITH DIALECT GRAMMARS - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for recognizing speech. The method includes receiving speech from a user, perceiving at least one speech dialect in the received speech, selecting at least one grammar from a plurality of optimized dialect grammars based on at least one score associated with the perceived speech dialect and the perceived at least one speech dialect, and recognizing the received speech with the selected at least one grammar. Selecting at least one grammar can be further based on a user profile. Multiple grammars can be blended. Predefined parameters can include pronunciation differences, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Optimized dialect grammars can be domain specific. The method can further include recognizing initial received speech with a generic grammar until an optimized dialect grammar is selected. Selecting at least one grammar from a plurality of optimized dialect grammars can be based on a certainty threshold. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161338 | METHOD FOR CREATING A VIRTUAL FENCE USING A DEVICE WITH VOICE SIGNATURE PROCESSING AND GEOGRAPHIC LOCATOR CAPABILITY - A client device for creating a virtual fence includes a locator that determines a location of the client device. The client device includes a receiver that receives speech data and transmits the speech data to a speech processor that isolates an individual voice signature from the speech data. The client device includes a profile storage that stores profile information of a user of the client device. The client device includes an alarm generator that generates an alarm based on the isolated individual voice signature and the location of the client device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161339 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A VEHICULAR ELECTRONIC SYSTEM WITH VOICE COMMAND CAPABILITY - Methods and systems for operating an avionics system with voice command capability are provided. A first voice command is received. A first type of avionics system function is performed in response to the receiving of the first voice command. A second voice command is received. A second type of avionics system function that has a hazard level higher than that of the first type of avionics system function is performed in response to the receiving of the second voice command only after a condition is detected that is indicative of a confirmation of the request to perform the second type of avionics function. The avionics system may also have the capability to test whether or not the voice command feature is functioning properly. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161340 | Dynamic Codec Switching - In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for processing an audio signal are provided. In one example of the invention, an audio signal is received. The audio signal is analyzed to determine an interference level of the audio signal relative to a threshold interference level. Then the audio signal is processed with a lower quality codec or a higher quality codec responsive to the determination of the interference level of the audio signal relative to the threshold interference level. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161341 | DISCRIMINATOR FOR DISCRIMINATING EMPLOYED MODULATION TECHNIQUE, SIGNAL DEMODULATOR, MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF DISCRIMINATION - A signal modulator includes a discriminator for discriminating a modulation technique through which a carrier signal was modulated to a quasi audio signal and a signal demodulation module for reproducing a continuous data stream from the quasi audio signal through a demodulating technique corresponding to the discriminated modulation technique; the discriminator includes a sampling circuit for extracting groups of samples from the quasi audio signal during each period of the carrier signal, an integrator calculating an integrated value on each group of samples, a comparator comparing the integrated value with a threshold for a neighborhood of zero so as to determine the groups of samples with the integrated value less than the threshold and a determiner measuring the time period between the groups of two modulation period and discriminating 16DPSK when the time period is equal to the modulation period. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161342 | CODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In order to obtain coded data which does not strike viewers and listeners as being incongruous, when plural audio data are to be coded, a coding program groups the respective audio data into one audio data, codes the grouped audio data in sequence with a predetermined number of samples being treated as units, and sets delimitations corresponding to the delimitations of the plural audio data in the coded data at coding units of the coded data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161343 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF OBTAINING DIAGNOSTIC DATA FROM A DEVICE AT A REMOTE LOCATION - A system and method of obtaining diagnostic data from a device at a remote location in one embodiment includes establishing a communications link between a service location and a customer location remote from the service location, transmitting first diagnostic data from a device at the customer location over the communications link, receiving the first diagnostic data at the service location, generating an action request at the service location in response to the received first diagnostic data, transmitting the action request to the customer location, receiving the action request at the customer location, authorizing the received action request, obtaining second diagnostic data associated with the action request from the device, and transmitting the second diagnostic data to the service location. