35th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090216504 | SELECTING SPECTRAL ELEMENTS AND COMPONENTS FOR OPTICAL ANALYSIS SYSTEMS - Methods of selecting spectral elements and system components for a multivariate optical analysis system include providing spectral calibration data for a sample of interest; identifying a plurality of combinations of system components; modeling performance of a pilot system with one of the combinations of system components; determining optimal characteristics of the pilot system; and selecting optimal system components from among the combinations of system components. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216505 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT WELL PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION - The disclosed methods, systems, and software are described for optimizing well placement in a reservoir field. A geological model of a reservoir field, a grid defining a plurality of cells, one or more wells to be located within the plurality of cells, and an objective function are all provided. The geological model is associated with the grid defining the plurality of cells. The locations of the wells are represented by continuous well location variables associated with a continuous spatial domain. A gradient of the objective function is calculated responsive to the continuous well location variables. The locations of the wells are then adjusted responsive to the calculated gradient of the objective function. Iterative calculation of the gradient and adjustment of the wells continue until the well locations are optimized. A visual representation of the reservoir field can be generated based on the optimized well placements. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216506 | METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT OPTIMIZES MEAN PROCESS PERFORMANCE AND PROCESS ROBUSTNESS - A method, system and computer readable medium are disclosed. The method, system and computer readable medium comprises providing a mathematically linked multi-step process for simultaneously determining operating conditions of a system or process that will result in optimum performance in both mean performance requirements and system robustness requirements. In a method and system in accordance with the present embodiment, the steps can be applied to any data array that contains the two coordinated data elements defined previously (independent variables and response variables), and for which a response prediction model can be derived that relates the two elements. The steps are applied to each row of the data array, and result in a predicted C | 2009-08-27 |
20090216507 | Engine control experimenting apparatus - The invention aims at providing an engine control experimenting apparatus which enables to easily carry out a confirmation test of an operation in all operation states with regard to the performance of various engine control parts constituting an engine system. In this engine control experimenting apparatus, various engine control parts, which are actually mounted on an engine and are required for engine control, are constructed in a state where electrical transmission and fuel supply are enabled in a manner similar to a case where the engine control parts are mounted on a real engine, and a model-based control is performed on the same conditions as those of the actual engine, on the basis of experimental data of the real engine written in an electronic control unit constituting each of the engine control parts. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216508 | Well Modeling Associated With Extraction of Hydrocarbons From Subsurface Formations - A method and apparatus for associated with various phases of a well completion. In one embodiment, a method is described that includes identifying first principle physical laws governing performance of a well completion and parameters associated with the first principle physical laws or the well. A coupled physics simulator is selected based on the first principle physical laws. Then, a coupled physics limit is generated based upon the coupled physics simulator that incorporates the first principle physical laws and the parameters. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216509 | USER INTERFACE FOR MODELING THERMAL COMFORT - Predicting thermal strain and providing a visual representation of the predicted thermal strain on a subject. A computerized model combines subject data, fabric data, and environmental conditions to simulate the thermal comfort of the subject wearing a plurality of fabric layers over time. The visual representation indicates the simulated thermal comfort on an image of the subject with the plurality of fabric layers. A user interface enables a user to modify or define the input data to compare the predicted thermal comfort of the subject wearing different garments under the same working conditions. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216510 | MOBILE NODE SIMULATOR AND PROGRAM FOR MOUNTING THE SAME - A mobile node simulator ( | 2009-08-27 |
20090216511 | Sensor Simulator - Sensor simulator for testing behavior of a process installation as a function of signals of a sensor, whose signals are simulated by the sensor simulator, wherein the process installation includes at least one measurement path having a sensor interface for connecting the sensor, to which the sensor simulator can be connected, wherein the simulator includes a measurement path interface, which can be connected to the sensor interface of the measurement path, and outputs signals to the measurement path and/or receives signals from the measurement path; and a control circuit for simulation of signals, which form the output signal of the measurement path interface, wherein the signals include curves of measurement signals as a function of time. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216512 | Method and apparatus for indirectly simulating a semiconductor integrated circuit - A method and an apparatus for indirectly simulating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) are described. A circle chain is formed using input pins and output pins to provide an intellectual property (IP) core model that substitutes for a real IP core circuit. A test bench for the IP core model is generated, the semiconductor IC that includes the IP core model is integrated using the generated test bench, and the semiconductor IC is simulated. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216513 | Design verification using directives having local variables - A computer-implemented method for verifying a design includes representing a verification directive, which pertains to the design and includes a local variable, by a finite state machine. The state machine includes multiple states, with transitions among the states, transition conditions associated with the transitions, and procedural blocks, which correspond to the transitions and define operations to be performed on the local variable when traversing the respective transitions. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216514 | RESOURCE REMAPPING 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). | 2009-08-27 |
20090216515 | Using a serial profiler to estimate the performance of a parallel circuit simulation - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that profiles a serial simulation of a circuit to estimate the performance of a parallel simulation of the circuit. During operation, the system profiles execution of module instances during a serial simulation of the circuit, wherein each module instance includes code which simulates signal propagation through a corresponding circuit module. Next, the system uses execution times for the module instances obtained from the serial simulation to estimate the performance of a parallel simulation of the circuit. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216516 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING TRACE DATA - There is provided a method, system and computer program product for generating trace data related to a data processing system event. The method includes: receiving an instruction relating to the system event from a location in the system; determining a minimum number of trace segment records required to record instruction information; and creating a trace segment table including the number of trace segment records, the number of trace segment records including at least one instruction record. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216517 | DEDICATED SIMULATOR FOR TESTING A USB HOST SOLUTION - An apparatus, system and method for testing USB host solutions, which provide for interactions with simulated USB devices according to the USB specification and also the behavior of actual USB devices as determined in a working environment. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216518 | EMULATED MULTI-TASKING MULTI-PROCESSOR CHANNELS IMPLEMENTING STANDARD NETWORK PROTOCOLS - A computer program product, apparatus and method for emulating channels in a multi-tasking multi-processor environment, including identifying a plurality of physical channels having an associated physical channel identifier for each of the plurality of physical channels, associating an emulated channel from a plurality of emulated channels for each of the plurality of physical channels, thereby generating a plurality of emulated channels, each of the plurality of emulated channels having a virtual channel identifier, mapping the plurality of emulated channels on a communications link, thereby generating an emulated channel path for each of the plurality of emulated channels, defining a queue pair link buffer from a plurality of queue pair link buffers for each of the emulated channels and increasing a number of queue pair link buffers. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216519 | Data Processing System And Method - Embodiments of the invention relate to a data processing system and method for supporting dynamically assigning devices within a virtualisation environment. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING A MEDIA PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH A COMPUTER - A system comprising a media processing apparatus and a computer where the media processing apparatus emulates a mass storage device and interfaces with the computer is disclosed. In one embodiment the media processing apparatus appears to the computer as a Universal serial bus (USB) mass storage device, and the operating system (OS) on the computer, using its pre-installed USB mass storage device driver, establishes bi-directional communication channel with the media processing apparatus. Thus, the need to develop an OS specific kernel-mode device driver for the media processing apparatus is eliminated. The system may employ a proprietary communication protocol on the USB bus to send and receive data between the computer and the media processing apparatus. In one embodiment, the computer sends and receives data by executing read and write operations to sectors of the emulated USB mass storage device; while the media processing apparatus deciphers the read and write operations on emulated sectors and takes appropriate actions. User-mode applications on the computer and the media processing apparatus may employ Remote Procedure Call (RPC) mechanisms to issue commands and share their respective resources with each other. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216521 | Emulation export sequence with distrubuted control - Emulation information including emulation control information and emulation data is exported from a data processor by arranging the emulation information into information blocks, and outputting a sequence of the information blocks from the data processor. Some of the information blocks of the sequence have relative proportions of emulation control information and emulation data that differ from the relative proportions of emulation control information and emulation data in other blocks of the sequence. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216522 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMING PARTS-OF-SPEECH IN CHINESE - A word sequence storage unit correspondingly stores Japanese word sequences and Japanese parts-of-speech of the words in the Japanese word sequences. A part-of-speech correspondence storage unit correspondingly stores Japanese parts-of-speech and Chinese parts-of-speech. A translating unit translates an input Chinese word sequence into a Japanese word sequence. A searching unit searches in the word sequence storage unit for Japanese parts-of-speech respectively corresponding to the words in the translated Japanese word sequence. The determining unit determines that the Chinese parts-of-speech stored in the part-of-speech correspondence storage unit in correspondence with the Japanese parts-of-speech found in the search are the parts-of-speech of the Chinese words translated into the Japanese words of which the parts-of-speech were found in the search. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216523 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF COMPOUND TEXT INPUT FOR PRIORITIZING COMPOUND LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS ACCORDING TO QUANTITY OF TEXT COMPONENTS - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound text input. The device is able to assemble language objects in the memory to generate compound language solutions. The device is able to prioritize compound language solutions according to various criteria. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216524 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A SENTIMENT FOR AN ENTITY - A method for estimating a sentiment conveyed by the content of information sources towards an entity is presented. The sentiment is obtained with respect to a query context that may be specified, e.g. by specific terms or expressions, like a product or service name. A sentiment dictionary having a plurality of sentiment terms is provided, wherein each sentiment term has assigned a sentiment value, and at least one of said sentiment terms is associated to a group context. Text documents are screened for occurrences of sentiment terms that are associated to a group context corresponding to the query context. Calculating a sentiment score value is performed as a function of the occurrences of sentiment terms having a similar or same group context as the query context. The method may be carried out automatically without manual analysis of the actual semantic content of the text documents under consideration. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING HOMONYMS IN A SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A system and method for homonym treatment in a speech recognition system and method are provided. The system and method for homonym treatment in a speech recognition system may be used in a mobile wireless communication devices that are voice operated after their initial activation. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216526 | SYSTEM ENHANCEMENT OF SPEECH SIGNALS - A system enhances speech by detecting a speaker's utterance through a first microphone positioned a first distance from a source of interference. A second microphone may detect the speaker's utterance at a different position. A monitoring device may estimate the power level of a first microphone signal. A synthesizer may synthesize part of the first microphone signal by processing the second microphone signal. The synthesis may occur when power level is below a predetermined level. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216527 | POST FILTER, DECODER, AND POST FILTERING METHOD - A post filter and a decoder enabling improvement of the sound quality of a decoded signal even when the sound quality of the decoded signal is different from the bands are disclosed. A frequency converting section determines a decoded spectrum. A power spectrum computing section computes the power spectrum from the decoded spectrum. A correction band determining section determines the band in which the power spectrum is corrected according to layer information. A power spectrum correcting section corrects the power spectrum in the corrected band in such a way that the variation along the frequency axis is suppressed. An inverse converting section subjects the corrected power spectrum to inverse conversion to determine an autocorrelation function. An LPC analyzing section determines an LPC coefficient of the determined autocorrelation function. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216528 | Method of adapting a neural network of an automatic speech recognition device - A method of adapting a neural network of an automatic speech recognition device, includes the steps of: providing a neural network including an input stage, an intermediate stage and an output stage, the output stage outputting phoneme probabilities; providing a linear stage in the neural network; and training the linear stage by means of an adaptation set; wherein the step of providing the linear stage includes the step of providing the linear stage after the intermediate stage. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216529 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHODS THAT ADAPT FILTERING OF A MICROPHONE SIGNAL RESPONSIVE TO RECOGNITION OF A TARGETED SPEAKER'S VOICE - Electronic devices and methods are disclosed that adaptively filter a microphone signal responsive to recognition of a targeted speaker's voice. An electronic device can include a microphone, a speaker characterization circuit, an adaptive sound filter circuit, and a speaker recognition circuit. The speaker characterization circuit operates in a training mode to learn characteristics of the targeted speaker's voice component in the microphone signal, and to store the learned characteristics. The adaptive sound filter circuit adaptively filters the microphone signal responsive to a control signal. The speaker recognition circuit uses the learned characteristics to recognize the presence of the targeted speaker's voice in the microphone signal and to regulate the control signal to cause the adaptive sound filter circuit to adapt the filtering to increase the targeted speaker's voice component of the microphone signal relative to other components. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216530 | Interference detector - A system improves speech detection or processing by identifying registration signals. The system encodes a limited frequency band by varying the amplitude of a pulse width modulated signal between predefined values. The signal is separated into frequency bins that identify amplitude and phase. The registration signal is measured by comparing a difference in average acoustic power in a plurality of adjacent bins over time. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216531 | PROVIDING TEXT INPUT USING SPEECH DATA AND NON-SPEECH DATA - Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing a speech input interface. The interface can receive speech input and non-speech input from a user through a user interface. The speech input can be converted to text data and the text data can be combined with the non-speech input for presentation to a user. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216532 | Automatic Extraction and Dissemination of Audio Impression - A method of creating a voice message is described. A dictated audio input is converted by automatic speech recognition to produce a structured text report that includes report fields with report field data extracted from the dictated audio input. A report message is created for transmission over an electronic communication system to a message recipient. The report message has message fields with message field data based on corresponding report field data. A message audio extract is automatically extracted from a portion of the dictated audio input and attached to the report message. And the report message with the message audio extract attachment is forwarded over the electronic communication system to the message recipient | 2009-08-27 |
