34th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
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20140236525 | TEST ARCHITECTURE HAVING MULTIPLE FPGA BASED HARDWARE ACCELERATOR BLOCKS FOR TESTING MULTIPLE DUTS INDEPENDENTLY - Automated test equipment (ATE) capable of performing a test of semiconductor devices is presented. The ATE comprises a computer system comprising a system controller communicatively coupled to a tester processor. The system controller is operable to transmit instructions to the processor and the processor is operable to generate commands and data from the instructions for coordinating testing of a plurality of devices under test (DUTs). The ATE further comprises a plurality of FPGA components communicatively coupled to the processor via a bus. Each of the FPGA components comprises at least one hardware accelerator circuit operable to internally generate commands and data transparently from the processor for testing one of the DUTs. Additionally, the tester processor is configured to operate in one of several functional modes, wherein the functional modes are configured to allocate functionality for generating commands and data between the processor and the FPGA components. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236526 | TESTER WITH MIXED PROTOCOL ENGINE IN A FPGA BLOCK - Automated test equipment capable of performing a high-speed test of semiconductor devices is presented. The automated test equipment comprises a system controller for controlling a test program, wherein the system controller is coupled to a bus. The tester system further comprises a plurality of modules also coupled to the bus, where each module is operable to test a plurality of DUTs. Each of the modules comprises a tester processor coupled to the bus and a plurality of configurable blocks communicatively coupled to the tester processor. Each of the configurable blocks is operable to communicate with an associated DUT and further operable to be programmed with a communication protocol for communicating test data to and from said associated device under test. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236527 | CLOUD BASED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING PROTOCOL RECONFIGURATIONS IN PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT DEVICE TESTING SYSTEMS - A method for performing tests using automated test equipment (ATE) is presented. The method comprises obtaining a protocol selection for programming a programmable tester module using a graphical user interface (GUI). It further comprises accessing a configuration file associated with a protocol from a remote computer through a network. Subsequently, it comprises configuring a programmable tester module with a communication protocol for application to at least one device under test (DUT) using the configuration file. Finally, it comprises transmitting instructions to the programmable tester module for executing a program flow, wherein the program flow comprises a sequence of tests for testing the at least one DUT, and receiving results for those tests from the programmable tester module. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236528 | MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR JUNCTION-TO-CASE THERMAL RESISTANCE - A measurement method for a junction-to-case thermal resistance is provided. First, a first transient cooling curve of the chip for the semiconductor device under test (DUT) without grease is measured. Then a second transient cooling curve of the chip for the DUT with grease is measured. A difference ΔT of temperature variations of the two transient cooling curves with and without grease is calculated. The temperature of a constant temperature cold plate for fixing the semiconductor DUT is increased by ΔT, and a third transient cooling curve of the chip for the DUT with grease is measured again. The first transient cooling curve and the third transient cooling curve are used to calculate the junction-to-case thermal resistance. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236529 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Displacement from Acceleration Data | 2014-08-21 |
20140236530 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING AND REWARDING ACTIVITY LEVELS - Systems and methods include a device and an algorithm for measuring adherence to various activity goals (e.g., time-based goals) and collecting ad-hoc game metrics using accelerometers or other sensors. Some embodiments can provide reduced computational, memory, or communications costs over conventional algorithms. In one embodiment, the resulting reduced battery usage can enable a device that is long-lasting, without the need for frequent recharging. This reduction, in turn, can enable the device to be sealed with limited or no external access. Another embodiment can include or interact with social networks and other online data sources to improve activity recognition. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236531 | Synchronizing Accelerometer Data Received from Multiple Accelerometers and Dynamically Compensating for Accelerometer Orientation - Accelerometer data that is received from multiple accelerometers can be synchronized to identify a known movement. This synchronization occurs in real time as the accelerometer data is received from the multiple devices. The orientation of an accelerometer can be compensated for dynamically. By dynamically compensating for the orientation, the user can wear the accelerometers in various orientations without needing to calibrate a portable computing device to account for a particular orientation. Portable devices can have one or more detachable accelerometers. The accelerometers can be detached and placed at virtually any location of a user's body to allow for the detection of custom movements. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236532 | TRAILER LENGTH ESTIMATION - A vehicle has a wireless receiver located a predetermined distance from a trailer mount. A wireless transmitter on the trailer is located at an end of the trailer opposite the end that attaches to a trailer mount on the vehicle and communicates with the wireless receiver on the vehicle. A controller on the vehicle monitors the power returns of the signal transmitted between the transmitter and the receiver. A hitch angle monitoring system monitors hitch angle over time. The controller monitors power returns of a signal transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver and estimates a distance between the transmitter and the receiver as a function of a path loss propagation of the transmitted signal. The trailer length is equal to the distance estimated by the controller at times when the hitch angle is zero minus the predetermined distance. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236533 | Ultrasonic Flow Meter - A method for estimating and correcting or at least reducing phase errors in received ultrasonic signals in an ultrasonic flow meter is disclosed, the method including the steps of: measuring one or more signals in the ultrasonic flow meter, which one or more signals depend on characteristics of one or more ultrasonic transducers in the ultrasonic flow meter, using the one or more measured signals for calculating an estimated phase error value, and using the estimated phase error value for correcting transmission times measured by the ultrasonic flow meter. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS THAT EXHIBIT VARIABLE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS AT DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS - A system and method for translating performance characteristics of a system from one system condition to another system condition includes sensing, at a current system condition, a first system performance parameter and a second system performance parameter. The first and second system performance parameters correspond to a measured performance characteristic value of the system. A first reference performance datum associated with the first and second system performance parameters at the current system condition, and a second reference performance datum associated with the first and second system performance parameters at a selected reference system condition are both retrieved from a memory. A difference between the first and second reference performance data is calculated to generate a translation value. The measured performance characteristic value of the system is then translated an amount equal to the data translation value, whereby a corrected performance characteristic value at the selected reference system condition is generated. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236535 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SOFTSENSING FUEL CELL SYSTEM - Provided are an apparatus and a method for soft-sensing a vehicle or stationary fuel cell system capable of predicting a quality variable based on a process variable and providing the predicted quality variable in real time. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236536 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Analyte Monitoring and Therapy Management System Accuracy - Methods, system and devices for providing improved calibration accuracy of continuous glucose monitoring system based on insulin delivery information are provided. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236537 | METHOD OF DETERMINING STATIONARY SIGNALS FOR THE DIAGNOSTICS OF AN ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM - The present invention is concerned with a method of determining stationary signals for the diagnostics of an electromechanical systems in which electrical rotating machinery is used and in which at least one electrical or mechanical signal is measured during an operation of the electromechanical system. The method is used especially for condition monitoring of electric motors and generators. The method consists of