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161344 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PREPARE REPORT REQUESTS - Example methods and apparatus to prepare report requests are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a request to generate a report, the request associated with selection criteria, receiving a report specification associated with the selection criteria, and parsing the report specification to identify a report directive. The example method also includes querying a report directive library to retrieve instructions associated with the identified report directive, executing the retrieved instructions to modify the report specification based on the selection criteria, and generating an output including the modified report specification. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161345 | MEDICAL DATA TRACKING, ANALYSIS AND AGGREGATION SYSTEM - A medical item tracking method including storing inventory levels of items which are for use in medical procedures and receiving input for reserving the use of a facility for a medical procedure, which medical procedure is projected to use at least one of the inventoried items. The input identifies at least one individual projected to participate in the medical procedure. The method further includes retrieving data relating to the predicted usage of the inventoried item in the medical procedure, wherein the data is based upon the participation of the at least one individual. The method further includes adjusting the levels of inventory based upon the retrieved predicted usage data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161346 | Systems and Methods for Providing Bolus Dosage Recommendations - A method of providing bolus dosage recommendations for diabetics includes presenting a plurality of representative foods to a user. The user's response to estimate a carbohydrate value for each one of the plurality of representative foods is received. An input is then received from the user indicating a food to be consumed and an estimated carbohydrate value for the food to be consumed. A bolus dosage recommendation is calculated based on the input from the user and the user's response to estimate the carbohydrate value for at least one of the plurality of representative foods. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161347 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING FUTURE MEDICAL EPISODES - A computer-implemented method of generating future medical episodic simulations is provided. The method includes generating a personal wellness lifestyle signature for an individual based upon pre-selected data pertinent to wellness of the individual. Additionally, the method includes comparing the personal wellness lifestyle signature of the individual with at least one personal wellness lifestyle signature of at least one other individual determined to have at least one wellness characteristic similar to a corresponding wellness characteristic of the individual. The method further includes predicting at least one future medical episode corresponding to the individual based upon the comparison. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161348 | Clinical Management System - A system that receives a portion of the content of a clinical note in an active first field, switching the active first field to be inactive, searching at least one database based on the content of the clinical note, wherein searching is triggered upon switching the active first field to be inactive, and presenting one or more relevant results resulting from searching the at least one database on the clinical note. A clinical note system is also described that has client registration module, an insurance billing module and a clinical notes module. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161349 | Health services delivery system with incentives - A system of health care service and an associated method of the administration thereof to a plurality of subscribers including a providing entity organizationally structured to implement a health care program which includes categorizing subscribers desirous of health care service, including preventative services, into a plurality of predetermined profiles. The profiles are defined by personal characteristics including age, gender, clinical history, etc. and each profile is associated with a predetermined curative or preventative treatment regimen with which a respective subscriber is expected to comply. An incentive system is implemented to motivate the subscribers into compliance with the assigned treatment regimen and comprises the assignment of credits and penalties based on a degree of compliance with the treatment regimen. Valuable consideration is awarded to the subscriber evidencing a satisfactory degree of compliance. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161350 | TREATMENT REGIMEN COMPLIANCE AND EFFICACY WITH FEEDBACK - A method and system for interaction with a community of individuals, relating to compliance with and effectiveness of treatment regimens, including supply and use of pharmaceuticals, using a protocol or other intelligent message which acts in place of a service provider and which is capable of collecting or imparting information to patients in place thereof. Individuals interact with the protocol or intelligent message to provide assistance in all aspects of treatment regimen compliance, data collection, supply or delivery, review and modification. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161351 | System for Pre-Processing Drug Benefit Claims According to Processed Drug Lists - A method of processing drug claims, by: (a) receiving a claim; (b) sorting the claim for processing by determining which processed drug list the claim belongs with; and then (c) processing the claim according to the particular processed drug list to which the claim belongs. A hierarchy of drug lists are used in a preferred order. If the drug is found on the first drug list, the system then moves directly to the processing stage. However, if the drug is not found on the first list, the system checks whether the drug is on the second drug list. If the drug is found on the second drug list, the system then moves directly to the processing stage etc. Preferably, the drug list hierarchy is as follows: (i) home infusion drug list; (ii) drug only listed as a Medicare Part B drug list; (iii) drug listed as either Medicare Part B or D drug list; (iv) required special class drug list; (v) nebulized drug list; (vi) over the counter drug list; (vii) Medicare statutorily excluded non-Part D drug list; (viii) enhanced benefit system drug list; (ix) Medicare Part D or Medicare Part D covered under an enhanced benefit drug list, and (x) a vaccine drug list. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161352 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HEALTHCARE SERVICES BASED ON INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION - A system and method for providing healthcare services in a ubiquitous environment are disclosed. In order to synthetically manage healthcare related information as well as provide desired healthcare services using an IPTV, an IPTV data center and an IPTV communication network, the system includes at least one health device, a healthcare set-top mounted on the IPTV, and a healthcare server installed at an IPTV data center. The health device collects personal health data, and transfers the collected data based on a Personal Health Device (PHD) standard. The healthcare set-top analyzes the PHD standard personal health data transferred from the at least one health device, converts the analyzed data into Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standard data, and transfers the converted CDA standard data through an IPTV communication network. The healthcare server synthetically manages the CDA standard data transferred from the healthcare set-top through the IPTV communication network. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161353 | PRESCRIPTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A wirelessly deployable, electronic prescription creation system for physician use captures into a prescription a patient condition-objective of the prescribed treatment and provides for patient record assembly from source elements, with privacy controls for patient and doctor, adverse indication review and online access to comprehensive drug information including scientific literature. Extensions to novel multi-drug packages and dispensing devices, and an “intelligent network” remote data retrieval architecture as well as onscreen physician-to-pharmacy and physician-to-physician e-mail are also provided. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING HEALTH CARE USING UNIVERSAL HEALTH PLATFORM - A health care system and method using a personal health device (PHD)-based universal health platform in a ubiquitous environment are disclosed. In order to measure health record by a PHD used by a user and automatically provide it so as to be used for various health care services via platforms, the health care system includes a measurement platform for collecting PHD standard personal health data from one or more PHDs, converting the collected data into clinical document architecture (CDA) standard data, and transmitting the converted data to an information collecting platform; and the information collecting platform for generating composite CDA standard data by using the received CDA standard data and providing the generated composite CDA standard data to services. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161355 | SINGLE FIELD ENTRY ELECTRONIC CLINICAL CHART NOTE ENTRY SYSTEM - A system and methods including a web browser (client side) single computer screen interface or mobile device single screen interface which enables the user to electronically record the clinical findings of a patient-clinician clinical encounter to create an electronic clinical chart note by entering the findings into a Single Text Field which then displays these findings in clinical chart note format, a format which emulates the format of the paper clinical chart note, without repeated submissions and communication to the server during chart note creation. The completed clinical chart note is then sent to the server for storage and retrieval. Cumulative stored electronic clinical chart notes for each individual patient constitute that patient's EMR. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161356 | Prescription Order Position Tracking System and Method - An economical prescription order tracking system automatically monitors and tracks hand-carried prescription orders through a pharmacy. The system includes a tracking tag having a unique identifier associated with it secured near the prescription order such that it travels with the order through various locations within the pharmacy. Tag reading devices are positioned at key locations throughout the pharmacy to detect the location of each tag, and its associated attached prescription order. The detected locations are compiled via a computer system and associated with the customer, such that at any given time the location of the prescription order within the pharmacy can be determined, thereby facilitating the efficient operation of the pharmacy. The time each prescription order remains at each location and worker identity information at each location can be recorded and compiled to facilitate workflow and worker efficiency monitoring of the pharmacy. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161357 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING LIQUID ASSETS AVAILABLE TO AT LEAST PARTIALLY FUND LIVING EXPENSES AT AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY - A liquid asset enhancement system includes computing apparatus operated on behalf of an underwriter and a purchase coordinator. The underwriter's apparatus receives an individual's personal, medical history, and life insurance policy information via a communication network. The underwriter's apparatus determines (i) a mortality rating based at least on the individual's medical history, (ii) a life expectancy from a mortality table based on the mortality rating and the individual's personal information, and (iii) a proposed sale value for the policy based at least on the life expectancy and the policy information. If the individual elects to sell the policy, the underwriter's apparatus communicates at least the policy information, the individual's medical history, and the proposed sale value to the purchase coordinator's apparatus via a communication network for sale completion and delivery of proceeds therefrom to a party bound to use the proceeds to pay the insured's assisted living expenses. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161358 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TICKETS AND DISPATCHES - A system and method for comparative analysis of tickets and/or dispatches including a receiver, at a baseline engine, configured to receive data associated with at least one of a product and a service corresponding to one or more tickets or dispatches, a processor, at the baseline engine, configured to generate baseline information based on the data, wherein the baseline information represents a comparative analysis of the at least one of a product and a service, and a transmitter, at the baseline engine, configured to transmit the baseline information to an output device for assessing the at least one product and service. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161359 | Risk Management for Cable Protection Via Dynamic Buffering - Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which relate to optimizing a minimum cost function associated with buried asset lines by using a GIS application to generate a “dynamic buffer” around each asset line based on a risk management algorithm. A risk management algorithm, by which a GIS application can generate a “dynamic buffer”, is employed to minimize asset line damage risk and operating costs by balancing potential costs from damage against the fixed labor costs of manually screened and located tickets. Embodiments of the invention utilize the geography of the situation as well as factors for the asset itself. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161360 | STRATEGIC PLANNING MANAGEMENT - An information technology (IT) strategic management system (and corresponding methodology) that enhances efficiency and effectiveness of IT planning processes and projects is provided. In particular aspects, the systems commence with a review of current IT state and strategy influencers. The state is analyzed to establish (or alternatively, to update) a strategy summary. The strategy summary can be presented for leadership approval and subsequently communicated to stakeholders for deployment. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161361 | PERFORMING ENTERPRISE PLANNING AND ECONOMICS ANALYSIS FOR RESERVOIR-RELATED SERVICES - To perform economics management, data relating to reservoir-related services is received from a plurality of data sources. The received data is mapped into a cube-based data structure. In response to a query, data is retrieved from the cube-based data structure. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161362 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MESSAGE-BASED CONTROL AND MONITORING OF A BUSINESS PROCESS - A system for monitoring and controlling a business process involving a plurality of workstations or/and computerized services, the system comprising apparatus for receiving messages exchanged between the plurality of workstations or computerized services and having content, and for deriving from the content of the messages, monitoring information regarding the single business process. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161363 | ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD ANNOUNCING APPARATUS, MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LOAD ANNOUNCING METHOD - An environmental-load announcing apparatus calculates, as an execution value, a value of an environmental load required by a printer to print a print target image on a sheet, sets, as a reference value, a value of an environmental load caused if the printer prints, with reference setting content, the print target image on the sheet and calculates a degree of the calculated execution value with respect to the reference value, and causes a display device to display, as a degree of effort with respect to the environmental load in the printing executed by the printer, the degree of the execution value with respect to the calculated reference value. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161364 | Make-to-Specification Process and Data Model - In various implementations, a sales order are received from a sales order requester for at least one good, wherein the sales order includes product options for ordered goods via a sales product requirement specification object. A sales order confirmation is generated at least partially based on the sales order and a plan for production of the ordered goods. The ordered goods to be produced based on the plan are allowed. And an outbound delivery request defined by a planning product requirement specification object is generated, wherein the ordered goods are delivered to the sales order requestor based on the delivery request. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161365 | DIFFERENT SALES AND PLANNING PRODUCT OPTIONS - In various implementations, sales orders are received and product requirement specifications is generated based on the sales orders. Planning for the production of the goods occurs based on the product requirement specification and the goods are produced based on the plan. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161366 | PRODUCT REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION IN PRODUCTION MODEL - In various implementations, sales orders are received and product requirement specifications is generated based on the sales orders. Planning for the production of the goods occurs based on the product requirement specification and the goods are produced based on the plan. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161367 | Customizing Online Calendar Entries - Disclosed is a method for customizing online calendar entries. A contact list for an online calendar is created including individuals and groups. An exception list is created from the individuals and/or groups on the contact list. When an online invitation is created, but not yet sent, conflict resolution tools allow the creator of the invitation to check all invitee's calendar entries for potential conflicts. A conflict resolution tool checks the calendar of an invitee for potential availability of a time corresponding to an open time slot. A conflict resolution tool responds to the online invitation with an acceptance response. A user can customize the acceptance response. The customized acceptance response is linked to the exception list. If a subsequent online invitation is received from an individual or group member on the exception list during the blocked time slot, the blocked time slot is detected as open, and scheduling of events during the blocked time slot is allowed. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161368 | MANAGING ENERGY IN A DATA CENTER - An approach that manages energy in a data center is provided. In one embodiment, there is an energy management tool, including an analysis component configured to analyze an operating state of each of a plurality of systems within a data center to determine a set of systems from the plurality of systems within the data center that is currently using energy. The energy management tool further comprises a priority component configured to prioritize a routing of a workload to the set of systems from the plurality of systems within the data center that is currently using energy. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161369 | APPLICATION OF RELATIONSHIP WEIGHTS TO SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS - A method and system for relationship weighting in social networks are provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of sources of relationship data and extracting from each source a list of connected contacts with a relationship strength for each connection. The lists of contacts from the sources are aggregated into an aggregated list, with each source having a source weighting. The aggregated list is applied to an un-weighted social network to provide relationship strengths between contacts. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161370 | PASS THROUGH FOR IMPROVED RESPONSE TIME - Method and systems of improving the response of public safety personnel to or evacuation from a desired location are provided. In addition to path information obtained through traditional sources, information is used to determine the optimal route for emergency personnel to an emergency situation and for aiding emergency personnel to route people from the situation. The information may also be used to automatically prioritize vehicles and personnel to optimize response time. Further, the information may also be used to in situations in which it is advantageous for the vehicle or personnel to be tactically positioned in nearby locations rather than at the incident scene. Although the descriptions below will primarily focus on routes to a particular location, similar methods can be used for evacuations from the location. The optimal route may use historical information stored in a database local or remote to the dispatcher and/or real-time information updated during the emergency situation. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161371 | Governance Enactment - Software systems and methods for governance are presented supporting governance solution specification and enactment including assessing, defining, implementing deployment, and executing of the governance solution. For example, a software system for governance includes a governance solution model component operative to provide at least one definition and at least one semantic of at least one governance entity and a relationship of the at least one governance entity to an operational model of an organization, a governance solution editor operative to specifying a governance solution by forming a governance specification, a governance solution bundle operative to provide packaging of the governance specification into a package that can be deployed and enacted, a governance solution enactment component operative to deploy the governance solution into an organizational context, a process enactment tool operative to provide at least one configuration point, and a governance lifecycle component operative to provide a view into a state of the governance solution. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161372 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING DATA RECORDS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF COMPUTING DEVICES - The present specification provides a method and system for coordinating data across a plurality of computing devices. In one embodiment, each computing device includes a database and personal information management application. The database maintains records that are used by the personal information management application. The personal information management application is configured to access other computing devices in order to coordinate data therebetween. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161373 | Extending Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solving - A computer-implemented method for resource management includes storing in a memory a set of resource consumers, resources for allocation to the resource consumers, and initial binary constraints applying to the allocation of the resources. Respective variables are associated with the resource consumers, and the resources are identified as values applicable to the variables. A non-binary scoring criterion is applied to generate scores on a graded scale for proposed assignments of one or more of the resources to respective ones of the resource consumers. One or more additional binary constraints are defined based on the graded scale of the scores. An assignment is found of the values to the variables that satisfies the initial and additional binary constraints using a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) solver running on a processor that is coupled to the memory. The resources are assigned to the resource consumers responsively to the assignment of the values to the variables. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161374 | Real-Time Quality Data and Feedback for Field Inspection Systems and Methods - A system, method and computer-readable medium for providing real-time quality data to a system that may be continuously updated and reviewed to maintain and control quality performance of the business. Quality information is imported into a database. The quality information imported to the database is analyzed and correlated to generate quality performance analytics. System information is provided to the database. Real-time root cause analysis is performed using the generated quality performance analytics and system information to identify root causes of system performance issues. The quality performance analytics is presented to users. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161375 | System and Method of Presenting an Asset Bundle Offer - A method includes identifying an asset bundle including a plurality of assets of different asset types. The method includes identifying devices that are capable of using the plurality of assets. The devices are associated with a subscriber. The method includes presenting an offer to sell the asset bundle to a first device associated with the subscriber based on asset types of the plurality of assets and based on a device type of the first device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161376 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND USING TRADE AREAS - Methods and systems are provided for determining and using market areas associated with one or more branches of a business. Market areas are determined using a combination of deterministic and probabilistic techniques. Distances are calculated between customers and associated branches and a convex hull formed containing the closest 60%. A block and a tightened block is formed of dissemination areas contained within the convex hull. Where blocks are shared between branches, dissemination areas are weighted according to the portion of customers associated with each branch. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161377 | EXPANDING A USER BASE FOR AN INFORMATION EXCHANGE SERVICE - A process for expanding a targeted service includes a subscription expansion application determining the information exchange services that an existing service user (ESU) uses. The application may then access the ESU's various contacts lists and/or address books to develop an initial list of prospective service users (PSUs). The ESU may specify which contact lists the application is authorized to access. The application may then filter the PSUs based on geographic availability of the targeted service. The application may then generate and send invitations to PSUs inviting PSUs to subscribe to the targeted service. The invitations may identify the ESU and may be sent electronically or by mail. The application may monitor new subscription requests attributable to an ESU's invitations. The ESU may be compensated by the service provider based on the number of new service requests. The compensation may include direct monetary compensation and/or reward points in an affinity program. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161378 | System and Method for Retargeting Advertisements Based on Previously Captured Relevance Data - Methods for selecting one or more advertisements based on previously captured relevance data to serve to a client system requesting a primary webpage is provided. The client displays a referring webpage having a hyperlink to the primary webpage. Upon selection of the hyperlink, the client sends a request to a content server storing the primary webpage. The content server classifies the primary webpage for content and retrieves persistent relevance information, possibly including a referrer of the primary webpage comprising a URL address of the referring webpage, a listing of other recently visited webpages, a listing of any bid phrases from previously displayed advertisements, and a listing of recent click data. The content server sends the primary webpage to the client, which includes an advertisement server request. The transaction between the content server and the advertisement server includes persistence relevance information to select advertisements to serve to the client. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161379 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR FROM TRANSACTION CARD PURCHASES - A computer-based method for predicting consumer behavior is provided. The method is performed using a computer system coupled to a database. The method includes recording consumer data in the database for each consumer of a global population of consumers including historical purchases made by each consumer using a transaction card, defining a life event by assigning spending variables to the life event, determining a sample group of consumers that are experiencing the life event based on the consumer data stored within the database with respect to the spending variables, generating a predictive model based on historical purchases made by consumers within the sample group, and applying the predictive model to predict each consumer within the global population that will experience the life event. The predictive model is applied using the computer system. A list of consumers predicted to experience the life event within a predetermined time period is output. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161380 | RATING-BASED INTERESTS IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS AND SYSTEMS - An interest in an object of interest in a given situation can be determined by determining multiple sets of probability values for specific interest levels. Each set of probability values includes a probability that a specific interest level occurs in a situation represented by a plurality of context variables each having a plurality of possible context values. Input context values are then obtained. The relevance of each one of the sets of probability values to the input context values can be determined in order to determine a projected interest level. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161381 | SEMANTICS-BASED INTERESTS IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS AND SYSTEMS - An input situation can be represented by at least a first context variable. Data that includes interest values for multiple context variables can be provided and obtained. The obtained data can include a first data pertaining to the input situation and a second data pertaining to one or more other situations. It can be determined whether the first context variable is associated with a discrete range of values or a continuous range of values. At least a portion of data pertaining to the situations can be determined to be proximate data when the first context variable is associated with a continuous range of values. Based on the input situation and the proximate data, an interest value for the first input situation can be determined as a prediction of the interest in the input situation. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161382 | Content management - A content management system can have one or more of an aggregation engine, a survey engine, a polling engine, an apparent-interest engine, an explicit-interest engine, and a results processing engine. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161383 | PROFIT OPTIMIZER - A system and method for analyzing the profitability of a company's products and services and then maximizing that profit is provided. A contribution margin per unit | 2010-06-24 |