20090216533 | STORED PHRASE REUTILIZATION WHEN TESTING SPEECH RECOGNITION - A set of audio phrases and corresponding phrase characteristics can be maintained, such as in a database. The phrase characteristics can include a translation of speech in the associated audio phrase. A finite state grammar that includes a set of textual phrases can be received. A software algorithm can execute to compare the set of textual phrases against the translations associated with the maintained audio phrases. A result of the software algorithm execution can be produced, where the result indicates phrase coverage for the finite state grammar based upon the audio phrases. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216534 | VOICE-ACTIVATED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COMMUNICATION AND DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM - A method of documenting information as well as a documentation and communication system for documenting information with a wearable computing device of the type that includes a processing unit and a touchscreen display is provided. The method includes displaying at least one screen on the touchscreen display. A field on the screen in which to enter data is selected and speech input from a user is received. The speech input is converted to machine readable input and the machine readable input is displayed in the field on the at least one screen. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216535 | Engine For Speech Recognition - A computerized method for speech recognition in a computer system. Reference word segments are stored in memory. The reference word segments when concatenated form spoken words in a language. Each of the reference word segments is a combination of at least two phonemes, including a vowel sound in the language. A temporal speech signal is input and digitized to produced a digitized temporal speech signal The digitized temporal speech signal is transformed piecewise into the frequency domain to produce a time and frequency dependent transform function. The energy spectral density of the temporal speech signal is proportional to the absolute value squared of the transform function. The energy spectral density is cut into input time segments of the energy spectral density. Each of the input time segments includes at least two phonemes including at least one vowel sound of the temporal speech signal. For each of the input time segments, (i) a fundamental frequency is extracted from the energy spectral density during the input time segment, (ii) a target segment is selected from the reference segments and thereby a target energy spectral density of the target segment is input. A correlation between the energy spectral density during the time segment and the target energy spectral density of the target segment is performed after calibrating the fundamental frequency to the target energy spectral density thereby improving the correlation. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216536 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises an image data input portion that inputs image data and a text data input portion that inputs text data. The text data inputted by the text data input portion is converted into voice data by a voice data converter, and this obtained voice data and the image data inputted by the image data input portion are connected to each other by a connector, and then a file including the voice data and the image data connected to each other is created. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216537 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A speech synthesis apparatus includes a text obtaining device that obtains text data for speech synthesis from the outside, a language processor that carries out morphological analysis/parsing to the text data, a prosodic processor that outputs, to a speech synthesizer, a synthesis unit string based on the prosodic and language related attributes of the text data such as accents and word classes, the speech synthesizer that generates synthesized speech from the synthesis unit string, and a speech waveform output device that reproduces a prescribed amount of output synthesized speech after it is accumulated or sequentially as it is output. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216538 | Method for Interacting With Users of Speech Recognition Systems - A computer implemented method facilitates a user interaction via a speech-based user interface. The method acquires spoken input from a user in a form of a phrase of one or more words. It further determines, using a plurality of different domains) whether the phrase is a query or a command. If the phrase is the query the method retrieves and presents relevant items from a plurality of databases. If the phrase is a command, the method performs an operation. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216539 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - An image capturing device includes a digital signal processor for processing an image captured by an imaging sensor, a display unit for displaying the image, a storage unit for storing the image and preset voice samples, and a voice processing unit for picking up sound waves and converting the sound waves into text information. Each voice sample represents a category. In a first operation mode, the digital signal processor assigns the image to the category if the text information approximately matches one of the voice samples, or establishes a new category and assigns the images to the new category if the text information does not match any of the voice samples. In a second operation mode, the digital signal processor causes the image in the category corresponding to the text information to be displayed by the display unit in a slideshow fashion or a thumbnail fashion. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216540 | Open Architecture For A Voice User Interface - A system and method for processing voice requests from a user for accessing information on a computerized network and delivering information from a script server and an audio server in the network in audio format. A voice user interface subsystem includes: a dialog engine that is operable to interpret requests from users from the user input, communicate the requests to the script server and the audio server, and receive information from the script server and the audio server; a media telephony services (MTS) server, wherein the MTS server is operable to receive user input via a telephony system, and to transfer the user input to the dialog engine; and a broker coupled between the dialog engine and the MTS server. The broker establishes a session between the MTS server and the dialog engine and controls telephony functions with the telephony system. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216541 | Method of Encoding and Decoding an Audio Signal - An apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which compatibility with a player of a general mono or stereo audio signal can be provided in coding an audio signal and by which spatial information for a multi-channel audio signal can be stored or transmitted without a presence of an auxiliary data area. The present invention includes extracting side information embedded in non-recognizable component of audio signal components and decoding the audio signal using the extracted side information. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216542 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal are provided. The present invention includes receiving an audio signal including a downmix signal and a spatial information signal, if a header is included in the spatial information signal, extracting configuration information from the header, extracting spatial information included in the spatial information signal, and converting the downmix signal to a multi-channel signal using the configuration information and the spatial information. Accordingly, the header can be selectively included in the spatial information signal, thereby if the header is plurally included in the spatial information signal, it is able to decode spatial information in case of reproducing the audio signal from a random point. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216543 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an audio signal are provided. The present invention includes receiving an audio signal including an audio descriptor, recognizing that the audio signal includes a downmix signal and a spatial information signal using the audio descriptor, and converting the downmix signal to a multi-channel signal using the spatial information signal, wherein the spatial information signal includes a header each a preset temporal or spatial interval, and the spatial information signal includes a header each a preset temporal or spatial interval thereby the header can be selectively included in the spatial information signal and if the header is plurally included in the spatial information signal, it is able to decode spatial information in case of reproducing the audio signal from a random point. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216544 | AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODING OR DECODING - Encoding an audio signal is provided wherein the audio signal includes a first audio channel and a second audio channel, the encoding comprising subband filtering each of the first audio channel and the second audio channel in a complex modulated filterbank to provide a first plurality of subband signals for the first audio channel and a second plurality of subband signals for the second audio channel, downsampling each of the subband signals to provide a first plurality of downsampled subband signals and a second plurality of downsampled subband signals, further subband filtering at least one of the downsampled subband signals in a further filterbank in order to provide a plurality of sub-subband signals, deriving spatial parameters from the sub-subband signals and from those downsampled subband signals that are not further subband filtered, and deriving a single channel audio signal comprising derived subband signals derived from the first plurality of downsampled subband signals and the second plurality of downsampled subband signals. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216545 | CONTRACT AUTHORING TEMPLATE CREATION - A system allows a contract administrator to define the attributes of a contract template, and then generate a user interface. The contract administrator can modify the contract template user interface attributes, and the system then creates and stores a modified contract template. The modified contract template is subsequently rendered into a modified deal sheet user interface that is used by an end user to author a contract. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216546 | Rating Virtual World Merchandise by Avatar Visits - A computer implemented method and apparatus to generate popularity ratings for virtual world artifacts based on how often and in what manner avatars access the artifacts. The popularity ratings for virtual world artifacts may be used to determine what virtual world artifacts are selected to have a prominent presence in a virtual world. When an event caused by an avatar accessing a virtual world artifact in a virtual world is detected, the illustrative embodiments receive information about the event, such as the event type, the avatar identifier (ID), and the time the event occurred. The illustrative embodiments generate a rating score for the virtual world artifact based on the information received about the event. The illustrative embodiments update a rendering of the virtual world artifact in the virtual world based on the rating score. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216547 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME RECOMMENDATIONS - A method, system and computer program product for providing real-time recommendations. The method includes accessing an itinerary corresponding to a guest of a venue, the venue having a plurality of attractions. The itinerary was created in response to one or both of preferences of the guest and historical data about the venue. Real-time data about the guest and/or real-time data about the venue are received. A real-time recommendation is created in response to the itinerary, to a current location of the guest, and to one or more of the real-time data about the guest and the real-time data about the venue. The real-time recommendation includes one or more suggested future activities for the guest. The one or more suggested future activities are communicated to the guest via a user device. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216548 | License Management in a Networked Software Application Solution - A networked software solution comprising a plurality of servers, and application programs at various of the servers forming components of the solution. License information for all networked applications that form part of the solution is stored at each server that forms part of the solution. At relevant times, a server might determine from it's stored license information whether or not the applications of the solution are all operating according to unexpired licenses. In this way all servers of a solution receive and store the license information pertaining to other required applications of the solution and can determine at any time if the solution is validly licensed. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216549 | Gift Registry and Comparison Shopper - Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to the creation of a gift registry or comparison shopper. A user can select any product from any store using her mobile communications device and add it to her registry. This registry can be viewed online so that the user as well as guests can view it and select products to purchase. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216550 | BUSINESS METHOD FOR PRESERVING THE VALUE OF BUSINESS ASSETS - A business method for preserving the value of business assets, and more particularly, the value of assets that are subject to associated license agreements. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216551 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKS OF A USER - A method and system for managing a social network are provided. The method includes establishing a user profile, wherein the user profile includes basic information fields and supplemental information fields. The method includes receiving a user-defined criteria defining how a display profile will be compiled based, in part, on a relationship to a prospective viewer. The method includes, responsive to a request from the prospective viewer, compiling fields from the basic information fields and the supplemental information fields into the display profile. The method includes providing the display profile to the prospective viewer. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216552 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR MAINTAINING ROOFS - The process for maintaining a roof includes receiving a maintenance request and establishing an account in the database associated with the maintenance request. Next, a contractor is notified of the maintenance request. The contractor receives maintenance request information over a communication network by accessing a software application. Performance of the maintenance request is regulated by the software application and a service procedure established in the database. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216553 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF OBTAINING REIMBURSEMENTS FOR PATIENT TREATMENT - A method of selecting a dressing for treating a patient's wound includes providing a database of dressings and dressing information corresponding to each dressing, the dressing information including an indication of whether the dressing is reimbursable. The method also includes observing a patient's wound, recording characteristics of the patient's wound, comparing the characteristics of the patient's wound to the database, displaying to a user a list of one or more dressings usable for treating the wound, and an indication of whether the dressing is reimbursable. The method further includes selecting a dressing for treating the wound from the list. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216554 | System and Method for Outcome-Based Management of Medical Science Liasons - A system and method for managing customer interaction activities of medical liaison personnel of a sponsor organization with health professional customers to achieve one or more desired business outcomes is disclosed. The system uses a customer relation database to record data regarding customer interaction activity of the medical liaison personnel and data regarding the business outcomes achieved or not achieved during the predetermined time period. The system correlates the customer interaction activity data and the business outcome data so that it can be used to conduct capacity and tactical assessments for future medical liaison activities. A method for targeting medical thought leaders or other health professionals who are most likely to achieve the business outcomes is also disclosed. In one embodiment, the system also provides a method for surveying the health professional customers to determine their level of satisfaction with medical liaison personnel and sponsor organization. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216555 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING AUTOMATIC SURVEILLANCE AND TRACKING OF ADVERSE EVENTS - A system, method and computer program product are provided for automatically detecting and tracking adverse events. The system may include one or more data sources configured to provide a combination of clinical, operational and financial data associated with each of a plurality of patients. The system may further include a network entity configured to receive at least part of the combination of data and to apply one or more trigger rules to the combinations of data to identify one or more suspected adverse events. The network entity may further be configured to receive an indication of one or more confirmed adverse events from among the suspected adverse events, and to automatically compile at least part of the combination of data associated with respective patients in association with which the confirmed adverse events occurred. The system may further include a user device configured to enable performance of a root cause analysis of the compiled data. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216556 | Patient Monitoring - Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for monitoring patients in a unit of a hospital, an entire hospital, or several hospitals. In some of these embodiments, the methods receives data pertaining to multiple patients. The method aggregates the data and calculated scores based on the received data. The method also calculates trends associated with the aggregated data and/or the generated scores. The method further displays the aggregated and calculated data in a unified display that facilitates efficient allocation of resources in the hospital unit, the hospital, or the group of hospitals. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216557 | Software System for Providing Access Via Pop-Up Windows to Medical Test Results and Information Relating Thereto - A software system is disclosed having pop-up windows that efficiently deliver informational and/or actionable messages that provide access to medical test results and related information. The otherwise invisible software receives and displays the messages on a computer where a medical professional can immediately access test results and related information. A pop-up window can include controls that delete messages and/or close the window, and can also include codes used to access medical test results, and/or hyperlinks that automatically open separate windows to display medical test results, context information, and/or other related information. Message elements can be arranged in columns and can be sorted by selecting column headers. In preferred embodiments, the medical professional provides identifying information so that only messages directed to the medical professional are displayed, and in some embodiments displayed messages and responding actions are logged. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216558 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING REAL-TIME HEALTH CARE ALERTS - An automated system is described for presenting a patient with an online interactive personal health record (PHR) capable of delivering individualized alerts based on comparison of evidence-based standards of care to information related to the patient's actual medical care. A health care organization collects and processes medical care information, including clinical data relating to a patient in order to generate and deliver customized clinical alerts and personalized wellness alerts directly to the patient via the PHR. The PHR also solicits the patient's input for tracking of alert follow-up actions and allows the health care organization to track alert outcomes. Further embodiments include implementing a plurality of modules for providing real-time processing and delivery of clinical alerts and personalized wellness alerts to the patient via the PHR and to a health care provider via one or more health care provider applications, including disease management applications. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216559 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ANONYMOUS ACCESS TO HEALTH INFORMATION - A system for providing anonymous access to health information may include an interface, a memory and a web portal. The interface may be operative to receive a test result of a biological sample of an individual and a unique identifier associated with the test result. The individual may not be identifiable by the unique identifier. The memory may be operative to store a record in a database. The record may include the test result and the unique identifier associated with the test result. The web portal may be coupled with the database and may be operative to receive the unique identifier from a user. The web portal may retrieve the record comprising of the unique identifier, and display the test result stored in the record to the user. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING MEDICATION PRESCRIPTIONS USING BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION - This invention is a system and method for a matching system that cross-references patients anonymously with doctors and pharmacies. The invention uses patient-unique biometrics, such as fingerprinting, retinal scanning, or another such unique identifier, for patient identification and verification without revealing a patient's name or other personal information. The system tracks patient prescriptions and produces alerts to indicate potential problems, such as drug interactions or possible fraudulent behavior. The system can produce a traceable paper trail, for investigation or prosecution, and protects the medical industry, patients, and the public from the consequences of doctor shopping. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216561 | METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF ANTICOAGULATION THERAPY - Presented herein are methods for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. Also presented herein are apparatuses for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. Further presented herein are electronic medical records systems comprising a program for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. Further presented herein are clinical decision support programs for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. Further presented herein are virtual anticoagulation clinics for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. Further presented herein are point of care anticoagulation devices for determining dosages of anticoagulants for a patient. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216562 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCOMMODATING DIVERSE HEALTHCARE RECORD CENTERS - A healthcare portal aggregator collects data from healthcare portals of different institutions to provide patients with a comprehensive view of their healthcare information. The aggregator visually organizes data by datatypes for easy reference while visually linking the data to healthcare institution identifiers to preserve the healthcare institution's connections to their patients. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216563 | ELECTRONIC PROFILE DEVELOPMENT, STORAGE, USE AND SYSTEMS FOR TAKING ACTION BASED THEREON - Examples of the present invention include profiling systems that store, manage and respond to electronic profiles. The profiling systems utilize attributes of the electronic profiles to take predictive or deterministic action, including identifying content to be provided and notification of selected content. Embodiments of the invention allow the profiling system to be used as a trusted intermediary where the profile owning entity controls access to their electronic profiles across their network of devices and services. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216564 | RULES-BASED SYSTEM FOR MATERNAL-FETAL CARE - A rules-base patient care method for managing the care of a plurality of pregnant patients from a remote command center for use in healthcare locations using patient-specific rules for each of the plurality of pregnant patients. A patient rules generator creates rules for the patients. Performance measures indicative of the ability of a rule to predict changes in the condition of the patient are acquired by the rules generator. A determination is made from the rules performance measures whether to revise the rule. A rules engine applies a rule to selected data elements stored in the database to produce an output indicative of a change in the medical condition of a pregnant patient and/or a fetal patient. The output from the rules engine is used to determine when intervention is warranted. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216565 | Method for protecting equity in purchased goods | 2009-08-27 |
20090216566 | Systems and Methods for Management of Compensation and Benefit Plans - The present inventions provide systems and methods that allow employees to electively participate in an alternate compensation and benefits arrangement, such as a specialized statutory trust structure, which provides the same or substantially similar benefits as their employer's deferred compensation plan without the employer being exposed to the additional cost and reporting burdens imposed by the new or existing reporting and administrative rules. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216567 | INSURANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - An insurance benefit plan is disclosed including one or more insurance modules whereby at least one of the insurance modules is a limited medical benefit program. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216568 | GUARANTEED REVENUE AT ELECTRONIC TICKET ISSUANCE AND MODIFICATION - The invention relates to a method for automatically checking revenue in connection with transportation ticket purchases such as airline tickets. A request for issuance or follow-up processing of the ticket is received at an E-ticket server, said request comprising the fare data of the journey. A real time check is then performed so that a fare check status of at least some of the data of the fare data of the ticket is returned. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216569 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - A network system for serving digital content to a graphical user interface of a user device is provided. The system includes a database storing user data including user preferences and events in a calendar of a system user; a processor configured to automatically scan the database to determine an event scheduled for a predetermined window of time; to automatically determine the event is associated with travel by the user and access one or more travel services, and to prepare content conveying a travel package customized to the event of the user; and a server to serve the content for presentation by the graphical user interface. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216570 | TRAVEL RESERVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method to identify Small and Disadvantaged Business (SDB) travel suppliers and account for the SDB expenditures. SDB suppliers submit their information to the system for inclusion in an SDB database. Initially, the suppliers self-certify their status. Status may be subsequently verified by the system operator or a third party. Certified SDB data is supplied to the Global Distribution System (GDS) and/or travel companies and agents. SDB status is used as a search attribute by travelers and travel managers. Reports may be provided to travelers and travel managers regarding spending with SDB businesses. Reports also may be provided to SDB businesses. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216571 | SPORTS AND CONCERT EVENT TICKET PRICING AND VISUALIZATION SYSTEM - A system and method is presented for determining at what price and when to release so-called ‘flex’ price tickets during an on-sale using hazard functional analyses of sales velocity and sales/inquiry ratios. Exponential, power, and Weibull-gamma models are also used to predict demand, depending on what part of the on-sale is involved. Determining demand of seats from secondary markets is also described with methods to use the demand for either repricing the seats in the primary market or presenting ‘best value’ seats to a prospective purchaser. Demand can be interpolated or extrapolated to individual seats or rows. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216572 | Conversation Mode Booking Method - A method to book events such as trips are discloses. The method provides a conversation mode that allows a booking to be created within retentive storage in a portable format. In one embodiment, this portable format is a string written in eXtensible Markup Language (XML). This format may be stored to a database using a single database access operation. According to another aspect of the method, a user may ignore selectable portions of the booking as the booking is being created such that an entire booking need not be discarded when it is determined that a single service or informational element included in that booking is no longer needed. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216573 | Method and device for automatic event detection and report generation - A robot controller including a control unit and a portable operating device (TPU) for teaching and manually operating the robot. The TPU includes safety equipment, a safety TPU-part having a first communication unit and a main TPU-part having a third communication unit. The control unit includes a safety control part having a second communication unit and a main control part having a forth communication unit. The first and second communication units are arranged such that they form a first communication channel for transferring communication data including information regarding the status of safety equipment from the TPU to the control unit. The third and fourth communication units are arranged such that they form a second communication channel for transferring general communication data between the TPU and the control unit. Each of the main TPU-part, the safety TPU-part, the main control part, and the safety control part includes a central processing unit adapted for generating and/or handling the communication data. Each of the communication units is connected to a network. Each of the communication units forms a node in the network. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216574 | Method and system for monitoring plant operating capacity - A monitoring system is disclosed for acquiring output activity, utilization capacity and/or effluent data from an facility on a facility-by-facility and/or an industry-by-industry basis. The system is designed to generate a plant and/or industry output activity database that is updated on a continuous, near continuous, periodic and/or intermittent basis so that subscribers are apprised of changes in plant or overall industry output. A clearing house is also disclosed for distributing the acquired data to subscribers to aid in analyzing, predicting trends, pricing, maintaining, adjusting, minimizing, and/or maximizing individual plant or overall industry output. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216575 | Systems and Methods for Providing a Vending Network - Embodiments of the invention can implement systems and methods for providing a vending network. In one embodiment, a system for providing a vending network can be provided. The system can include at least one transaction-type device associated with a vending machine, wherein the at least one transaction-type device is operable to facilitate cash transactions and/or cashless transactions associated with one or more products or services offered by the vending machine. The system can also include at least one server operable to communicate with the at least one transaction-type device, wherein the at least one server is operable to receive data associated with the transactions. Furthermore, the system can include at least one vend settlement server operable to communicate with the at least one server, wherein the at least one vend settlement server can settle some or all of the transactions | 2009-08-27 |
20090216576 | METHOD FOR CONSTRAINED BUSINESS PLAN OPTIMIZATION BASED ON ATTRIBUTES - A method for constrained business plan optimization based on attributes. The method, according to one embodiment, uses business data of a manufacturer to generate constrained business plans using one or more attribute-based constraints. The method is highly efficient in organizations having a complex organizational structure, multiple interactive production flows, many products, many customers and the need to rapidly add attribute-based constraints. It allows managers to make better strategic and tactical decisions regarding their business, thereby maximizing profit while satisfying constraints. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216577 | User-generated Review System - A system that combines user-generated reviews and user-generated video to create a review website covering an ever-changing list of topics. People located in different cities and colleges throughout the world create videos to both educate and entertain. This allows users to input their positive recommendations of different subjects into the system and offers users the ability to make decisions of what they buy, where they travel, where they go, what they do, and any possible decision that they could ask friends, co-workers, etc. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216578 | COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION SYSTEM - A collaborative innovation system is described. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a topic, responses, revisions, and ratings. The interface may communicate with a content provider and users. The processor may receive the topic from the content provider and provide the topic to the users. The processor may receive responses from some of the users based on the topic. The processor may provide the received responses to all of the users. The processor may receive revisions to the responses from some of the users. The processor may provide the received revisions to all of the users. The processor may receive ratings of the responses and the revisions from the users. The processor may provide the responses and revisions to the content provider, ordered based on the ratings. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216579 | TRACKING ONLINE ADVERTISING USING PAYMENT SERVICES - A user's online activity is tracked and offers associated with online advertisements presented to the user are identified. Information regarding these offers are provided to a payment service, which associates the information with an account for the user. When the user performs an activity using a payment card or other payment mechanism, the payment service may identify the activity as corresponding with an offer. Information regarding the completion of the activity for the offer may then be associated with information regarding the user's online activity. Additionally, a rebate and/or incentive may be provided to the user based on completion of the activity. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216580 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Partial Contribution Computation In ABC/M Models - Computer-implemented systems and methods for analyzing costs associated with a cost flow model having components of relationships and entities. A system and method can be configured to receive a data associated with the cost flow model as well as source-entity definitions, via-entity sets, and target-entity definitions. A set of linear equations is created that is representative of the costs and entity relationships, wherein data about certain relationships satisfying a removal criteria are not included in the matrices. The system of linear equations is solved to determine contribution values from the source entities to the target entities through the via-sets. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216581 | System and method for managing community assets - A system and method to manage a community development asset. The system includes an asset polling agent, a nomenclature taxonomy dictionary, and an asset discovery service. The asset polling agent identifies a descriptive term associated with an asset under development. The nomenclature taxonomy dictionary stores a list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term associated with the asset under development. The asset discovery service identifies a reusable asset of a plurality of reusable assets for use with the asset under development based on at least one term, from a combination of the descriptive term and the list of synonym terms related to the descriptive term, extracted from social network data. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216582 | SUB-LEDGER TO ACCOUNT FOR PERFORMANCE OBLIGATIONS - A system and method for implementing a performance obligation sub-ledger. A performance obligation is generally the recognition by an enterprise that the enterprise has an obligation to provide goods and/or services that corresponds with the enterprise's right to receive consideration. The obligation is released as the goods and/or services are provided or other criteria are met. A performance obligation sub-ledger, which interacts with virtually all aspects of an enterprise management system is disclosed to keep track of creation and release of performance obligations. The summary of the performance obligation sub-ledger is then reflected in the enterprise general ledger. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216583 | APPROXIMATING CYCLE TIMES WITHIN MATERIAL FLOW NETWORK - Approximating cycle times within a material flow network is disclosed. One embodiment includes assigning an approximate cycle time for completion of a part number PN within the material flow network by using a model that rounds the approximate cycle time to a nearest aggregate time period and adjusting the assigned approximate cycle time based on a mathematical function representing an aggregate accuracy of an aggregation of cycle times throughout the material flow network. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216584 | REPAIR DIAGNOSTICS BASED ON REPLACEMENT PARTS INVENTORY - A diagnostic system for diagnosing a vehicle, includes a first memory storing in a database, dynamic sales of components of the vehicle, a signal translator that communicates with the vehicle in at least one protocol, an input device that inputs information, a processor that controls a software according to the input information from the input device and communicates with the vehicle with the signal translator, a second memory stores the software controlled by the processor, the second memory stores information transferred from the first memory including the dynamic sales data, the processor ranking a failure mode of the vehicle according to the sales data of the components of the vehicle, executing a diagnostic routine on the vehicle based on the rank order of the component, and a display unit that receives and displays diagnostic information according to ranked failure mode. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216585 | SORTING OPTIMIZATION OF DOCUMENTS FOR MAILING - A method of optimizing mail sorting on a envelope sorting machine by eliminating the necessity to pass some of the documents through the machine twice is provided in which a postal code table is created having an order for each of a plurality of postal code ranges. An unsorted document print stream is received and a document parameter table created to store boundaries of each of a plurality of documents and a location of a postal code in each document. An index table is constructed incorporating information from the postal code table indicating the location and order of each document in the unsorted document print stream. The index table is reordered according to the order of each document and a sorted document print stream is generated, whereby the documents are arranged in order of their respective priorities. The documents are then printed from the sorted document print stream, separated into groups in accordance with their respective priorities and sorted in order of each group's respective order. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216586 | Method for Modernizing Technical Installations - The invention proposes ascertaining at least one technical influencing variable for the technical measured variable and then identifying design measures on the installation which are able to influence the at least one technical influencing variable such that the value of the at least one technical measured variable is altered so as to increase the value retention of the installation. In a subsequent step, further technical influencing variables for the value retention of the installation are identified which have their value altered by the design measures. Thereafter, the changes in the values of the technical influencing variables on account of the design measures and then the change in the value retention of the installation which is linked to the changes in the values of the influencing variables are ascertained. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216587 | MAPPING OF PHYSICAL AND LOGICAL COORDINATES OF USERS WITH THAT OF THE NETWORK ELEMENTS - Physical coordinates of a user and an asset are determined. A probability that the user and the asset are close to one another is determined based on the physical coordinates of the user and the asset. Permission for the user to access to the asset is decided based on the probability. Additionally or alternatively, logical coordinates of a user and an asset are determined. The logical coordinates of the user and the asset are compared, and permission for the user to access to the asset is decided based on the comparison. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216588 | RETURN ON INVESTMENT ANALYZER - In various embodiments, a user enters information regarding a business entity for classification of the business entity. Thereafter, a user views a series of questions and when those questions are pre-populated with answers a user can keep the pre-populated answer or replace the pre-populated answer with a different answer. The data submitted by the user can be transmitted towards a server (for subsequent updating of the populated answers in the server) and/or analyzed using the populated answers to determine a return on investment of equipment prior to purchasing equipment; and/or for an analysis of the business entity's current equipment. Embodiments of the invention also include other methods, computer-readable mediums, apparatuses, and systems that contain features similar to the features in the above described method. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216589 | System and method for developing technology assets - An automated method for developing new products within a development entity, comprises receiving respective catalogs of technology assets, each including at least one of a patent, trade secret, know-how, documentation, prototypes, pre-production units, production samples, tooling, and demonstration frameworks. Each catalog corresponds to a discrete pool of technology assets having subject matter in common. The development entity also receives, from the originating owner, title to each pool in exchange for an equity interest in the development entity and an option to re-acquire the pool upon payment of a reacquisition fee to at least one primary investor. Further development of each technology asset pool is funded by at least one primary investor, who receives an equity interest in the development entity in exchange for its capital investments. Costs expended by the development entity to develop new product concepts corresponding to each asset pool are separately tracked. If the re-acquisition option is exercised, these costs form the basis for calculating the fee to be paid. If not, monetization is achieved by selling and/or licensing elements the enhanced technology asset pool to a spin-off entity funded by at least one secondary investor. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216590 | Inferring System Goal Values in An Inverse Goal Lattice - A system for inferring relative system goal values in an inverse goal lattice including: a goal identification module, an inverse goal lattice configuration module, a goal value assignment module, an included goal value allocation module, and an including goal value assignment module. The goal identification module identifies goals for accomplishing system objective(s). The inverse goal lattice configuration module applies an ordering relation to goal(s) to configure the inverse goal lattice. The inverse goal lattice interconnects goals with several levels having “including goals” and “included goals.” The goal value assignment module assigns values to included goal(s) at a lowest level of the inverse goal lattice. The included goal value allocation module allocates goal value(s) from included goal(s) to including goal(s) using a goal value allocation function. The including goal value accrual module assigns an including goal value using: allocated goal value(s) and goal value accrual function(s). | 2009-08-27 |