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20140236538 | Methods, Systems and Devices for Linking User Devices to Activity Tracking Devices - Methods, systems and devices for linking devices to tracking devices is provided. One method includes scanning, by an activity tracking device, for a semi-unique identifier broadcasted by a device. The method connects the device with the activity tracking device after the semi-unique identifier is found to be of the device by the activity tracking device. The activity tracking device is configured to communicate with the device to obtain a device identification (ID) of the device. The method then automatically linking the device to the activity tracking device when the device ID of the device matches a copy of the device ID stored in the activity tracking device. In one example, the tracking devices operate as a master and the devices operate as a slave. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236539 | DIGITAL MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT TRIGGERED BY SIGNAL PATTERN - A measurement instrument receives an analog input signal from a measurement target, converts the input signal into a digital signal, scans the digital signal and comparing the scanned digital signal with a pattern signature using a flexible matching procedure implemented by hardware, and triggers the measurement instrument according to a result of the flexible matching procedure. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236540 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A signal processing method and a signal processing system are provided. The signal processing method comprises the following steps. An original signal is provided. The original signal is gradually divided to be corresponding a plurality of stages. One high frequency signal and one low frequency signal whose frequency is lower than that of the high frequency signal are corresponding one of the stages. One of the low frequency signals corresponding to one of the stages is divided into another one of the high frequency signals and another one of the low frequency signals corresponding to the next one of the stages. An adjusting signal is obtained by filtering one of the low frequency signals out of another one of the low frequency signals. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236541 | VIRTUAL REALITY DESIGN APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a virtual reality design apparatus and a method thereof, which previously design a construction environment the same as reality before the construction by photographing a construction material and applying the image of the construction material to a design space. The virtual reality design device includes a construction image acquiring unit to acquire an image of a design space, and acquire an image of a real construction material, or an existing construction environment, an input unit to input mapping information to the image, and input a function to realize a virtual reality design, a control unit to control storage of the image, and control execution of a design application according to the functions, and a design application executing unit to execute the stored design application and create a design identical to reality under a control of the control unit. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236542 | INTERIOR SPACES IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus, and system of interior spaces in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a plurality of user profiles, each user profile in the plurality of user profiles including an associated specific geographic location. A user profile in the plurality of user profiles is selected. A first virtual interior space view of a first structure associated with a first specific geographic location of the selected user profile in the plurality of user profiles is generated. At least one claimable profile associated with the first virtual interior space view is generated with the first interior space view. Content, generating with the at least one claimable profile, may be appended to the at least one claimable profile. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236543 | SIZING APPLICATION FOR A TOILET BOWL TRAPPING DEVICE - A method, an apparatus and a system for sizing a trapping device for trapping non-dispersing cloths and/or other materials in a toilet bowl and/or a hopper sink are disclosed. A computer device may be used to implement the method for sizing one or more trapping devices for installation at a facility, such as a medical institution. The computer device may be configured to determine a configuration of a trapway for each of one or more toilet bowls and/or hopper sinks at the facility. After determining the configuration, the computer device may determine a size of a trapping device corresponding to the determined configuration of each of the one or more trapways. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236544 | DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF THE BIOMARKERS LEVERAGING THE DYNAMICS OF THE BIOMARKER - A system and method for providing a temporally dynamic model parameter include building a model parameter by minimizing a loss function based on patient measurements taken at a plurality of time points. Temporally related values of the model parameter are identified, using a processor, having a same type of patient measurement taken at different time points. At least one value of the model parameter and temporally related values of the at least one value are selected to provide a temporally dynamic model parameter. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236545 | DYNAMIC IDENTIFICATION OF THE BIOMARKERS LEVERAGING THE DYNAMICS OF THE BIOMARKER - A system and method for providing a temporally dynamic model parameter include building a model parameter by minimizing a loss function based on patient measurements taken at a plurality of time points. Temporally related values of the model parameter are identified, using a processor, having a same type of patient measurement taken at different time points. At least one value of the model parameter and temporally related values of the at least one value are selected to provide a temporally dynamic model parameter. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236546 | CROSS-DIPOLE ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS - An apparatus has an improved antenna pattern for a cross dipole antenna. Such antennas desirably have an omnidirectional antenna pattern. Conventional cross dipole antennas exhibit nulls in their antenna patterns, which can cause antennas to deviate from a standard or specification. Applicant recognized and confirmed that the connection of a coaxial cable to the antenna arms is a cause of the nulls in the antenna pattern, and has devised techniques disclosed herein to compensate or cancel the effects of the connection. In one embodiment, the arms of the cross dipole antenna that are coupled to a center conductor of the coaxial cable remain of conventional length, but the arms of the cross dipole antenna that are coupled to a shield of the coaxial cable are lengthened by a fraction of the radius of the outer diameter of the coaxial cable. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236547 | PATIENT-SPECIFIC AUTOMATED TUNING OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR DISTAL VESSEL TREE - Boundary conditions for a distal vessel tree are modeled and tuned to a specific patient. Measurements from the patient are used to find reference compliance and resistance for the root of the distal vessel tree model. The reference compliance and resistance are used to tune properties of a structured tree model, such as by iteratively solving for the properties while matching the compliance and resistance of the structured tree model to the patient-specific reference compliance and reference resistance. The tuned structured tree is then used to calculate boundary conditions for computing flow of a scanned vessel of the patient. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236548 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING A MATERIAL - A method of designing a material by optimising values for design variables includes the steps of: (i) providing one or more property models that produce a prediction for a value of a respective property of the material as a function of the design variables and produce a value for the uncertainty in the prediction, (ii) setting a specification target for a desired value for each property and a probability for that specification target to be met or exceeded, (iii) determining a probabilistic target for a value for each property, the probabilistic target being based on the specification target and the probability, and defining a merit index factor based on the degree to which a given prediction satisfies the probabilistic target, (iv) constructing an overall merit factor from the individual merit index factors of the properties, and (v) determining a set of optimal design variables that optimise the overall merit factor. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236549 | Method for exploiting a geological reservoir by means of a matched reservoir model consistent with the flow properties - The invention relates to a method for exploiting (EX) a geological reservoir according to an exploitation scheme (SE) defined on the basis of a matched reservoir model (CAL) with static data and dynamic data. For this method, a first reservoir model (MR) displaying a certain consistency with respect to the flow properties of the medium is preselected. This preselected model (MR) is then used as starting point for the history matching process (CAL). | 2014-08-21 |
