27th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140188446 | SYSTEM PERFORMANCE PREDICTION METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - An object of the present invention is to carry out a performance prediction which reflects actual behavior of a subject system which is a subject for which performance is to be predicted. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188447 | ESTIMATING FRACTURE DIMENSIONS FROM MICROSEISMIC DATA - Method for imaging of a hydraulic fracture generated by fluid injection. Microseismic data of the hydraulic fracture treatment is collected and analyzed for the location and magnitude of microseismic events. The seismic energy or moment of the micro seismic events is calculated ( | 2014-07-03 |
20140188448 | ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT PLANNING USING VIRTUAL ARTICULATOR - The present invention discloses orthodontic treatment planning using virtual articulator with the help of a computer workstation. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188449 | City Lifecycle Management - A city lifecycle management system for providing the means for city stakeholders to measure the performance of their decisions against defined key performance indicators with respect to a sustainable development of an urban area, said city lifecycle management system comprising:
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20140188450 | METHOD FOR MODELLING, OPTIMIZING, PARAMETERIZING, TESTING AND VALIDATING A DYNAMIC NETWORK WITH NETWORK PERTURBATIONS - The present invention relates to a method ( | 2014-07-03 |
20140188451 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING MANAGEMENT SERVER, DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING MANAGEMENT METHOD - Information for determining a data transfer route which maximizes a total amount of data processed on all of processing servers per unit time is generated. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188452 | Emulation of a Dynamic Address Translation With Change Record Override on a Machine of Another Architecture - A translation table entry contains a change recording override field for controlling whether a change bit is to be set on a store or not. Each 4K byte block of main storage has an associated storage key comprising a change bit. The change recording override field controls whether change bit of the storage key associated with the desired 4K byte block of main storage is set to 1 for a store operation. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188453 | Method and System for Automatic Management of Reputation of Translators - The present invention provides a method that includes receiving a result word set in a target language representing a translation of a test word set in a source language. When the result word set is not in a set of acceptable translations, the method includes measuring a minimum number of edits to transform the result word set into a transform word set. The transform word set is in the set of acceptable translations. A system is provided that includes a receiver to receive a result word set and a counter to measure a minimum number of edits to transform the result word set into a transform word set. A method is provided that includes automatically determining a translation ability of a human translator based on a test result. The method also includes adjusting the translation ability of the human translator based on historical data of translations performed by the human translator. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188454 | DETERMINING CORRESPONDING TERMS WRITTEN IN DIFFERENT FORMATS - Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention allow a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive relevant search results. Queries can be expressed using character sets and/or languages that are different from the character set and/or language of at least some of the data that is to be searched. A translation between these character sets and/or languages can be performed by examining the use of terms in aligned text. Probabilities can be associated with each possible translation. Refinements can be made to these probabilities by examining user interactions with the search results. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188455 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUAL SCREEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION - Generally, this disclosure provides systems and methods to facilitate real-time language translation between two speakers. A system may include an audio beamforming microphone configured to detect speech in a first language from a first speaker and to detect speech in a second language from a second speaker; a language translation module configured to translate the speech in the first language to text in the second language and to translate the speech in the second language to text in the first language; and a display element configured with a first display element side and a second display element side and further configured to display the text in the first language on the first display element side and to display the text in the second language on the second display element side. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188456 | Dictionary Markup System and Method - A method for providing the appropriate meaning of an entry in a text is described. The method includes the steps of determining if there are alternative meanings of the entry in an electronic dictionary and if there are alternative meanings determining the dictionary markup theme associated with each of the alternative meanings of the entry. Also, the theme associated with the text is determined. For a hierarchical structure associated with themes of entries in the electronic dictionary, the distance between the theme of the text with the dictionary markup theme of the alternative meanings of the entry is compared. Based on the distance between the theme of the text and the dictionary markup theme of the alternative meanings of the entry, the appropriate meaning is selected. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188457 | REAL-TIME SENTIMENT ANALYSIS FOR SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION - A lexical annotator that identifies a chunk of a communication and an associated sentiment is created. In real time, while monitoring a communication from a user, the lexical annotator is used to identify the sentiment for the chunk of the communication, and the sentiment for the chunk of the communication is provided. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA ENTRY BY ASSOCIATING STRUCTURED TEXTUAL CONTEXT TO IMAGES - A system for data entry by associating structured textual context to images comprising a computer apparatus having a display device to facilitate interaction with a user. The system has electronics, data, tokens, grammatical rules, and an interface. The data is comprised of records, images, and template images, the template images having hotspots and sub-template images. The hotspots have a selection, and the sub-template images have sub-template hotspots, with the sub-template hotspots having a selection. The selections are preferably associated with diagnostic images, of which there are both general and template-specific. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188459 | INTERACTIVE DASHBOARD BASED ON REAL-TIME SENTIMENT ANALYSIS FOR SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION - Provided is a technique for providing an interactive dashboard based on real-time sentiment analysis for synchronous communication. In real time, while monitoring communications between a first user and a second user, a cumulative sentiment score is generated representing a sentiment of the first user during a period of time and an instantaneous sentiment score representing a sentiment of the first user at a current time. In real time, an interactive dashboard is displayed with a visual representation for the first user having a first indicator representing the cumulative sentiment score and a second indicator representing the instantaneous sentiment score. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188460 | FEATURE-BASED AUTOCORRECTION - A computing device is described that outputs for display at a presence-sensitive screen, a graphical keyboard having keys. The computing device receives an indication of a selection of one or more of the keys. Based on the selection the computing device determines a character string from which the computing device determines one or more candidate words. Based at least in part on the candidate words and a plurality of features, the computing device determines a spelling probability that the character string represents an incorrect spelling of at least one candidate word. The plurality of features includes a spatial model probability associated with at least one of the candidate words. If the spelling probability satisfies a threshold, the computing device outputs for display the at least one candidate word. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188461 | OPTIMIZED CLOUD COMPUTING FACT CHECKING - A fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and/or characterize information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. Fact checking results are able to be validated by re-fact checking the fact check results. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188462 | Methods and Systems for Applications for Z-numbers - Specification covers new algorithms, methods, and systems for artificial intelligence, soft computing, and deep learning/recognition, e.g., image recognition (e.g., for action, gesture, emotion, expression, biometrics, fingerprint, facial, OCR (text), background, relationship, position, pattern, and object), large number of images (“Big Data”) analytics, machine learning, training schemes, crowd-sourcing (using experts or humans), feature space, clustering, classification, similarity measures, optimization, search engine, ranking, question-answering system, soft (fuzzy or unsharp) boundaries/impreciseness/ambiguities/fuzziness in language, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computing-with-Words (CWW), parsing, machine translation, sound and speech recognition, video search and analysis (e.g. tracking), image annotation, geometrical abstraction, image correction, semantic web, context analysis, data reliability (e.g., using Z-number (e.g., “About 45 minutes; Very sure”)), rules engine, control system, autonomous vehicle, self-diagnosis and self-repair robots, system diagnosis, medical diagnosis, biomedicine, data mining, event prediction, financial forecasting, economics, risk assessment, e-mail management, database management, indexing and join operation, memory management, and data compression. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188463 | HOME APPLIANCE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A home appliance and an operation method thereof are disclosed. The operation method of the home appliance includes entering a voice recognition mode, receiving a voice data through a microphone, recognizing the received voice date, and, in a case in which the recognized voice data contains information related to another home appliance, transmitting the recognized voice data to the corresponding home appliance. Consequently, sharing of voice data between home appliances is achieved. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188464 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING BANDWIDTH EXTENSION SIGNAL - An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal includes an anti-sparseness processing unit to perform anti-sparseness processing on a low-frequency spectrum; and a frequency domain high-frequency extension decoding unit to perform high-frequency extension encoding in the frequency domain on the low-frequency spectrum on which the anti-sparseness processing is performed. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188465 | CODING MODE DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AUDIO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND AUDIO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided are a method and an apparatus for determining an encoding mode for improving the quality of a reconstructed audio signal. A method of determining an encoding mode includes determining one from among a plurality of encoding modes including a first encoding mode and a second encoding mode as an initial encoding mode in correspondence to characteristics of an audio signal, and if there is an error in the determination of the initial encoding mode, generating a modified encoding mode by modifying the initial encoding mode to a third encoding mode. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188466 | INTEGRATED SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLER - A system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a far-end telephone speech signal to a user of a telephony device in the presence of near-end background noise. As described herein, the system and method improves the intelligibility of the far-end telephone speech signal in a manner that does not require user input and that minimizes the distortion of the far-end telephone speech signal. The system is integrated with an acoustic echo canceller and shares information therewith. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188467 | VIBRATION SENSOR AND ACOUSTIC VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION SYSTEMS (VADS) FOR USE WITH ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - A voice activity detector (VAD) combines the use of an acoustic VAD and a vibration sensor VAD as appropriate to the conditions a host device is operated. The VAD includes a first detector receiving a first signal and a second detector receiving a second signal. The VAD includes a first VAD component coupled to the first and second detectors. The first VAD component determines that the first signal corresponds to voiced speech when energy resulting from at least one operation on the first signal exceeds a first threshold. The VAD includes a second VAD component coupled to the second detector. The second VAD component determines that the second signal corresponds to voiced speech when a ratio of a second parameter corresponding to the second signal and a first parameter corresponding to the first signal exceeds a second threshold. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188468 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING PASSPHRASE VARIABILITY - An apparatus, system and method for calculating passphrase variability are disclosed. The passphrase variability value can then be used for generating phonetically rich passwords in text-dependent speaker recognition systems, or for estimating the variability of the input passphrase in text-independent system during the enrolling process in a speech recognition security system. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188469 | DIFFERENTIAL DYNAMIC CONTENT DELIVERY WITH TEXT DISPLAY IN DEPENDENCE UPON SIMULTANEOUS SPEECH - Differential dynamic content delivery including providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a user participant in the presentation; presenting the selected structural element to the user; streaming presentation speech to the user including individual speech from at least one user participating in the presentation; converting the presentation speech to text; detecting whether the presentation speech contains simultaneous individual speech from two or more users; and displaying the text if the presentation speech contains simultaneous individual speech from two or more users. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188470 | FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE FOR ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING ENGINE - A disclosed speech processor includes a front end to receive a speech input and generate a feature vector indicative of a portion of the speech input and a Gaussian mixture (GMM) circuit to receive the feature vector, model any one of a plurality of GMM speech recognition algorithms, and generate a GMM score for the feature vector based on the GMM speech recognition algorithm modeled. In at least one embodiment, the GMM circuit includes a common compute block to generate feature a vector sum indicative of a weighted sum of differences squares between the feature vector and a mixture component of the GMM speech recognition algorithm. In at least one embodiment, the GMM speech recognition algorithm being modeled includes a plurality of Gaussian mixture components and the common compute block is operable to generate feature vector scores corresponding to each of the plurality of mixture components. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188471 | USER PROFILING FOR VOICE INPUT PROCESSING - This is directed to processing voice inputs received by an electronic device. In particular, this is directed to receiving a voice input and identifying the user providing the voice input. The voice input can be processed using a subset of words from a library used to identify the words or phrases of the voice input. The particular subset can be selected such that voice inputs provided by the user are more likely to include words from the subset. The subset of the library can be selected using any suitable approach, including for example based on the user's interests and words that relate to those interests. For example, the subset can include one or more words related to media items selected by the user for storage on the electronic device, names of the user's contacts, applications or processes used by the user, or any other words relating to the user's interactions with the device. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188472 | ADAPTIVE VOICE PRINT FOR CONVERSATIONAL BIOMETRIC ENGINE - A computer-implemented method, system and/or program product update voice prints over time. A receiving computer receives an initial voice print. A determining period of time is calculated for that initial voice print. This determining period of time is a length of time during which an expected degree of change in subsequent voice prints, in comparison to the initial voice print and according to a speaker's subsequent age, is predicted to occur. A new voice print is received after the determining period of time has passed, and the new voice print is compared with the initial voice print. In response to a change to the new voice print falling within the expected degree of change in comparison to the initial voice print, a voice print store is updated with the new voice print. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188473 | VOICE INSPECTION GUIDANCE - A system is provided that includes an inspection instrument. The inspection instrument includes communications circuitry, configured to communicatively couple the inspection instrument with information services; an audio input device, configured to receive inspection audio; and a processor, configured to query the information services via sending a request to the information services based upon an analysis of keywords, phrases, or both interpreted from the inspection audio. A voice recognition system configured to analyze the inspection audio for the keywords, phrases, or both is also provided. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188474 | System and Method of Lattice-Based Search for Spoken Utterance Retrieval - A system and method are disclosed for retrieving audio segments from a spoken document. The spoken document preferably is one having moderate word error rates such as telephone calls or teleconferences. The method comprises converting speech associated with a spoken document into a lattice representation and indexing the lattice representation of speech. These steps are performed typically off-line. Upon receiving a query from a user, the method further comprises searching the indexed lattice representation of speech and returning retrieved audio segments from the spoken document that match the user query. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188475 | FAST OUT-OF-VOCABULARY SEARCH IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS - A method including: receiving, on a computer system, a text search query, the query including one or more query words; generating, on the computer system, for each query word in the query, one or more anchor segments within a plurality of speech recognition processed audio files, the one or more anchor segments identifying possible locations containing the query word; post-processing, on the computer system, the one or more anchor segments, the post-processing including: expanding the one or more anchor segments; sorting the one or more anchor segments; and merging overlapping ones of the one or more anchor segments; and searching, on the computer system, the post-processed one or more anchor segments for instances of at least one of the one or more query words using a constrained grammar. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188476 | CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH BARGE-IN MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a content delivery system includes: receiving a command phrase based on determining an utterance type according to a travel context; determining a trigger match with a control unit based on the command phrase matching a trigger phrase; and stopping a prompt according to a prompt type based on the trigger match for controlling the prompt presented by a device. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188477 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING A SPEECH RESPONSE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE SYSTEM - A natural language dialogue system and a method capable of correcting a speech response are provided. The method includes following steps. A first speech input is received. At least one keyword included in the first speech input is parsed to obtain a candidate list having at least one report answers. One of the report answers is selected from the candidate list as a first report answer, and a first speech response is output according to the first report answer. A second speech input is received and parsed to determine whether the first report answer is correct. If the first report answer is incorrect, another report answer other than the first report answer is selected from the candidate list as a second report answer. According to the second report answer, a second speech response is output. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188478 | NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE METHOD AND NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE SYSTEM - A natural language dialogue method and a natural language dialogue system are provided. In the method, a first speech input is received and parsed to generate at least one keyword included in the first speech input, so that a candidate list including at least one report answer is obtained. According to a properties database, one report answer is selected from the candidate list, and a first speech response is output according to the report answer. Other speech inputs are received, and a user's preference data is captured from the speech inputs. The user's preference data is stored in the properties database. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188479 | AUDIO EXPRESSION OF TEXT CHARACTERISTICS - In a method for communicating characteristics of an electronic document, a coefficient representative of predetermined characteristics of the electronic document is determined. The coefficient is associated with a corresponding audio rendering parameter. A speech signal communicating content of the electronic document is generated. The speech signal includes predetermined text content items audio formatted based on the audio rendering parameter. The speech signal is rendered to the user. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188480 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED TEXT-TO-SPEECH VOICES - A system and method are disclosed for generating customized text-to-speech voices for a particular application. The method comprises generating a custom text-to-speech voice by selecting a voice for generating a custom text-to-speech voice associated with a domain, collecting text data associated with the domain from a pre-existing text data source and using the collected text data, generating an in-domain inventory of synthesis speech units by selecting speech units appropriate to the domain via a search of a pre-existing inventory of synthesis speech units, or by recording the minimal inventory for a selected level of synthesis quality. The text-to-speech custom voice for the domain is generated utilizing the in-domain inventory of synthesis speech units. Active learning techniques may also be employed to identify problem phrases wherein only a few minutes of recorded data is necessary to deliver a high quality TTS custom voice. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED ADAPTATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SPEAKER AUTHENTICATION IN A VOICE BIOMETRIC SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - A system for automated adaptation and improvement of speaker authentication in a voice biometric system environment, comprising a speech sample collector, a target selector, a voice analyzer, a voice data modifier, and a call flow creator. The speech sample collector retrieves speech samples from a database of enrolled participants in a speaker authentication system. The target selector selects target users that will be used to test the speaker authentication system. The voice analyzer extracts a speech component data set from each of the speech samples. The call flow creator creates a plurality of call flows for testing the speaker authentication system, each call flow being either an impostor call flow or a legitimate call flow. The call flows created by the call flow creator are used to test the speaker authentication system. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188482 | VOICE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - A voice control method is provided. At least one object name-action prompt correspondence document is received and processed into an object name-action prompt correspondence document set that defines at least one object name and at least one corresponding action prompt. The object name-action prompt correspondence document set is processed to establish an object name-action prompt correspondence list. A voice is recognized as one or multiple voice recognition results to generate one or multiple corresponding candidate object names. At least one corresponding candidate action prompt is outputted according to the candidate object name(s) and the object name-action prompt correspondence list. A selected action prompt is received, and a module providing the selected action prompt is requested to execute an operation. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188483 | AUDIO DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An audio device transfers voice data which requests playback, generated by a user to a portable player. The portable player performs voice recognition of the transferred voice data. Control for playback start is started in accordance with the content as the result of the voice recognition. The audio device starts monitoring for a playback state of the portable player. If the start of the playback operation is detected within a predetermined period, an output source of sound to be output is changed to the portable player. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188484 | USER INTERFACE FOR A REMOTE CONTROL APPLICATION - A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to perform activities, and to access favorites. The remote control application is also adapted to be upgradeable. Furthermore, the remote control application provides for the sharing of operational mode information. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188485 | CENTRAL CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed is a central controller, comprising: a microphone; an audio output unit configured to output audible information; a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with an electronic device using wireless signals; an event unit configured to receive event information on an event generated from the electronic device, through the wireless communication unit; and a controller configured to control the audio output unit based on the received event information, such that a guide voice indicating a status of the electronic device is output, wherein once a voice for controlling the electronic device is input to the microphone, the wireless communication unit is controlled such that a control command corresponding to the voice is transmitted to the electronic device. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188486 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a display apparatus and controlling method thereof. The display apparatus including: a voice receiver which collects a user's utterance; a communicator which transmits the user's utterance to a dialogue type server, and receives response information generated based on the user's utterance; a storage unit which stores control information corresponding to each user's utterance; a controller which determines whether the control information corresponding to the collected user's utterance is stored in the storage unit and performs operations corresponding to the user's utterance based on a result of the determination. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188487 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROBUST AUDIO HASHING - Method and system for channel-invariant robust audio hashing, the method comprising:
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20140188488 | Reduced Complexity Converter SNR Calculation - An audio encoder configured to encode an audio signal to generate a bitstream having E-AC-3 format, including by determining a first control parameter indicative of an allocation of available mantissa bits for quantized audio content of the signal. The encoder is configured to perform transcoding simulation to determine a second control parameter in a manner based at least in part on statistical analysis of results of E-AC-3 bit allocation processing of audio data assuming a first target data rate, and of AC-3 bit allocation processing of the data assuming a second target data rate, and to include the second control parameter in the bitstream for use by a converter to convert the bitstream into a second to bitstream having AC-3 format at the second target data rate. Other aspects are converters configured to perform transcoding on a bitstream using such a second control parameter, and methods performed by any embodiment of the inventive encoder or converter. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188489 | Method and Apparatus for Frame-Based Buffer Control in a Communication System - A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling a buffer in a digital audio broadcasting (DAB) communication system. The decoder buffer level limits are specified in terms of a maximum number of encoded frames (or duration). The transmitter can predict the number of encoded frames, F | 2014-07-03 |
20140188490 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOSSLESS VALUE-LOCATION ENCODING - A method of encoding samples in a digital signal is provided that includes receiving a frame of N samples of the digital signal, determining L possible distinct data values in the N samples, determining a reference data value in the L possible distinct data values and a coding order of L−1 remaining possible distinct data values, wherein each of the L−1 remaining possible distinct data values is mapped to a position in the coding order, decomposing the N samples into L−1 coding vectors based on the coding order, wherein each coding vector identifies the locations of one of the L−1 remaining possible distinct data values in the N samples, and encoding the L−1 coding vectors. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188491 | ESTIMATING FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY A PATIENT RECEIVING A HEALTHCARE SERVICE - Described embodiments include a computer-implemented method, device, and computer program product. A computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving a previously prepared estimate of fees and costs to deliver a diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a particular disease, illness, injury, or other physical or mental impairment (hereafter “healthcare service”) to a particular patient. The computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving data at least partially indicative of the healthcare service provided to the patient to date. The computer-implemented method includes estimating probable fees and costs incurred to date in providing the healthcare service to the particular patient. The estimating is responsive to the received data indicative of at least part of the healthcare service provided to date. The computer-implemented method includes outputting in substantially real time information indicative of the probable fees and costs incurred to date in view of the previous estimate of the fees and costs for providing the healthcare service. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188492 | FORECASTING FEES AND COSTS TO COMPLETE DELIVERY OF A HEALTHCARE SERVICE TO A PATIENT - Described embodiments include a computer-implemented method, device, and computer program product. A computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving a request for information indicative of future fees and costs to be incurred by a particular patient presently undergoing a diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a particular disease, illness, injury, or other physical or mental impairment (hereafter “healthcare service”). The computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving data at least partially indicative of the healthcare service provided to the patient as of receipt of the request for information. The computer-implemented method includes forecasting probable fees and costs to complete delivery of the healthcare service to the patient. The forecasting is responsive to the received data and on a characteristic of the healthcare service. The computer-implemented method includes outputting in substantially real time information indicative of the probable future fees and costs to complete delivery of the healthcare service to the patient. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188493 | INFORMATION INDICATING FEES AND COSTS TO COMPLETE DELIVERY OF A HEALTHCARE SERVICE TO A PATIENT AND AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE HEALTHCARE SERVICE - For example, and without limitation, an embodiment of the subject matter described herein includes a computer-implemented method. The computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving a request for information indicative of future fees and costs to be incurred by a particular patient presently undergoing a healthcare service. The computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving data at least partially indicative of the healthcare service provided to the patient. The computer-implemented method includes forecasting probable future fees and costs to complete delivery of the healthcare service. The forecasting is responsive to the received data and a characteristic of the healthcare service. The computer-implemented method includes identifying an efficacious alternative healthcare service option. The computer-implemented method includes outputting in substantially real time information indicative of the forecasted probable future fees and costs to complete delivery of the healthcare service to the patient and the efficacious alternative healthcare service option. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188494 | ESTIMATING FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY PATIENT BASED ON INDIRECTLY ACQUIRED DATA OR PATIENT ENTERED DATA - For example, and without limitation, an embodiment of the subject matter described herein includes a computer-implemented method. The computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving data indicative of a healthcare service provided to a particular patient. The received data includes at least one of data indicative of an activity within a proximity of the patient, or data inputted by the patient and relevant to determining an aspect of the healthcare service. The computer-implemented method includes converting the received data into information indicative of one or more units of service. The computer-implemented method includes estimating probable fees and costs incurred to date in providing the healthcare service. The estimating is responsive to the information indicative of units of healthcare service provided to the patient. The computer-implemented method includes outputting information indicative of the probable fees and costs incurred to date providing the healthcare service. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188495 | METHOD FOR ASSESSING AND MANAGING HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVY METAL POLLUTION - A method for assessing and managing health risks of heavy metal pollution. The method includes: 1) investigation and analysis of environmental pollution; 2) population exposure analysis; 3) risk assessment and representation; 4) risk perception and estimate of acceptable level of risk; 5) identification of an overall boundary of risk management; 6) identification of priority pollutants; and 7) identification of a key population and a key managing point. The method panoramically analyzes the health risk taking into account multiple sources, multiple environmental media, multiple exposure routes, and multiple receptors. The method also integrates the risk assessment, public risk perception, public acceptable risk level, and risk management to establish a comprehensive risk management strategy. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188496 | KNOWLEDGE AWARE CASE CART MANAGER SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for managing one or more case carts in a healthcare setting. Information associated with a case cart is received at a case cart manager system. Based on the information, at least one action is determined for the case cart, and the action is communicated to the case cart. The case cart or a user of the case cart is directed to perform the at least one action. Additionally, the case cart can detect its own status and generate status information that is communicated to and received at the case cart manager system. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188497 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR STATION - A method and apparatus is provided for content influencing according to real time and/or dynamic computed profile of a user visiting the apparatus on basis of information obtained about the user by the apparatus at a geographic location. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188498 | Rating and Ranking Controlled Substance Distribution Stakeholders - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for rating and ranking stakeholders in the distribution of controlled substances. One computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computer system, retail prescription data, encrypted patient data, reference prescriber data, and pharmaceutical purchase data. For a retail outlet included in the received data, the method includes aggregating the received data and determining information about sales of a pharmaceutical product associated with the retail outlet. The method further includes rating the retail outlet based on the aggregated information. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188499 | HUMAN ACTION MONITOR - Systems and corresponding methodologies that enable continuous, real-time or near real-time monitoring of joint activity of patients who are undergoing physical therapy is provided. A joint's motion patterns can be measured using a six degree of freedom combine accelerometer, magnometer and gyroscope sensors that are placed above and below (or in proximity of) the joint. The data is stored on a data logger that is carried by a patient, e.g., clipped to the patient's belt and can be uploaded onto a website when attached to a computer, e.g., via a USB cord. While portable sensors are available in the market for research or gaming purposes, one key feature of the device is to provide continuous monitoring of the injured joint and electronically relay this information to the therapist, for example, via the designated website. Thus, the therapist is always informed about the patient's joint and could recommend alterations to their treatment plan. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188500 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE CHEST COMPRESSION FRACTION MEASUREMENT FOR CPR QUALITY ASSESSMENT - Devices, systems, software and methods for CPR quality assessment. Patient data is received that may be derived from a session of administering sets of CPR chest compressions to a patient. The sets can be separated by pauses. Then a figure of merit (FOM) can be computed from the data in the computation, at least one pause can contribute a penalty to the FOM. The penalty has a value determined from at least one control factor, other than a constant linear dependence on the duration of the pause. This way, pauses can incur penalties to the FOM computation depending on their context, instead of merely their duration. For example, a penalty can escalate non-linearly if its pause becomes unduly long, or if it follows a set of chest compressions that was unduly short. As such, a better CPR quality assessment is achieved. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188501 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING TASKS - An apparatus for executing a task includes an authenticator to identify a user, a controller that can receive data from the user, and an authorizer to ensure that the user has access to applications used to execute the task. The controller is able to register or de-register the applications and then determine which if the registered applications should be used to execute the task. The controller then converts the data from the user so that it can be used by the application to execute the task. If the user selects a second task to be executed, the controller can determine which of the registered applications is to be used to execute the second task. Methods for executing multiple tasks are also described. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188502 | PRESCRIPTION SMART LABEL SYSTEM - The embodiments disclose a prescription smart label system for tracking patient use of prescription medications to assist in medication treatment to monitor their progress toward recovery or health maintenance including a prescription smart label including a text section with prescription information, a smart label programmable memory device, one or more rechargeable battery systems, other digital devices and Wi-Fi direct near field communication transmitter used to transmit patient prescription use, a prescription smart label cap including one or more systems to remind patients of prescription use times and dosages, a prescription smart label bottle including one or more systems used to monitor the physical use of the patient prescription medication and monitor the contents of the prescription smart label bottle and a prescription smart label mobile application used to gather, record, store and transmit patient patient prescription use data. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188503 | Multi-Modality Case Explorer System and Method - Generally, the present disclosure is directed to displaying patient medical data in a multi-modality medical processing system. The method and system described herein present medical data in multiple different modalities on a single user interface screen, allowing a practitioner viewing the user interface to manage all acquired data sets associated with a patient regardless of modality. As such, the amount of time a practitioner must spend reviewing patient medical data is reduced, leading to more efficient diagnosis and treatment. Further, multiple patient cases corresponding to different patients may be presented on a single user interface screen to simplify multi-patient case management. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188504 | SENSITIVE DRUG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A drug distribution system and method utilizes a central pharmacy and database to track all prescriptions for a sensitive drug. Information is kept in the database regarding all physicians allowed to prescribe the sensitive drug, and all patients receiving the drug. Abuses are identified by monitoring data in the database for prescription patterns by physicians and prescriptions obtained by patients. Further verification is made that the physician is eligible to prescribe the drug by consulting a separate database, and optionally whether any actions are taken against the physician. Multiple controls beyond those for normal drugs are imposed on the distribution depending on the sensitivity of the drug. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188505 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PHARMACY LOCATION - Methods and systems for pharmacy location are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of pharmacy network associations of a member is determined. The pharmacy network associations are associated with a drug benefit plan of the member. A pharmacy within a pharmacy network association of the plurality of pharmacy network associations is capable of fulfilling a prescription for a prescription drug. A location associated with the member is accessed. A display is generated based on the determination of the pharmacy network associations and the location of the member. The display includes a first indicator and a second indicator. A first network pharmacy of a first pharmacy network association is associated with the first indicator on the display. A second network pharmacy of a second pharmacy network association is associated with the second indicator on the display. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188506 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT REGIMEN MANAGEMENT - Methods and systems for treatment regimen management are described. In one embodiment, a treatment regimen associated with a user is determined. The treatment regimen includes treatment first treatment component and a second treatment component. The treatment regimen also includes a first treatment schedule associated with the first treatment component and a second treatment schedule associated with the second treatment component. Multiple treatment events are scheduled in an electronic calendar. The treatment events are based upon the first treatment schedule and the second treatment schedule. A treatment alert associated with each of the treatment events is generated. Other methods and systems are also described. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188507 | LIFESTYLE PROGRESSION MODELS FOR USE IN PREVENTATIVE CARE - A method for generating a lifestyle progression (LSP) plan for a patient subject includes collecting patient data including a list of exercise activities performed over a plurality of non-overlapping periods for a plurality of patients and patient health records. The collected patient data is clustered into related groups using k-mean clustering. An | 2014-07-03 |
20140188508 | METHOD OF AUTOMATED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM - The embodiments disclose a method of automated electronic health record system including automating the collection, recordation, storage and use patient health information and data to create an electronic health record in a secure electronic environment, using one or more automated systems to facilitate the rapid and accurate collection, storage and use of the electronic health record information and data including automated database access security measures and querying the electronic health record information and data using the one or more automated systems to prepare and process patient billing, health insurance billings and collections and cross check the electronic health record information and data with current governmental and agency compliance and other health related processing. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SERVICE PROVIDER IDENTIFICATION IN A COMPUTER NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods of providing information via a communications network are provided. A data processing system can obtain referral input data including at least one of subject condition data and remittance data, and can identify, from a database, service provider data associated with a service provider and based on the referral input data. At least one of the referral input data and the service provider data can be provided for display by a referring computing device associated with the data processing system, and a referral request can be sent via the communications network to a recipient computing device associated with the service provider. The referral request can include at least a portion of the referral input data. Responsive to the referral request, availability data of the service provider can be obtained based on at least one of the subject condition data and the remittance data. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188510 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RETREIVING INFORMATION FROM A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR STORAGE IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - A module for retrieving information from a computer system and storing information in a cloud for retrieval by authorized persons. The module can also store the gathered or retrieved information onto media. The module can be hardware or software or combination of hardware and software. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STRATIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS - Automated medical analysis may organize medical data based on disease stage and generate a treatment option based on the disease stage. A server comprising a processor circuit and a database may receive medical data. The processor circuit may identify data indicative of a disease stage within the medical data and store the data indicative of the disease stage in the database. The processor circuit may organize the data indicative of the disease stage based on disease stage. The processor circuit may analyze the data indicative of the disease stage to generate a treatment option based on the disease stage. The processor circuit may cause the treatment option and the organized data to be displayed. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188512 | Patient Consent and Confidentiality - A system and method for managing patient consent. A Master Matching Index (MMI) includes a collection of patient information and identifiers. An MMI adapter is coupled to the MMI for sending queries to the MMI for a health related entity. The MMI adapter comprises a data access manager that includes a lookup module, an authorization engine, an auditing module, a report module and a user interface engine. The user profile engine generates and updates user profile information. The lookup module enables a user to query patient information. The authorization engine determines whether the user has authorization to access patient information. The auditing module logs and monitors user activity. The report module generates reports related to user activity. The user interface engine generates user interfaces for displaying the user profiles, patient profiles and patient data. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188513 | Multi-Modality Selective Archiving System and Method - Generally, the present disclosure is directed to selectively archiving patient data in a multi-modality medical processing system. The method and system described herein selectively archive medical data at a patient case level, at modality data set level, and/or at an individual image level, so as to allow a practitioner to have a fine level of control over the specific data archived. Further, data sets in different medical modalities may be archived at the same time, and patient cases corresponding to different patients may be archived at the same time to increase archival efficiency. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188514 | Multi-Modality Anonymizing System and Method - Generally, the present disclosure is directed to anonymizing patient data in a multi-modality medical processing system. The method and system described herein automatically remove information from medical data that could identify the patient from which it was acquired, so as to protect the privacy of the patient. Specifically, the anonymizing is performed without intervention from a human to limit errors and incomplete information deletion. Further, data sets in different medical modalities may be anonymized at the same time, and multiple patient cases corresponding to different patients may be anonymized at the same time to increase efficiency. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188515 | Multi-Modality Case Management System and Method - Generally, the present disclosure is directed to managing and storing patient data in a multi-modality medical processing system. The method and systems described herein store all medical data acquired from a patient in a single patient record that is assigned a unique identifier. For example, (i) information identifying a patient, (ii) data acquired during a first diagnostic procedure, and (iii) data acquired during a second, different diagnostic procedure may all be stored in association with the same unique identifier, so as to simplify patient case review and retrieval. As an aspect of this, identifying patient information such as patient name and date of birth need only be inputted into the disclosed system a single time, thereby reducing the chance of clerical error. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188516 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Electronic Patient Care - A method, related system and apparatus are disclosed. The method is implemented by an operative set of processor executable instructions configured for execution by a processor. The method includes the acts of: determining if a monitoring client is connected to a base through a physical connection; establishing a first communications link between the monitoring client and the base through the physical connection; updating, if necessary, the interface program on the monitoring client and the base through the first communications link; establishing a second communications link between the monitoring client and the base using the first communications link; and communicating data from the base to the monitoring client using the second communications link. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188517 | MEDICAL INFORMATION TERMINAL - A medical information terminal for input and display of medical information of a patient comprises a position information obtaining unit that obtains position information of the medical information terminal, an information concealing level setting unit that sets an information concealing level for description contents of each item of the medical information, and an information concealing unit that determines an information display threshold value indicating a threshold value at which the description contents of each item are displayed according to the position information obtained by the position information obtaining unit and conceals the description contents of each item if the information concealing level of each item of the medical information is at the information display threshold value or more. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188518 | Medical Screening System - A medical screening system includes: a mobile device including: a user interface embodied in an input/output system; a processor; and a memory in communication with the processor, including stored instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: provide a medical screening intake system that receives objective medical data, subjective medical data, and medical test results for a person as input through the user interface; receive the objective medical data, subjective medical data, and medical test results for the person as input through the user interface; automatically process the objective medical data, subjective medical data, and medical test results to generate one or more plans of care specifically adapted for the person; and communicate the one or more plans of care specifically adapted for the person to the person as a report embodied in a structured data output. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188519 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING THE DELIVERY OF HIGH-QUALITY HEALTH CARE OVER AN INFORMATION NETWORK - The field of the invention relates to systems and methods for managing healthcare information systems, and more particularly to systems and methods for coordinating the delivery of high-quality health care and medical services over an information network. In one embodiment, a processing server is configured to electronically receive a patient's health information over a data network from one or more patient systems. The processing server also includes a computer program product having a computer-usable medium including a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes said processor to execute a process that coordinates the delivery of transferrable patient health information and provides preoperative testing recommendations based on a single acquisition of electronic patient health information. The process includes the steps of retrieving patient health information; distributing patient health information over said data network; submitting automated authorization requests; providing patient-specific clinical decision support in the form of evidence-based testing guidelines and preoperative recommendations, wherein the recommendations are based on medical triggers and factors acquired from said patient health information; and generating a quality reporting record. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188520 | LIFE INSURANCE OPTION - A method of providing deferred life insurance through a life insurance option. The deferred life insurance becomes effective later in the life of an insured after the option matures. The insured pays at least one payment during a first period for the deferred life insurance policy option. The deferred life insurance policy is inactive during the first period, and becomes effective at the beginning of the second period when the option matures. The insured pays at least one payment during a second period, which follows the first period, for the deferred life insurance policy, assuming the insured lives this long. The insured is entitled to a benefit based on the deferred term life insurance policy only in the event of death of the insured occurs during the second period. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188521 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Cash Value Adjustment to a Life Insurance Policy - A method and system for performing a cash value adjustment to an insurance policy issued by an insurer and owned by a policy owner, the method performed by a computer processing system. The method may include (1) inputting parameters of an insurance policy, the parameters including controlling parameters, and the controlling parameters including: (i) a constraint dictated parameter of the insurance policy; and (ii) a driven parameter of the insurance policy. The method may further include analyzing the relationship between the constraint dictated parameter and the driven parameter; and performing a re-underwriting of the insurance policy using the parameters of the insurance policy and a set of re-underwriting criteria. The method may further include generating re-underwritten policy data to constitute a re-underwritten policy. The method may include providing an annuity. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188522 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING THE VALUE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY - Accurate, appropriate valuation of the contents of a residence is facilitated based on characteristics of the household and the residence. These factors are used to estimate the proper value of the contents and may be based, at least in part and in various embodiments, on information collected in the course of the insurance underwriting process and from public and non-public consumer spending data. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188523 | SYSTEM FOR REMUNERATION FOR LOST BAGGAGE - The present disclosure provides a process for a passenger to receive remuneration for baggage or luggage that is lost by an airline notwithstanding the contents of the baggage. The process charges a predetermined amount of coverage on a leg of an airline flight for the baggage notwithstanding the contents of the baggage, obtains information via any type of electronic medium from the airline and creates a physical receipt so that the amount of coverage can be obtained by the person covered after a certain period of time easily and without any further proof. The method includes waiting for a first fixed period of time for the airline to declare that the baggage is lost, and waiting for a second, fixed period of time that is longer in duration than the first, fixed period of time, to file a claim for the declared lost baggage. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188524 | System And Method For Generating Insurance Coverage Packages - Systems, methods means and computer program code for administering comprehensive protection plans are provided which include a computer system to process an insurance claim, the system having a first policy database storing policy data associated with a first type of insurance, a second policy database storing policy data associated with a second type of insurance, a requestor device and a claims processing system for receiving an insurance claim associated with a customer, determining that the claim involves a single loss event and more than one type of property damage, retrieving from the first policy database, information associated with a first policy of the customer and at least a second policy of the customer, the information including a first deductible associated with the first policy and a second deductible associated with the second policy, determining which of the first and second deductible to apply to the claim, and updating the first and second policy databases based on the determined deductible. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188525 | SYSTEM FOR APPRAISING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES - A method and system of appraising a life insurance or annuity product includes receiving a request for a life insurance or annuity product and information about a party requesting the life insurance or annuity product; preparing a bid solicitation for the life insurance or annuity product based on the request and information and transmitting the bid solicitation to a plurality of product carriers; a plurality of product carriers submitting initial proposals for providing the life insurance or annuity product; generating ratings for the initial proposals, respectively; and generating appraisals for the initial proposals; and informing the product carriers of the decision. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE RENTAL INSURANCE - Exemplary embodiments provide systems, methods, and products that offer, characterize, price, and/or sell vehicle rental insurance coverage in terms of the type of vehicle, class of vehicle, or exact vehicle that the customer will obtain as a rental, instead of, or in addition to, a dollar limit per day and/or a dollar limit per incident. Various embodiments allow insurers to offer and calculate a premium price for, and/or allow consumers to choose and pay for, coverage specified according to the type of vehicle, class of vehicle, and/or exact vehicle desired as a rental replacement for an insured vehicle. Various embodiments also allow insurers to offer and calculate a premium price for, and allow consumers to choose and pay for, optional add-ons for the rental vehicle, such as a navigation system and/or a child safety seat. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188527 | Enhanced Two-Dimensional Seat Map - Computing systems and methods for facilitating the review and purchase of event tickets include storage components that store information regarding ticketed events and venue information for seating arrangements, and also one or more processors that conduct activities regarding the review and purchase of tickets using an enhanced two-dimensional seat map. Actions include providing a display on a computing device including information regarding a venue that is used for ticketed events, accepting on the computing device a user input regarding seating arrangements for the venue, determining an attendance location for a ticketed event at the venue based upon the input, generating a two-dimensional representation or map of a region of interest at the venue from the determined attendance location, and displaying to the user the two-dimensional map. The computing device can be a cellular telephone or other small portable device, and the map can be created using scalable vector graphics and/or HTML5. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188528 | Customized Advertisement for Venue Seat Map - Computing systems and methods for providing customized advertisements on virtual venue seat representations or maps during the review and/or purchase of event tickets by customers include storage components that store information regarding ticketed events and venue information for seating arrangements, and also one or more processors that conduct activities regarding providing the customized advertisements during the review and purchase of tickets. Actions include providing a display on a computing device including information regarding a venue that is used for ticketed events, accepting on the computing device a user input regarding tickets or seating arrangements for the venue, determining an attendance location for a ticketed event at the venue based upon the input, generating a representation or map of a region of interest at the venue from the determined attendance location, creating a customized advertisement for the user, and displaying to the user the customized advertisement within the representation or map. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188529 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDEMPTION AND EXCHANGE OF UNUSED TICKETS - A method of facilitating and performing the redemption and exchange of unused tickets includes steps of determining the availability of unused tickets, calculating a redemption value of an available unused ticket, and updating a status of the unused ticket. The availability is determined by querying a database containing information pertaining to unused tickets. The redemption value is calculated based on the application of validation rules. The status is updated after a decision as to whether to redeem the unused ticket has been made. The redemption value is obtainable by exchanging the unused ticket for a new ticket. The tickets may be for air travel. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188530 | PROVISION OF CUSTOMER ATTRIBUTES TO AN ORGANIZATION - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing attributes representing a customer for distribution to recipients that are organizations. In operation, customer information is received and organized as attributes that are then made available to predetermined recipients. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188531 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COST ESTIMATION AND PAYMENT OF THE PRODUCT - A method has been revealed, which is applicable in the execution of tasks, characterized with the presumed use of products from more than one supplier during their realization, cost- setting and payment for electronic content and/or software and/or services, rendered by operators of computer-based systems, functioning in a common environment such as the Internet, cloudy environment, etc. The method provides the opportunity for cost-setting and payment, guaranteeing the free participation of various suppliers. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188532 | Multitenant Database Placement with a Cost Based Query Scheduler - Systems and methods are disclosed for placing tenants in a cloud based database server, by estimating with a processor a cost of placing a set of tenants on a server using a simulator; estimating a relative importance of different tenant's queries; and selecting an optimal server for each tenant based with a cost-based schedular to maximize profit using the simulator. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188533 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING OPERATIONAL DATA FOR A VEHICLE FLEET - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a fleet management system configured for capturing and evaluating vehicle telematics data, such as data captured from one or more vehicle telematics devices indicative of one or more vehicle dynamics, and service data, such as data captured from one or more portable data acquisition devices indicative of one or more service dynamics. In certain embodiments, the fleet management system is configured to associate captured vehicle telematics data with captured service data based on the contextual attributes of each, such as the time, date, and location of data capture. By synching the vehicle telematics data to the service data, the operational data can be uniquely assessed for various operational efficiencies. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING REQUESTS FOR POOLED RESOURCES DURING NON-CONTENTION - A computer system that provides pooled computing resources to clients may receive requests for resources, each of which includes a bid amount. While the supply of resources exceeds the demand, the system may adaptively determine a theoretical bid threshold for the resource pool that represents the predicted value of the lowest bid amount for which corresponding requests will be granted when demand for the resources exceeds supply. The determination may be dependent on a distribution of the bid amounts included in the requests for resources. The system may adaptively determine the lowest bid amount for which corresponding ones of the requests will be granted during non-contention dependent on changes in demand for the resources, the total capacity of the resource pool, and the theoretical bid threshold value, and may grant requests that include higher bid amounts. The use of some resources may be terminated in response to changes in demand. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188535 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REVIEWING AND RATING SCRIPTS TO GENERATE A QUANTIFIABLE SCORE - The present invention discloses a method and system for reviewing script file(s) to provide a quantified quality score. The system includes a server system, a processing module, and a data storage module. The server system is configured to receive the script files from a writer and assign these script files to multiple readers for analysis. The processing module is operatively coupled to the server system for processing the analyzed script files by the plurality of readers. The processor checks the status of individual reviews of the plurality of readers before generating a final score. The data storage module is operatively coupled to the server system and the processing module for storing the script files and the reviewed script files. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188536 | SKILL UPDATE BASED WORK ASSIGNMENT - Skill update based work assignment in one aspect may comprise receiving a worker set identifying a list of workers, current skills associated with the worker set, required skills associated with a set of tickets; classifying the current skills and the required skills to find worker target skills; calculating for each of the workers in the worker set, a worker's updated skill should the worker be assigned to and work on one or more of the set of tickets; and assigning one or more of the set of tickets to one or more of the workers in the worker set whose current skills enable resolving the set of tickets within a predetermined criterion, and based on whether one or more of the workers' updated skills meet the worker target skills. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188537 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROWDSOURCING MAP PRODUCTION - A system, method, and computer program product for producing maps, including a client module for dividing a map production job into smaller tasks; and a worker module for enabling workers to perform said tasks. A test module is provided for enforcing quality standards and includes a qualification module for verifying that a worker is qualified to work on a task, a binary test module for prompting workers to review and pass or fail a submission, a comparative test module for assigning a task to multiple workers and comparing the results, a defacing module for introducing errors into submissions, a client review module for enabling a client to review and pass or fail a submission, and/or an eligibility module for preventing failing workers from contributing to a job. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188538 | SKILL UPDATE BASED WORK ASSIGNMENT - Skill update based work assignment in one aspect may comprise receiving a worker set identifying a list of workers, current skills associated with the worker set, required skills associated with a set of tickets; classifying the current skills and the required skills to find worker target skills; calculating for each of the workers in the worker set, a worker's updated skill should the worker be assigned to and work on one or more of the set of tickets; and assigning one or more of the set of tickets to one or more of the workers in the worker set whose current skills enable resolving the set of tickets within a predetermined criterion, and based on whether one or more of the workers' updated skills meet the worker target skills. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188539 | SNS BASED AUTO SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT SERVICE SYSTEM - Disclosed is an SNS based auto schedule management service system that detects and extracts event information from SNS messages and records corresponding events in a personal schedule management system. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188540 | DELIVERING ELECTRONIC MEETING CONTENT - A method, computer program product, and system for delivering electronic meeting content is described. An electronic meeting is associated with a calendar appointment. Content associated with the electronic meeting is identified. A portion of the content is provided to a computing device associated with a user based upon, at least in part, receiving an indication that the user intends to participate in the electronic meeting, wherein the indication is associated with the calendar appointment | 2014-07-03 |
20140188541 | SITUATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT AWARE CALENDAR, COMMUNICATIONS, AND RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - A situational and global context aware calendar, communications, and/or relationship management method and system is disclosed. The system is configured to receive non-calendaring related context information, and, based on that context information, to automatically determine one or more parameters of a meeting request. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188542 | Methods and Systems for Determining, Characterizing, Addressing and Quantifying Disturbances to Transit System Operation - A method and system for handling an incident affecting a transit agency is provided. The method and system allow for obtaining an indication of the existence of the incident, defining the incident, determining affected items, and securing the affected items as required. The method and system further allow for quantifying the impact of the incident. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188543 | Optimized Bioresources and Bioprocessing - Provided is a system of hardware, software, and business methods for developing a management plan to optimize biomass resources for biochemical production. In particular, the method uses programming and resource data and information input from one or more resource sites to allow a manager to determine optimal allocations of biomass resources for pretreatment industry plants. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188544 | Method and System for Automatically Generating Information Dependencies - A method according to an embodiment of the present invention infers a network of information dependence in real-time by capturing the manner in which computer users interact with files. For example, in an embodiment, such dependencies are represented as a sparse directed network. In another embodiment of the present invention, In another embodiment of the present invention, the dependencies are embedded in an operating system or document management system at a level commensurate with the manner in which professionals use Windows Explorer. | 2014-07-03 |
20140188545 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND PROVIDING WORKFLOW INFORMATION - A tangible computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable program instructions that generate a user interface for displaying workflow information associated with a tissue specimen in a pathology laboratory. The program instructions may be configured to perform a method including displaying a virtual laboratory component representing a physical pathology laboratory having one or more laboratory stations for processing the tissue specimen, wherein the tissue specimen is processed by the one or more laboratory stations according to a workflow, and displaying a specimen indicator that indicates a current specimen state based on a current relationship of the tissue specimen to the workflow. The method may further include enabling a first active component associated with the virtual laboratory component, wherein the first active component is configured to receive a user selection of a laboratory station and generating a supplemental view component of the selected laboratory station in response to the user selection, wherein the supplemental view provides supplemental information on processing by the selected laboratory station of the tissue specimen. | 2014-07-03 |