20090216591 | METHOD FOR COMPUTER EVALUATION OF CUSTOMER INFORMATION AND AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED FINANCIAL PRODUCT OFFERS THERETO - This invention relates to the field of computer-assisted methods for customer data evaluation and communication of customized sales offers of financial products to customers based on data evaluation. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216592 | System And Method For Identifying Network Click - The present invention discloses a system for identifying a network click. The system includes: a parsing server, adapted to provide, after a page is impressed, impression information of the impressed page for an identifying server; a clicking server, adapted to provide, after the impressed page is clicked, click information for the identifying server according to the click; the identifying server, adapted to determine whether the impression information and the click information meet a corresponding relationship, determine the click as an effective click if the impression information and the click information meet the corresponding relationship, and determine the click as a vicious click if the impression information and the click information do not meet the corresponding relationship. The present invention also provides a method for identifying a network click. The solution of the present invention can dramatically increase the precision of identifying vicious clicks. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216593 | POINT SOURCE ASSET SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a point-source asset system for managing an incentive-based environmentally-conscious behavior program and methods of implementing the same. In one embodiment, a system comprises: an administrative entity, communicably accessible via a computer network, comprising a database; a consumer entity having an entity account stored on the database; an environmentally-conscious sub-program, comprising a point-source asset, associated with the consumer entity; a means for monitoring point-source asset activity within the environmentally-conscious sub-program; and a means for granting a credit value, correlating to the point-source asset activity, to the entity account. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216594 | Vineyard Information Collection and Management System - A vineyard information collection and management system is provided. The system allows a variety of information at one or more vineyards to be collected in real time, processed at a central server, and provided to users over the Internet using customizable, easy-to-use forms and pages accessible using a conventional web browser. The system includes planning, analysis, and management tools that assist in making purchasing, operations, and management decisions at one or more vineyards The invention includes a plurality of software modules that provide useful, real-time information about vineyards. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216595 | SYSTEM, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS TO MANAGE AN INDIVIDUAL MEETING WITH A TEAM - Systems, methods and computer program products for managing an individual meeting within a team. Exemplary embodiments include a method for managing individual meetings for all attendees of a team, the method including storing individual times slots for each attendee, determining a maximum number of time slots, for each available attendee saving a time slot count, for each time slot saving an eligible attendee count, allocating slots in which one attendee has a free time, setting remaining time slots as busy, decrementing an eligible attendee count and determining if the maximum number of time slots has been reached. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216596 | ESTIMATING ADVERTISEMENT PLACEMENT COSTS - The invention concerns estimating advertisement placement costs, for example, the placement of an advertisement in a newspaper The invention allows users ( | 2009-08-27 |
20090216597 | AUTOMATICALLY PRESCRIBING TOTAL BUDGET FOR MARKETING AND SALES RESOURCES AND ALLOCATION ACROSS SPENDING CATEGORIES - In one embodiment a software facility that uses a qualitative description of a subject offering to automatically prescribe both (1) a total budget for marketing and sales resources for a subject offering and (2) an allocation of that total budget over multiple spending categories—also referred to as “activities”—in a manner intended to optimize a business outcome such as profit for the subject offering based on experimentally-obtained econometric data (“the facility”) is provided. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216598 | Methods and Systems for Planning Configurable Manufacturing Capacity - The present invention comprises methods and systems that provide manufacturing capacity configuration, allocation, and procurement plans based on manufacturing demand, operational constraints, and other user inputs. This is generally accomplished by modeling the capabilities of the equipment comprising the capacity at its lowest allowed level of configurability. By defining capacity requirements at those same or lower levels, configuration, allocation, and procurement plans can be generated from an aggregated capacity demand forecast. In addition, the present invention allows for constraints (e.g. special equipment limitations, demand priorities, temporal requirements, financial targets, etc.) from various business areas to be considered when generating the plans. Furthermore, for each plan, the present invention also identifies any excess capacity—again described at the lowest allowed level of configurability—and generates expected manufacturing, financial, and other performance metrics. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216599 | Case Managed Counter-Terrorism System and Process - A machine-implemented Case-Managed ontology and decision support framework provides a basis for a family of machine database architectures for use in a system for countering forces of unknown intentions including fighting and winning the Global War on Terror. The system focuses resource allocation decisions on logically derived, targeted areas of interest with an emphasis on non-kinetic, non-destructive effects. The system combines proven doctrines and novel operational approaches. It employs readily available intelligence information, an ontological understanding of the problem domain, a three-level, metrics-driven, case-managed system and process to counter the forces of unknown origin, and an entire set of operational level activities combining strategic intent, tactical approaches, expected utility analysis, mission-level simulations, and integrated cost modeling. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216600 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARRANGING A TRANSPORT TRANSACTION - A requester may submit a request for transport comprising a set of transport preferences, which may include a desired starting point, ending point (e.g., destination), and pickup and/or delivery time. The transport preferences may also comprise a price and proximity thresholds indicating that non-conforming transport may be accepted within the supplied thresholds (e.g., not starting from exactly the desired starting point location, etc.). A group of registered users may be searched to find one or more transport providers (e.g., drivers) who may be available to provide the requested transport services. The set of drivers may be filtered based on one or more preferences of the requester. The requester preferences may relate to driver characteristics and/or driver vehicle characteristics. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216601 | SCHEDULING TOOL - In one embodiment the invention is a method of scheduling a meeting between a Requestor and one or more Invitees using a computer network. The method operates by defining a work time for the Requestor and each of the one or more Invitees and calculating an international meeting time within the work time of the Requestor and each of the one or more Invitees. The international meeting time is displayed to the Requester when the Requester initiates scheduling of a meeting. If the Requester schedules a meeting outside the international time an alarm is raised. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216602 | Schedule Analyzer - A project schedule is managed by developing a float profile area chart having a float profile with a float gradient for at least one non-completed activity within the project schedule to pictorially assess schedule viability. A schedule risk index (SRI) score is calculated to qualitatively assess a risk level associated with the project schedule. Schedule quality metrics are measured and the values for the metrics aggregated to provide an indication of the project schedule being manipulated by a scheduler. Historical trends for the schedule quality metrics are trended across at least two update intervals, and schedule performance is also measured, e.g., by trending early starts and early finishes for the project and a relative slippage occurring from the across schedule updates. | 2009-08-27 |
20090216603 | TARGETED PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A targeted product distribution system is described herein with respect to an exemplary management of product flow through a distribution center. Specifically, the system and method described herein is directed to the management and display of direct and easily-understood instructions, such that average individuals, as well as those with mental disabilities, will be able to contribute equally to the overall process. | 2009-08-27 |