20140236550 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MULTI-USER CAX EDITING DATA CONSISTENCY - A multi-user CAx editing system may comprise a plurality of editing clients. The editing clients may be configured to maintain data consistency for geometric elements created within each local instance of a model of an engineering object. For example, each of the plurality of editing clients may include a synchronization module configured to identify one or more distinguishing parameters for each locally created geometric element and generate a unique persistent label for the geometric element, and communicate the unique persistent label and the distinguishing parameters to other editing clients. The communication may occur via a collaborative editing server. The other editing clients may find a geometric element within their local instance of the model that matches the distinguishing parameters and associate the unique persistent label with that geometric element. Subsequent references to the geometric element may be made by referring to the unique persistent label. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236551 | COMPUTER SIMULATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS - A method and system is provided for solving for electromagnetic fields by approximating an electromagnetic function as a sum of basis functions multiplied by coefficients to be determined. The set of equations used to determine the coefficients results from taking derivatives of the action integral with respect to the coefficients (and/or other parameters) and setting the derivative equal to zero, thereby extremizing the action integral. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236552 | ENVIRONMENTAL TEST CHAMBER FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS - The environmental test chamber for wireless sensor networks includes a structural enclosure having peripheral walls. A dynamic topology builder is a hanging mechanism disposed in a ceiling portion of the structure and is used to suspend the wireless devices below the ceiling portion via a cable. A weather conditioning machine simulating environmental conditions is disposed in at least one of peripheral walls. A controller sends commands to control the suspension height of the wireless units and to control environmental parameters of the weather conditioning machine. This allows the test chamber to test the communication and networking aspects of the wireless sensor network devices in different environmental conditions, such as sand storms and different temperatures, and humidity levels, within a 3-D topology specified by the controller. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236553 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODEL OF BLOOD FLOW - Embodiments include a system for providing blood flow information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system including a touchscreen. The at least one computer system may be configured to display, on the touchscreen, a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of an anatomical structure of the patient based on patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may also be configured to receive a first input relating to a first location on the touchscreen indicated by at least one pointing object controlled by a user, and the first location on the touchscreen may indicate a first location on the displayed three-dimensional model. The at least one computer system may be further configured to display first information on the touchscreen, and the first information may indicate a blood flow characteristic at the first location. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236554 | Generating A Non-Deterministic Model of a Process for a Goal - A method and a system of generating a non-deterministic model of an artifact system for a received goal are provided. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236555 | INTEGRATED SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY - Virtual material handling systems can be used to drive the operation of real material handling systems for purposes such as testing and validation of the components of the real material handling systems. The real material handling system, in turn, can provide data regarding system operation which may be fed back to the virtual material handling system to control its function. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236556 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIMULATION APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND SIMULATION METHOD - A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate processing apparatus, including: a substrate processing chamber configured to accommodate a substrate and process the substrate; a piping coupled to the substrate processing chamber to allow a gas for processing the substrate to be introduced therethrough; and a simulation apparatus configured to simulate a path in which the gas for processing the substrate flows through the piping. The simulation apparatus includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire gas flow information defined by an operation mode in which the substrate is processed; a path determination unit configured to determine a gas path based on the gas flow information acquired by the information acquisition unit; and a simulation unit configured to simulate a flow of the gas by putting a color defined according to the type of gas on the gas path determined by the path determination unit. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236557 | MODELING OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS IN SUBTERRANEAN RESERVOIRS - A computer-implemented reservoir prediction system, method, and software are provided for modeling the behavior of non-Newtonian fluids in subterranean reservoirs while accounting for shear-rate dependent viscosity and permeability reduction with a skin zone characterized by a traditional skin factor and an apparent skin factor. A non-Newtonian fluid injection pressure or a non-Newtonian fluid injection rate is computed at steady-state responsive to reservoir data associated with a subterranean reservoir, injection data for a non-Newtonian fluid, and fluid data for the non-Newtonian fluid. The shear-rate dependent viscosity can further be applied to a well model in numerical reservoir simulation to improve the well model. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236558 | Method For Partitioning Parallel Reservoir Simulations In the Presence of Wells - A method is disclosed for partitioning a grid representing a hydrocarbon reservoir. The grid is composed of a plurality of cells. A connectivity graph of nodes and edges is created. Each of the plurality of cells is represented by a node. Edges connect neighboring nodes. An edge that should not be cut by a partitioning algorithm is designated. Nodes connected by the designated edge are merged into a supernode. A first edge connecting a merged node and a non-merged node is replaced with a second edge connecting the non-merged node with the supernode. The connectivity graph is used with the supernode and the replaced edges to partition the grid. Nodes merged into supernodes are maintained in a single subdomain during partitioning. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236559 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR MODELING COMPLEX WELLBORES IN FIELD-SCALE RESERVOIR SIMULATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a near-well unstructured grid model builder for generating a full-field unstructured grid for reservoir simulation. As described further below, the near-well unstructured grid model builder may include a workflow interface and a parallel unstructured grid model builder. The inputs to the near-well unstructured grid model builder may include existing well trajectory and completion data, future well data, a geological model, a structured grid simulation model, or any combination thereof. The near-well unstructured grid model builder may output a near-well unstructured grid having a specified grid resolution in regions of interest that include a well. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236560 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN INVENTORY OF THE HARDWARE COMPONENTS CONNECTED TO A CONTROL UNIT TEST SYSTEM - A method for performing an inventory of the hardware components connected to a control unit test system, wherein control units can be tested with the test system in an environment simulated by the test system by means of a model, and wherein the test system comprises at least one computer) and hardware components that are connected to one another by means of at least one network. For at least a portion of the hardware components, in particular of all simulation-specific hardware components, at least one item of component information that uniquely and digitally identifies the hardware component is read therefrom, and all identifying component information that has been read out is stored. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236561 | EFFICIENT VALIDATION OF COHERENCY BETWEEN PROCESSOR CORES AND ACCELERATORS IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS - A method of testing cache coherency in a computer system design allocates different portions of a single cache line for use by accelerators and processors. The different portions of the cache line can have different sizes, and the processors and accelerators can operate in the simulation at different frequencies. The verification system can control execution of the instructions to invoke different modes of the coherency mechanism such as direct memory access or cache intervention. The invention provides a further opportunity to test any accelerator having an original function and an inverse function by allocating cache lines to generate an original function output, allocating cache lines to generate an inverse function output based on the original function output, and verifying correctness of the original and inverse functions by comparing the inverse function output to the original function input. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236562 | Resource Mapping in a Hardware Emulation Environment - A system and method is disclosed in an emulation environment that dynamically remaps user designs. In one embodiment, a request is received to load an integrated circuit design to be emulated in a desired partition within the emulator. The emulator automatically determines the availability of the partition requested. If the partition is not available, the design is dynamically remapped to a different partition that is available. In another embodiment, clocks associated with the integrated circuit design are also dynamically remapped. In yet another embodiment, the user can control the size of the partitions (e.g., the number of printed circuit boards in a partition). | 2014-08-21 |