20100161384 | System and Method for Presenting Content - A computer-implemented system and method is disclosed and described for presenting content, including but not limited to, news content, to a computer-based System User in a converted audio and/or video presentation form. In more detail, the computer-implemented system and method is for gathering news content to substantially match a System User's (reader's) interests and converting this news content into high quality audio and video presentations for consumption by the System User. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161385 | Method and System for Content Based Demographics Prediction for Websites - Systems and methods for predicting characteristics of a web user, determining a combination of websites to obtain a target demographic mix, determining a set of keywords to buy to obtain a target demographic mix, selecting websites from market research and designing websites to appeal to an audience with desired demographic characteristics. Systems and methods may include determining features of web-pages of ad-carrying, target websites, applying prediction models to the determined features of the ad-carrying, target websites to predict values of demographic attributes of the ad-carrying, target websites, receiving one or more inputs including a target demographic mix, receiving a number that indicates an amount of visitors of the ad-carrying, target websites, and determining a combination of websites that provide target demographic mix based on the predicted values of the demographic attributes and number of visitors of the ad-carrying, target websites. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161386 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISK MANAGEMENT OF SPORTS-ASSOCIATED BUSINESSES - This invention provides risk management systems and methods for enterprises associated with a wide variety of sports activities, e.g., sports having individual athlete participants as well as sports having team participants; sports activities having regional, national, or international scope; professional and non-professional sports activities; and so forth. In preferred embodiments, the systems and methods of this invention derive models of the economic values and of associated economic risks of particular sports activities and provide indices reflecting model computations. In further preferred embodiments, the system and method of this invention provide financial instruments having values that derive from one of the provided indices, index computing systems, and exchange or trading platform systems by which such derivative contacts can be valued and traded. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161387 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF DATA FILES USING SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS - An adaptive file delivery system and method transmits a data file, such as an audio-video file, over a network or collection of networks in segments, each segment transmitted during a different time period. In one embodiment, data files are transmitted on behalf of a third party using one or more service provider networks. In an exemplary embodiment, the third party contracts with the sending system to transmit the data files using the service provider networks to transmit data files to customers of the respective service provider networks. The data file is transmitted as a plurality of segments and transmitted in such a way so as to prevent congestion in the respective service provider networks. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161388 | DETERMINING A DEMAND FUNCTION FOR AN ITEM - An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a method for determining a demand function for an item. For example, the method includes determining a first estimate of the demand function for the item by utilizing a first auction having a first set of auction parameters. Additionally, the method includes determining a second estimate of the demand function for the item by utilizing a second auction using auction data from the first auction. The second auction has a second set of auction parameters based on the first estimate of the demand function. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING KNOWLEDGEBASE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEM - A system and associated method for building a knowledgebase for a software system. The knowledgebase has multiple problem-solution records for problems that may occur in the software system. A user of the knowledgebase requests a solution to a problem by submitting a problem description and payment information. The payment information is separately verified and the knowledgebase is searched for a problem-solution record that has the same problem description provided by the user. A solution of the matched problem-solution record is presented to the user and the user provides a feedback rating how effective the solution is in solving the problem. The feedback may be another solution for the problem or evidences supporting the feedback. If the feedback is evaluated to be valuable, the knowledgebase may be updated with the feedback. An author of an existing valuable solution and/or the user who provided another solution is rewarded. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161390 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING STEP OUT COMMISSIONS AND COMPENSATION FOR RESEARCH BROKERS - In a trading environment that comprises buy side traders and securities brokers, a computer process capable of preventing securities brokers from receiving information irrelevant to a commission payment for a securities transaction. The process comprises means for providing an overview of commission payments for a predetermined time period, means for providing details of step-out payments for the predetermined period, means for adjusting step-in amounts and frequencies, means for providing notification that a commission payment has been stepped out and is capable of being credited, means for automatically suggesting and performing step-ins and step-outs, and means for assessing the step-outs and step-ins against a predetermined budget. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161391 | VARIABLE RATE TRANSPORT FEES BASED ON VEHICLE EXHAUST EMISSIONS - This invention provides a system and method of detecting and responding to individual vehicle exhaust emissions such that a vehicle producing exhaust emissions containing pollutants in excess of required standards is assessed a higher toll or other fees than non-offending vehicles. Upon correction of the problem when emissions are determined to be within acceptable ranges, the fees are re-adjusted. Vehicle fees can be assessed on a sliding scale regardless of “acceptable thresholds” whereupon a higher levels of pollution emitted by the vehicle require payment of a higher fee than that paid by a vehicle with a lower level. Sensors may be installed within individual vehicles, or may be externally mounted to detect emissions. The use of a computer program and program code may be used for collecting and quantifying the level of pollution in the emissions and for assessing a suitable fee based on the level. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161392 | VARIABLE RATE TRAVEL FEE BASED UPON VEHICLE OCCUPANCY - Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for charging travel fees or awarding benefits as a function of vehicle occupancy. Variable travel fee schedules include a plurality of different rate values, each rate value associated with ride-sharing service points of a vehicle infrastructure and vehicle occupancy counts. Occupants within a vehicle traveling via a vehicle infrastructure are counted, the counting generating discrete occupant counts correlated with the ride-sharing service points. Subsets of variable travel fee schedule rate values are selected as a function of association with discrete occupant counts and correlated ride-sharing service points. Owners, occupants or other parties associated with the vehicle are accordingly charged a travel fee or awarded a benefit as a function of the rate value subset and an amount of the vehicle traveling. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161393 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARGING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE WITHIN A PARKING AREA - A method for delivering energy to an electric vehicle includes permitting access to a parking area that includes an energy delivery point, delivering energy to the electric vehicle from the energy delivery point, and determining a transaction cost. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161394 | MODULAR E-COMMERCE WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM - A system in accordance with the invention creates a predesigned software product generally for e-commerce applications that is modifiable by a company-user in terms of not only look and feel, but also functionality and flow. Such a system includes a set of predesigned business modules where each business module performs a unique function. Each business module is accompanied by a respective set of templates, each of which models a web page. Within each template is embedded one or more commands. To customize its system, the company-user (1) selects which business modules it desires, (2) selects which templates it desires to use with each business module, and (3) customizes each template in terms of look and feel. By selecting the modules, the company-user determines the system's overall functionality, and by selecting the templates, the company-user determines the look and feel and flow of the system. Once customized, the company-user populates a database for use of the system with company-specific data. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161395 | System and Method for Rendering Advertisements - A method, computer program product, and print driver for receiving an indication, on a computing device, of a print job to be printed on a printing device. One or more advertisements are rendered on the computing device. The print job is provided to the printing device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161396 | System and Method for Rendering Advertisements - A method, computer program product, and print driver for receiving an indication, on a computing device, of a print job to be printed on a printing device. One or more advertisements are rendered on the computing device. The print job is provided to the printing device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161397 | Facilitating Customer Recycling of Mobile Device - Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer program product is tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium and includes instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method for facilitating customer recycling of a mobile device. The method includes receiving an input in a mobile device from a user, the input initiating execution of program code configured to automatically present the user up-to-date instructions on how to recycle the mobile device. The method includes presenting, in response to the input, the up-to-date instructions on a display of the mobile device. | 2010-06-24 |
20100161398 | WEB-BASED ADVERTISING REWARD SYSTEM - A system for rewarding online viewing of advertisements is described. The system comprises a processor and a memory comprising a set of executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a user profile comprising demographic user information; to receive an advertising campaign comprising at least one advertisement, at least one reward amount identifier, and at least one user selection criteria; to transmit at least one advertisement to a user based on a comparison of the at least one user selection criteria and the user profile; and receive a user vote based on the at least one advertisement. | 2010-06-24 |