20140236563 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SIMULATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - Provided is an integrated circuit simulation method. The simulation time points of the entire circuit are divided into a plurality of independent simulation time windows, and according to a logic simulation result, the simulation initial data of the simulation window starting point of each simulation time window is determined, and as an overlapping time region is present at the head-tail connection between adjacent simulation time windows, the circuit simulation calculation of the current simulation time window can be ended at the overlapping time region, so as to implement independent parallel simulation calculation for each simulation time window. Therefore, the time required for the simulation of the entire circuit is approximately the maximum value of the circuit simulation time required for each simulation time window, thereby greatly increasing the efficiency of circuit simulation and effectively shortening the design period of the integrated circuit. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236564 | COVERAGE MODEL AND MEASUREMENTS FOR PARTIAL INSTRUMENTATION - A computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for instrumentation coverage. The method comprising: determining an instrumentation coverage model of a system having components, the instrumentation coverage model defining instrumentation tasks of the system, wherein each instrumentation task defines a subset of the components to be monitored; and monitoring the system by a computer, wherein during said monitoring applying a plurality of partial instrumentation tasks defining strict subsets of the components to be monitored. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236565 | ROBOT SIMULATOR, ROBOT TEACHING APPARATUS AND ROBOT TEACHING METHOD - A robot simulator includes a generating unit, a display unit, a display control unit, and a simulation instructing unit. The generating unit generates a virtual image that includes a virtual robot obtained by imaging an actual robot having at least one axis and an operation handle capable of operating three-dimensional coordinate axes having a predetermined control point of the virtual robot as the origin. The display control unit displays on the display unit the generated virtual image. The simulation instructing unit, when an operator's operation for the operation handle is received, acquires at least one of a displacement amount of the control point and a rotation amount of the three-dimensional coordinate axes attributable to the operator's operation, and instructs the generating unit to regenerate the virtual image in which a posture of the virtual robot is changed in accordance with the displacement amount or the rotation amount thus acquired. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236566 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF SETTING UP LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SERVICES - The invention relates to a computer system and method of setting up language translation services. The computer system is programmed to implement at least: a registration module configured to receive translator profile data via a telecommunication network from human translators, and to store the translator profile data, the translator profile data including at least one source language and one target language; a service request module configured to receive translation request data via the telecommunication network from clients, and to store the translation request data, the translation request data including at least a source language and a target language; and a matching module configured to determine a set of human translators suitable for a translation request received from a client, using the translator profile data and the translation request data, and to set up a communication link between the client and a human translator selected from the set of human translators. In particular, the computer system enables translation for a client contacting a human translator or translation in a triangle client—human translator—communication partner, wherein oral or written translation services in particular of telephone calls, e-mails, sms messages, pictures containing text, etc. are instantly provided. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236567 | CONTEXTUAL, FOCUS-BASED TRANSLATION FOR BROADCAST AUTOMATION SOFTWARE - Contextual, focus-based language translation within a broadcast radio automation software application allows the user interface to enable interaction with users having various written or graphical language requirements. The software does not require special training or learning to enable the translation of text within the application. When the user enters a translation mode and selects a text string in the original language, the program displays a corresponding text string in a second language based on the specific display area, e.g., child window. The translated text string can be displayed proximate to original first text string within the specific display area, and can further be displayed as an entry in a table of a translation window which also displays additional text strings in the second language corresponding to additional text string fields for the specific display area. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236568 | INPUT METHOD TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE LANGUAGES - A method and system for displaying words with a script corresponding to the language of the words, where an input word is received and the system determines whether the word is in a first language list. If the word is in the first language list, the word is displayed in a first script. If the word is not in the first language list, the word is converted to a different script corresponding to a different language, and displayed in the different script. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236569 | Disambiguation of Dependent Referring Expression in Natural Language Processing - A system, and computer program product for disambiguation of dependent referring expression in natural language processing are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A portion of a document in a set of document is selected, the portion including a set of dependent referring expression instances. The portion is filtered to identify an instance from a set of dependent referring expression instances by using a linguistic characteristic of the instance, the instance of dependent referring expression referring to a full expression occurring in the set of documents. The full expression is located in one member document in the set of documents by locating where the dependent referring expression is defined to be a stand-in for the full expression. The instance is resolved using the full expression such that information about the full expression is available at a location of the instance. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236570 | EXPLOITING THE SEMANTIC WEB FOR UNSUPERVISED SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING - An unsupervised training approach for Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems uses the structure of content sources (e.g. semantic knowledge graphs, relational databases, . . . ) to automatically specify a semantic representation for SLU. The semantic representation is used when creating entity-relation patterns that are used to mine natural language (NL) examples (e.g. NL surface forms from the web and search query click logs). The structure of the content source (e.g. semantic graph) is enriched with the mined NL examples. The NL examples and patterns may be used to automatically train SLU systems in an unsupervised manner that covers the knowledge represented in the structured content. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236571 | Inducing and Applying a Subject-Targeted Context Free Grammar - A processing system is described which induces a context free grammar (CFG) based on a set of descriptions. The descriptions pertain to a particular subject. Thus, the CFG targets the particular subject, and is accordingly referred to as a subject-targeted context free grammar (ST-CFG). The processing system can use the ST-CFG to determine whether a new description is a proper description of the subject. The processing system also provides synthesizing functionality for building an ST-CFG based on one or more smaller component ST-CFGs. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236572 | System Apparatus Circuit Method and Associated Computer Executable Code for Natural Language Understanding and Semantic Content Discovery - Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, circuits and methods for extrapolating meaning from vocalized speech or otherwise obtained text. Speech of a speaking user is sampled and digitized, the digitized speech is converted into a text stream, the text stream derived from speech or otherwise obtained is analyzed syntactically and semantically, a knowledgebase in the specific context domain of the text stream is utilized to construct one or more semantic/syntactic domain specific query analysis constrains/rule-sets, and a “Domain Specific Knowledgebase Query” (DSKQ) or set of queries is built at least partially based on the domain specific query analysis constrains/rule-sets. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236573 | Automatic Semantic Rating and Abstraction of Literature - Deep semantic analysis is performed on an electronic literary work in order to detect plot elements and optional other storyline elements such as characters within the work. Multiple levels of abstract are generated into a model representing the literary work, wherein each element in each abstraction level may be independently rated for preference by a user. Through comparison of multiple abstraction models and one or more user rating preferences, one or more alternative literary works may be automatically recommended to the user. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236574 | AUTOMATED CONTEXT-BASED UNIQUE LETTER GENERATION - The automated generation of a unique letter or unique letters using one or more context variables for the letter. The contextual variables may represent author characteristics, audience characteristics, tone, word diversification, letter type, and so forth. Different entropy may be used for each letter to thereby generate a unique letter even if the context for the letters is the same. Nevertheless, each unique letter is suitable for the given context. If desired, the automatically generated letter may be further edited, for example, for grammatical, word choice, or legal content. Thus, the letter may appear to be custom drafted by a human for the context, whereas the letter was entirely or substantially computer-generated. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236575 | EXPLOITING THE SEMANTIC WEB FOR UNSUPERVISED NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTIC PARSING - Structured web pages are accessed and parsed to obtain implicit annotation for natural language understanding tasks. Search queries that hit these structured web pages are automatically mined for information that is used to semantically annotate the queries. The automatically annotated queries may be used for automatically building statistical unsupervised slot filling models without using a semantic annotation guideline. For example, tags that are located on a structured web page that are associated with the search query may be used to annotate the query. The mined search queries may be filtered to create a set of queries that is in a form of a natural language query and/or remove queries that are difficult to parse. A natural language model may be trained using the resulting mined queries. Some queries may be set aside for testing and the model may be adapted using in-domain sentences that are not annotated. The models may be tested using these implicitly annotated natural-language-like queries in an unsupervised fashion. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236576 | Automatic Text Skimming Using Lexical Chains - Automatic text skimming using lexical chains may be provided. First, at least one lexical chain may be created from an electronic document. Next, a list of positions within the electronic document may be created. The positions may include where at least one concept represented by one of the at least one lexical chain is mentioned. In addition, a list of the position where the at least one concept is mentioned may be assembled. A selection of at least one concept may be received from the list. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236577 | Semantic Representations of Rare Words in a Neural Probabilistic Language Model - Systems and methods are disclosed for representing a word by extracting n-dimensions for the word from an original language model; if the word has been previously processed, use values previously chosen to define an (n+m) dimensional vector and otherwise randomly selecting m values to define the (n+m) dimensional vector; and applying the (n+m) dimensional vector to represent words that are not well-represented in the language model. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236578 | Question-Answering by Recursive Parse Tree Descent - Systems and methods are disclosed to answer free form questions using recursive neural network (RNN) by defining feature representations at every node of a parse trees of questions and supporting sentences, when applied recursively, starting with token vectors from a neural probabilistic language model; and extracting answers to arbitrary natural language questions from supporting sentences. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236579 | Method and Device for Performing Natural Language Searches - A digital device and a method for parsing a query, in particular a natural language query, and retrieving results from possibly multiple data sources such as relational databases or the Semantic Web. The method includes a parsing procedure for generating a graph-based logical representation of the query using semantically structured resources, consisting of a tokenizer, a node generator, a relationship generator, and a focus identificator. The digital device realizes a modularized architecture, consisting of a parser enabling the processing of a query with possibly multiple vocabularies, a query performer retrieving data of knowledge sources independently from their database management system, and a result processor merging the results. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236580 | TEXT SEGMENTATION AND LABEL ASSIGNMENT WITH USER INTERACTION BY MEANS OF TOPIC SPECIFIC LANGUAGE MODELS, AND TOPIC-SPECIFIC LABEL STATISTICS - The invention relates to a method, a computer program product, a segmentation system and a user interface for structuring an unstructured text by making use of statistical models trained on annotated training data. The method performs text segmentation into text sections and assigns labels to text sections as section headings. The performed segmentation and assignment is provided to a user for general review. Additionally, alternative segmentations and label assignments are provided to the user being capable to select alternative segmentations and alternative labels as well as to enter a user defined segmentation and user defined label. In response to the modifications introduced by the user, a plurality of different actions are initiated incorporating the re-segmentation and re-labeling of successive parts of the document or the entire document | 2014-08-21 |
20140236581 | VOICE SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD, VOICE SIGNAL DECODING METHOD, AND APPARATUS USING SAME - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a voice signal, and the voice signal encoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: generating transform coefficients of sine wave components forming an input voice signal by transforming the sine wave components; determining transform coefficients to be encoded from the generated transform coefficients; and transmitting indication information indicating the determined transform coefficients, wherein the indication information may include position information, magnitude information, and sign information of the transform coefficients. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236582 | LOW POWER VOICE DETECTION - Methods of enabling voice processing with minimal power consumption includes recording time-domain audio signal at a first clock frequency and a first voltage, and performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operations on the time-domain audio signal at a second clock frequency to generate frequency-domain audio signal. The frequency domain audio signal may be enhanced to obtain better signal to noise ratio, through one or multiple filtering and enhancing techniques. The enhanced audio signal may be used to generate the total signal energy and estimate the background noise energy. Decision logic may determine from the signal energy and the background noise, the presence or absence of the human voice. The first clock frequency may be different from the second clock frequency. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236583 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN INTERPOLATION FACTOR SET - A method for determining an interpolation factor set by an electronic device is described. The method includes determining a value based on a current frame property and a previous frame property. The method also includes determining whether the value is outside of a range. The method further includes determining an interpolation factor set based on the value and a prediction mode indicator if the value is outside of the range. The method additionally includes synthesizing a speech signal. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236584 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIZING AND DEQUANTIZING PHASE INFORMATION - A method for quantizing phase information on an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a speech signal. The method also includes determining a prototype pitch period signal based on the speech signal and transforming the prototype pitch period signal into a first frequency-domain signal. The method additionally includes mapping the first frequency-domain signal into a plurality of subbands. The method also includes determining a global alignment based on the first frequency-domain signal and quantizing the global alignment utilizing scalar quantization to obtain a quantized global alignment. The method additionally includes determining a plurality of band alignments corresponding to the plurality of subbands. The method also includes quantizing the plurality of band alignments utilizing vector quantization to obtain a quantized plurality of band alignments. The method further includes transmitting the quantized global alignment and the quantized plurality of band alignments. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING PITCH PULSE PERIOD SIGNAL BOUNDARIES - A method for determining pitch pulse period signal boundaries by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a signal. The method also includes determining a first averaged curve based on the signal. The method further includes determining at least one first averaged curve peak position based on the first averaged curve and a threshold. The method additionally includes determining pitch pulse period signal boundaries based on the at least one first averaged curve peak position. The method also includes synthesizing a speech signal. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236586 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING MESSAGES AMONGST A NODE, DEVICE AND A USER OF A DEVICE - An method and apparatus that modifies static media, such as music files being played to a user of the device, upon the generation or receipt of an alert, notification or message, so that information in the alert, notification or message can be incorporated into the media files then communicated to the user. In a further embodiment, a user's response to the communicated information can be sensed using one or more sensors and transducers so as to provide feedback to the device, and then optionally to a node in a system. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING AN AVERAGE ENCODING RATE - A method for controlling an average encoding rate by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a speech signal. The method also includes determining a first average rate. The method further includes determining a first threshold based on the first average rate. The method additionally includes controlling the average encoding rate by determining at least one other threshold based on the first threshold. The method also includes sending an encoded speech signal. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236588 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING POTENTIAL FRAME INSTABILITY - A method for mitigating potential frame instability by an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a frame subsequent in time to an erased frame. The method also includes determining whether the frame is potentially unstable. The method further includes applying a substitute weighting value to generate a stable frame parameter if the frame is potentially unstable. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236589 | MITIGATING AUDIBLE CROSS TALK - Audible crosstalk can be mitigated in a low-cost three-wire device having audio capability and/or voice applications. In some embodiments, a voltage can be introduced in a microphone power supply that is approximately the same as a measured noise voltage and the resulting voltage appearing at a microphone output can be optimized to mitigate the noise voltage and, thus, the presence of crosstalk. In some embodiments, a microphone within a circuit can be isolated to mitigate crosstalk by introducing current into a circuit that is approximately the same as a measured current, but having a flow in an opposite direction. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236590 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND VOICE PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR - A voice processing method for use in a communication apparatus, in an embodiment, includes the following steps. A near-end audio signal is received by at least one microphone of the communication apparatus. Voice and noise energy data are generated by performing voice activity detection on the near-end audio signal. A noise amount is obtained by performing noise energy calculation with the noise energy data. Whether the noise amount exceeds a first noise amount threshold is determined. If the noise amount exceeds the first noise amount threshold, a sidetone mode of the communication apparatus is enabled to produce a sidetone signal according to the voice energy data and play the sidetone signal through a speaker thereof. A noise suppression mode is enabled to produce a far-end audio signal according to the voice energy data and transmitting the far-end audio signal by a communication module of the communication apparatus. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236591 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - A method of recognizing speech is provided that includes generating a decoding network that includes a primary sub-network and a classification sub-network. The primary sub-network includes a classification node corresponding to the classification sub-network. The classification sub-network corresponds to a group of uncommon words. A speech input is received and decoded by instantiating a token in the primary sub-network and passing the token through the primary network. When the token reaches the classification node, the method includes transferring the token to the classification sub-network and passing the token through the classification sub-network. When the token reaches an accept node of the classification sub-network, the method includes returning a result of the token passing through the classification sub-network to the primary sub-network. The result includes one or more words in the group of uncommon words. A string corresponding to the speech input is output that includes the one or more words. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236592 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATHERING RESEARCH DATA - Methods and systems are provided for gathering research data that includes information pertaining to audio signals received on a portable device, such as a cell phone. Frequency domain data is received or produced, a signature is extracted from the frequency domain data and an ancillary code is read from the frequency domain data. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236593 | SPEAKER RECOGNITION METHOD THROUGH EMOTIONAL MODEL SYNTHESIS BASED ON NEIGHBORS PRESERVING PRINCIPLE - A speaker recognition method through emotional model synthesis based on Neighbors Preserving Principle is enclosed. The methods includes the following steps: (1) training the reference speaker's and user's speech models; (2) extracting the neutral-to-emotion transformation/mapping sets of GMM reference models; (3) extracting the emotion reference Gaussian components mapped by or corresponding to several Gaussian neutral reference Gaussian components close to the user's neutral training Gaussian component; (4) synthesizing the user's emotion training Gaussian component and then synthesizing the user's emotion training model; (5) synthesizing all user's GMM training models; (6) inputting test speech and conducting the identification. This invention extracts several reference speeches similar to the neutral training speech of a user from a speech library by employing neighbor preserving principles based on KL divergence and combines an emotion training speech of the user using the emotion reference speech in the reference speech, improving the performance of the speaker recognition system in the situation where the training speech and the test speech are mismatched, and the robustness of the speaker recognition system is increased. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236594 | ASSISTIVE DEVICE FOR CONVERTING AN AUDIO SIGNAL INTO A VISUAL REPRESENTATION - A device for converting an audio signal into a visual representation, the device comprising at least one receiver for receiving the audio signal; a signal processing unit for processing the received audio signal; a converter for converting the processed audio signal into a visual representation; and projecting means for projecting the visual representation onto a display, wherein the display comprises an embedded grating structure. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236595 | RECOGNIZING ACCENTED SPEECH - Techniques ( | 2014-08-21 |
20140236596 | EMOTION DETECTION IN VOICEMAIL - Methods and apparatus for processing a voicemail message to generate a textual representation of at least a portion of the voicemail message. At least one emotion expressed in the voicemail message is determined by applying at least one emotion classifier to the voicemail message and/or the textual representation. An indication of the determined at least one emotion is provided in a manner associated with the textual representation of the at least a portion of the voicemail message. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPERVISED CREATION OF PERSONALIZED SPEECH SAMPLES LIBRARIES IN REAL-TIME FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS - A system and method for supervised creation of a speech samples library for text-to speech synthesis are provided. The method includes tracking at least one speech unit in an existing speech samples library to determine if the existing speech samples library achieves a desired quality; receiving at least one speech sample; analyzing the at least one received speech sample to identify at least one speech unit necessitated to obtain the desired quality of the speech samples library; and storing the at least one necessary speech unit in the speech samples library. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236598 | Methods and Systems for Sharing of Adapted Voice Profiles - Methods and systems for sharing of adapted voice profiles are provided. The method may comprise receiving, at a computing system, one or more speech samples, and the one or more speech samples may include a plurality of spoken utterances. The method may further comprise determining, at the computing system, a voice profile associated with a speaker of the plurality of spoken utterances, and including an adapted voice of the speaker. Still further, the method may comprise receiving, at the computing system, an authorization profile associated with the determined voice profile, and the authorization profile may include one or more user identifiers associated with one or more respective users. Yet still further, the method may comprise the computing system providing the voice profile to at least one computing device associated with the one or more respective users, based at least in part on the authorization profile. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236599 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETED TUNING OF A SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A system and method of targeted tuning of a speech recognition system are disclosed. A particular method includes detecting that a frequency of occurrence of a particular type of utterance satisfies a threshold. The method further includes tuning a speech recognition system with respect to the particular type of utterance. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236600 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR KEYWORD DETECTION - An electronic device with one or more processors and memory trains an acoustic model with an international phonetic alphabet (IPA) phoneme mapping collection and audio samples in different languages, where the acoustic model includes: a foreground model; and a background model. The device generates a phone decoder based on the trained acoustic model. The device collects keyword audio samples, decodes the keyword audio samples with the phone decoder to generate phoneme sequence candidates, and selects a keyword phoneme sequence from the phoneme sequence candidates. After obtaining the keyword phoneme sequence, the device detects one or more keywords in an input audio signal with the trained acoustic model, including: matching phonemic keyword portions of the input audio signal with phonemes in the keyword phoneme sequence with the foreground model; and filtering out phonemic non-keyword portions of the input audio signal with the background model. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236601 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In an agent function, when a character image in motion is displayed, a number of the character images to be displayed is changed, depending on whether or not a speech utterance of a user is being received. In other words, during receipt the speech utterance of the user, the communication apparatus sends the character images to the vehicle-mounted apparatus at a first reduced frequency. Thus, even when a process of receiving the speech utterance and a process of displaying the character images are concurrently performed, the vehicle-mounted apparatus is not overloaded with the processes. Therefore, a stopping state of a process caused by overload of the vehicle-mounted apparatus with processes can be prevented and stoppage of the motion of the character image can also be prevented even during the receipt of the speech utterance. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236602 | Synthesizing Vowels and Consonants of Speech - For speech synthesis, a vowel module sequentially applies a vowel filter set to form a vowel with a source signal. The vowel filter set is selected from a logical arc traversing a vowel filter array. The vowel filter array includes a plurality of vowel filters organized as a logical space. Vowel filters traversed by the logical arc are selected. A consonant module sequentially applies a consonant filter set from a consonant filter array to form a consonant with the source signal. The consonant filter set is selected in response to a discrete consonant value. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236603 | AUDIO CODING DEVICE AND METHOD - An audio coding device that performs predictive coding on a third-channel signal included in a plurality of channels in an audio signal according to a first-channel signal and a second-channel signal, which are included in the plurality of channels, and to a plurality of channel prediction coefficients included in a coding book, the device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, selecting channel prediction coefficients corresponding to the first-channel signal and the second-channel signal so that an error, which is determined by a difference between the third-channel signal before predictive coding and the third-channel signal after predictive coding, is minimized; and controlling the first-channel signal or the second-channel signal so that the error is further reduced. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236604 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A LEVEL PARAMETER AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A MULTI-CHANNEL REPRESENTATION - A parameter representation of a multi-channel signal having several original channels includes a parameter set, which, when used together with at least one down-mix channel allows a multi-channel reconstruction. An additional level parameter is calculated such that an energy of the at least one downmix channel weighted by the level parameter is equal to a sum of energies of the original channels. The additional level parameter is transmitted to a multi-channel reconstructor together with the parameter set or together with a down-mix channel. An apparatus for generating a multi-channel representation uses the level parameter to correct the energy of the at least one transmitted down-mix channel before entering the down-mix signal into an upmixer or within the up-mixing process. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236605 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM - An encoder for providing an audio stream on the basis of a transform-domain representation of an input audio signal includes a quantization error calculator configured to determine a multi-band quantization error over a plurality of frequency bands of the input audio signal for which separate band gain information is available. The encoder also includes an audio stream provider for providing the audio stream such that the audio stream includes information describing an audio content of the frequency bands and information describing the multi-band quantization error. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236606 | MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The medication management system is divided into hospital server, pharmacy server, and patient mobile device. The hospital server and pharmacy server contain all patient active and inactive medication profiles. The hospital software runs on the hospital server, which is an intermediary between the pharmacy software (PMR—Pharmacy Medication Records) and the patient software. The platform can communicate with different types of pharmacy data bases and software, and at the same time can be used as a type of an encoding and decoding platform to convert from one pharmacy database to anther automatically and eliminate the long tedious effort done by humans to do it manually. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236607 | GENETIC DATABASE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for performing an analysis of a subject's genome, transcriptome and/or epigenome is described. The identities of a predetermined number of, such as ten or more, characteristics in the subject's genome, transcriptome and/or epigenome which are associated with one or more particular phenotype(s) or an increased risk of a particular phenotype are determined by performing an analytical technique upon a biological sample obtained from the subject. The amounts of any royalties or fees required for determination of the identities of one or more of the ten or more characteristics in the subject's genome, transcriptome and/or epigenome are determined via a computer. The amount of a fee charged for a determination of the identities of the ten or more characteristics in the subject's genome, transcriptome and/or epigenome are adjusted via a computer to reflect the amount of the determined royalties or fees and/or the amount of a fee for a future treatment of the subject. A database accessed during the method is also described. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236608 | SAMPLING OF MEDICAL DEVICES, AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - Systems, methods, and computer storage mediums provide a medical device sample to a medical service provider. Embodiments of the present invention relate to equipping a computing device with the ability to automatically identify a need by a medical professional to use a medical device sample in a medical procedure. The computing device identifies the need of the medical professional for the medical device sample based on a medical procedure code that informs the computing device of the scheduled medical procedure and the requirements for executing the medical procedure. The computing device automatically searches medical device sample inventories that are supplied by medical device sample providers for a medical device sample that is available and satisfies the requirements for use in the medical procedure. The computing device automatically causes the medical device sample to be distributed to the medical professional for evaluation and use in the medical procedure. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236609 | PHARMACY TRACKING SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATICALLY-ENTERED CUSTOMER TRANSACTION INFORMATION - A method of conducting a transaction involving transfer of a filled prescription order from a pharmacy to a customer. The method includes detecting that the filled prescription order is available for transfer from the pharmacy to the customer. Upon detecting that the filled prescription order is available for transfer from the pharmacy to the customer, the method automatically completes at least one process for facilitating the transfer of the filled prescription order to the customer. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236610 | METHOD FOR REDUCING ILLNESS IN CARE FACILITIES - There is provided a method for promoting hygiene and reducing illness in a resident care location. The method collects data from a resident care location by testing common areas and personal areas within the resident care location, uses data specific to each resident, uses this data to develop tasks for the caregiver(s), measures and scores compliance with the tasks, and provides feedback for improved compliance with the tasks. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236611 | PROXIMITY TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHOD - Systems and methods to track proximity of articles, locations and people are disclosed herein. Radio frequency tags are configured to communicate proximity of articles, locations and people over time. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236612 | MULTI-ACCESS HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PORTAL - Embodiments are directed to targeting specific items to health care users based on determined health concerns. In one scenario, a computer system determines that a user is subscribed to a health care service, where the health care service is configured to facilitate secure communication between the user and other health care entities. The computer system accesses health care information associated with the user. The health care information is stored as part of the health care service. The computer system determines, from the accessed health care information, various health care concerns associated with the user and, based on this determination, provides the user targeted items according to the determined health care concern. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236613 | USE OF WEB-BASED SYMPTOM CHECKER DATA TO PREDICT INCIDENCE OF A DISEASE OR DISORDER - Symptoms and methods for predicting the incidence of a disease or disorder are disclosed. A system for predicting the incidence of a disease or disorder includes a web-based symptom checker for producing a structured dataset, a data analysis component for producing a multivariate dataset from the structured dataset, and a feature construction component for producing a linear combination of orthogonal symbols representative of a disease or disorder. A method for predicting the incidence of a disease or disorder includes producing a multivariate dataset representing patient symptom counts, performing feature construction analysis on the multivariate dataset, creating a time series model using weekly illness incidence data, and applying the time series model to new illness incidence data to predict the incidence of a disease or disorder in the future. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236614 | Financial Triage - Front-end patient financial triage is provided, wherein various financial clearance checks may be processed prior to proceeding with a non-emergent patient encounter. A patient's credit history, historic payment information, and symptoms of his/her financial health, such as employment and income, family size, etc., as well as address and social security number verification may be utilized to help a health care provider determine if a patient may pay for health care services. A web-based configuration tool may be provided for allowing the health care provider to dynamically change rules that define cascading processes of a financial clearance transaction. A health care provider may be able to use this actionable financial information to make better up-front decisions about which financial category may be most appropriate for a patient. Embodiments may help to protect a health care provider's financial liability, reduce bad debt and preventable write-offs. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING EQUIPMENT - Present invention embodiments include a tool to track manufactured and other products from cradle to grave. This includes tracking the history of locations where equipment has been placed, loaned, evaluated, stored, and sold. The system includes Return Authorization (RA) and Complaints for equipment and parts. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236616 | Method for Managing a Therapeutic Substance Regimen - A method and system for managing a therapeutic substance regimen including: receiving therapeutic substance information from a user; receiving information regarding a regimen; providing interaction information based on the therapeutic substance information; receiving an ascertainment of adherence to the regimen at a set of time points; generating an adherence metric based upon the ascertainment and the set of time points; providing a reward to the user based on the adherence metric; and providing an automated notification to the user based upon at least one of the ascertainment, the adherence metric, and the reward. The method can further comprise providing an advertisement to the user based on one of the therapeutic substance information and the regimen, generating a comparison of the adherence metric for the user to the adherence metric for a second user, and generating an automated refill or renewal request based upon the therapeutic substance information and the regimen. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236617 | Method for Managing a Therapeutic Substance Regimen - A method and system for managing a therapeutic substance regimen including: receiving therapeutic substance information from a user; receiving information regarding a regimen; providing interaction information based on the therapeutic substance information; receiving an ascertainment of adherence to the regimen at a set of time points; generating an adherence metric based upon the ascertainment and the set of time points; providing a reward to the user based on the adherence metric; and providing an automated notification to the user based upon at least one of the ascertainment, the adherence metric, and the reward. The method can further comprise providing an advertisement to the user based on one of the therapeutic substance information and the regimen, generating a comparison of the adherence metric for the user to the adherence metric for a second user, and generating an automated refill or renewal request based upon the therapeutic substance information and the regimen. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236618 | ANALYZING ADMINISTRATIVE HEALTHCARE CLAIMS DATA AND OTHER DATA SOURCES - Techniques suitable for identifying potential subjects for a clinical trial and other applications are disclosed. One or more exclusion or inclusion criteria are defined for the clinical trial. One or more specialized searching tables are pre-generated using administrative healthcare claims data and the one or more exclusion or inclusion criteria. The specialized searching tables are searched. Through the searching step, subjects are identified within the administrative healthcare claims data who match the one or more exclusion or inclusion criteria. Through the searching step, a geographical area is identified corresponding to the subjects who match the one or more exclusion or inclusion criteria. A customized report is generated using the identified subjects and geographical area. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236619 | Automated reporting of payments made to patients for their participation in a clinical study in a blinded manner to the sponsor of the clinical study - An automated method and computer program product are provided for reporting payments made to patients for their participation in a clinical study in a blinded manner to the sponsor of the clinical study. The clinical study has a plurality of investigative sites which perform activities in accordance with the protocol of the clinical study. Each patient has patient ID information and is assigned a subject ID that de-identifies the patient. Payment requests are received at a software application from the investigative sites associated with patient activity. The software application includes for each patient that is participating in the clinical study, the patient ID information, and the de-identified subject ID. The payment requests are associated with the patient ID information. The payment requests are processed at the software application, and payments that conform to predefined compensation guidelines for the clinical study are approved. The software application generates blinded payment reports for electronic delivery to the sponsor. The payment reports show at least the de-identified subject ID for each approved payment, the payment amounts for each approved payment, and a date associated with the payment. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236620 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING PATIENT DATA - Data concerning patients that have received treatment by a drug is stored and accessed to it is provided. One or more storage elements are provided that contain data concerning patients that have received the drug. The data includes data from clinical trials and data from patients prescribed the drug by a physician. A processor is programmed to search the storage elements for data on patients meeting a specified profile and to create a dataset. The dataset includes information on the patients having the specified profile, including a response of the patients to treatment using the drug. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236621 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PREDICTIVE FUNCTION FOR DISCRIMINATING PATIENTS ACCORDING TO THEIR DISEASE ACTIVITY STATUS - The invention relates to a method for determining a predictive function for discriminating patients according to their disease activity status, comprising steps of: a—measuring values of biological markers for each patient of a first group of patients having a first known disease activity status, and for each patient of a second group of patients having a second known disease activity status, the measured values forming a dataset b—analyzing the dataset for identifying biological markers which are differentially expressed between the first group of patients and the second group of patients, c—among the biological markers identified at step b, determining correlated markers as markers which are correlated with other markers above a predetermined significance level, d—removing from the dataset, values measured for a biological marker identified as correlated marker, e—analyzing the dataset obtained at step d for determining a predictive function that predicts a disease activity status of a patient as a combination of values of biological markers, f—evaluating an accuracy index associated with the predictive function determined at step e, g—repeating steps d to f by selectively removing from the dataset, values measured for one or several biological marker(s) identified as correlated marker(s), so as to gradually decrease the number of biological markers in the combination of value until the accuracy index reaches an expected level. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236622 | RECOMMENDING CONSUMER PRODUCTS USING PRODUCT-INGREDIENT EFFICACY AND/OR USER-PROFILE - To help consumers around the world reduce the confusion and complexity of choosing among thousands of wellness products that are effective for their particular medical conditions and/or wellness goals, the present inventor, devised one or more exemplary systems, methods, software, and data structures for recommending products, such as health, fitness, and nutritional products, to consumers. One exemplary system receives user profile information, such as gender, age, medical condition(s), wellness goal(s), biometric data, allergies and sensitivities, and/or nutrition information, and recommends products based on the consumer profiles and product ingredient efficacy and/or contraindications for the medical conditions and/or wellness goals. The system recommends the most scientifically effective products for a particular consumer, while accounting for contraindications thereby reducing risk potentially harmful products. The system ultimately empowers consumers around the world to make safer and more knowledgeable decisions regarding their own wellness. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236623 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING CLINICAL TRIAL PARTICIPATION - A system and method for determining whether an individual is eligible to participate in a clinical trial by comparing partially identifying personal information of the subject to a database of partially identifying personal information of participants in other clinical trials and calculating the frequency of occurrence of the partially identifying personal information. | 2014-08-21 |
20140236624 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD - The present disclosure relates to a management system for personal health record, and more particularly, to a management system for personal health record, which restricts an access to a personal health record according to user authentication, allows online and offline management of a personal health record, and provides multicasting. | 2014-08-21 |