46th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 49 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090281742 | Automated hierarchical classification for utility systems with multiple sources - A method for automatically determining how monitoring devices in an electrical system having a main source of energy and at least one alternative source of energy (e.g., another utility source, a generator, or UPS system) are connected together to form a hierarchy. The end-user inputs identification information about the monitoring device(s) monitoring the alternative source of energy. The method receives time-series data from the monitoring devices and determines a model type of the electrical system by analyzing the monitoring device's time-series data. Once the model type is known, the method builds the complete monitoring system hierarchy in which the monitoring devices that are monitoring the main and alternative sources are placed properly. The method can also validate polarity nomenclature of the time-series data to account for end-user's varying polarity configurations. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281743 | MANAGING ENERGY USAGE BY DEVICES ASSOCIATED WITH A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE RESOURCE CONSERVATION - A virtual universe can include regions that conserve natural resource usage. A virtual universe natural resource conservation system can determine a measure of comprehensive energy usage of a plurality of devices associated with a controlled energy use region in a virtual universe. The system can determine that the measure of comprehensive energy usage approaches a usage threshold for the controlled energy use region. The system can also impose one or more conservation limitations on at least one of the plurality of devices to maintain the comprehensive energy usage within the usage threshold. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281744 | TESTING DEVICES - A testing device for testing a device under test is disclosed. The testing device includes a microprocessor, a measuring module and a computing module. The microprocessor provides a testing signal to the device under test and determines a testing result for the device under test according to at least one signal measurement result. The device under test further generates at least one measuring signal after receiving the testing signal. The measuring module is coupled to the device under test, and measures the at least one measuring signal and generates at least one voltage measurement result and at least one period measurement result. The computing module obtains the at least one voltage measurement result and the at least one period measurement result according to a predetermined manner and generates the at least one signal measurement result. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281745 | Monitoring Plasma Induced Damage During Semiconductor Wafer Processes - A plasma damage detection test structure is disclosed. The plasma damage detection test structure includes a first antenna, a voltage source, a ground reference, a first transistor comprising a first source, a first gate, and a first drain. The plasma damage detection test structure further includes a second transistor comprising a second source, a second gate, and a second drain. The first gate is conductively coupled to said first antenna, said first drain and said second drain are conductively coupled to said voltage source, and said first source and said second source are conductively coupled to said ground reference. In various embodiments multiple antennas may be used. The antennas may be multiple configurations, such as a symmetric arrangement or asymmetric arrangement. In various embodiments, multiple transistors in parallel or cross-couple arrangements may be used. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281746 | METHOD OF PRIORITIZING ANOMALIES IN A BURIED LINEAR CONDUCTOR - A method of prioritizing anomalies in a linear conductor buried under a ground surface includes the steps of obtaining prioritization values for a plurality of anomalies along a linear conductor, and ranking the prioritization values according to magnitude. For each anomaly, a prioritization value is obtained by: locating an anomaly; for each anomaly, determining a current, a depth of cover, and a voltage gradient using spaced voltage probes; using the depth of cover and the voltage gradient, calculating an effective probe spacing of the first and second voltage probes relative to the anomaly on the conductor; and determining the prioritization value of the anomaly based on a linear relationship between the voltage gradient and the product of the current and the effective probe spacing. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281747 | SIGNAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, SIGNAL MEASUREMENT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIA AND TEST APPARATUS - Provided is a signal measurement apparatus, including sampling sections that each sample a signal under measurement having a cycle T with a threshold value, where the threshold values of at least two of the sampling sections are different from each other; a waveform reconfiguring section that shapes a reconfigured waveform having the cycle T by rearranging ordinal ranks of sample values corresponding to each threshold value obtained by the sampling sections, a distribution generating section that generates a timing distribution of edges in the reconfigured waveform corresponding to each threshold value; and a calculating section that calculates rise time or fall time of the signal under measurement based on the timing distribution corresponding to each threshold value. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281748 | Method and Aparatus for Trigger Scanning - A method and apparatus for determining a trigger in a test and measurement apparatus are provided. The method comprises the steps of indicating one or more anomalies to be found, loading a first trigger configuration to the test and measurement apparatus and determining for a first predetermined time whether an input signal generates a trigger related to one or more of the one or more anomalies. A second trigger configuration is loaded to the test and measurement apparatus upon the conclusion of the first predetermined time, and for a second predetermined time it is determined whether the input signal generates a trigger related to one or more of the one or more anomalies. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281749 | Display Digital Signal Visualizations With Increasing Accuracy - Digital signal visualizations may be displayed with increasing accuracy as the signal data is processed. According to one embodiment, an entire digital signal visualization is displayed as data processing begins. As the digital signal data upon which the visualization is processed, the visualization is refined with increasing accuracy. In one embodiment, a process reads portions of the digital signal data and uses the partial data set to build a visualization of the entire digital signal file. The process continues to read portions of the digital signal data, and uses the additional data to refine the visualization. This process continues until the entire digital signal file is processed and the visualization is displayed with complete accuracy, using all data points. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281750 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING NOISE ANALYSIS PERFORMANCE - Method and apparatus for improving performance of noise analysis using a threshold based combination of noise estimation and simulation. The method includes classifying a circuit into one of four defined groups, determining if an input noise is small enough to skip simulation, estimating an output noise wave, scaling down a generated wave by a scaling factor depending on the circuit type, and determining if the estimated output noise is small enough to propagate or instead requires simulation. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281751 | JITTER MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, JITTER MEASUREMENT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIA, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND TEST APPARATUS - Provided is a jitter measurement apparatus, including a sampling section that samples a signal under measurement having a cycle T, a waveform reconfiguring section that shapes a reconfigured waveform having the cycle T by rearranging ordinal ranks of sample values sampled by the sampling section, a distribution generating section that generates a timing distribution of edges in the reconfigured waveform, and a statistical value calculating section that calculates a statistical value of the timing distribution. The sampling section may sample the signal under measurement having the cycle T a certain number of times N while the signal under measurement repeats for M cycles, where M and N are coprime. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281752 | SKEW MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, SKEW MEASUREMENT METHOD, RECORDING MEDIA AND TEST APPARATUS - Provided is a skew measurement apparatus, including sampling sections that each sample one of a plurality of signals under measurement having a cycle T, a waveform reconfiguring section that shapes a reconfigured waveform having the cycle T by rearranging ordinal ranks of sample values of the signal under measurement sampled by each sampling section, a distribution generating section that generates a timing distribution of edges in the reconfigured waveform of the corresponding signal under measurement, and a skew calculating section that calculates skew between the signals under measurement being compared based on the timing distribution of each signal under measurement. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281753 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL PRODUCTION YIELD ENHANCEMENT - A system and a method for photovoltaic thin film quality control. The system illuminates an area of photovoltaic film, acquires the illuminated area and compares it with a predetermined i A system and a method for photovoltaic thin film quality control. The system illuminates an area of photovoltaic film, acquires the illuminated area and compares it with a predetermined image. The difference between the images indicates on presence of photovoltaic thin film defects. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281754 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING A SUBSTRATE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a test method an apparatus in which an area for test and an area for analysis are specified based on the design information of the display device having a non-rectangular display area. To carry out testing, parasitic capacitances are found using the design information, and operations for weighting are performed on test data or threshold values based on which a decision on pass/fail is to be made (FIG. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281755 | RECIPE PARAMETER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND RECIPE PARAMETER MANAGEMENT METHOD - In operation to obtain an optimal observation condition in a review system, the number of trial reviews can be reduced to improve efficiency of the operation. For a defect review conducted by the review system, a recipe parameter management system stores, as recipe parameter setting history in a recipe parameter setting history DB, recipe parameter setting values of recipe parameters set when the defect review is conducted, the number of trial reviews carried out until the recipe parameter setting values are set, and defect images obtained when the defect review is conducted. The apparatus displays, on a terminal, histograms and the numbers of trial reviews generated based on the recipe parameter setting history data stored in the recipe parameter setting history DB. Hence, the operator can easily obtain data regarding the recipe parameter setting in the past. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281756 | Accelerometer and Method for Error Compensation - An accelerometer has an acceleration transducer producing uncorrected analog acceleration signals representing vertical, lateral, and longitudinal components of acceleration. An error correction system is connected to the acceleration transducer for receiving the uncorrected analog acceleration signals. The error correction system includes a system controller for generating a plurality of correction coefficients, an analog to digital converter which converts the uncorrected analog acceleration signals to uncorrected digital acceleration signals, a filter for filtering the uncorrected digital acceleration signals, an error compensation circuit receiving the correction coefficients to compensate the uncorrected digital acceleration signals, and a digital to analog converter which converts the corrected digital acceleration signals to corrected analog acceleration signals. The error compensation circuit corrects for bias offset, cross-axis alignment errors, scaling errors, and thermal offset. The system controller arranges a plurality of calibration measurements into a matrix and inverts the matrix to calculate the correction coefficients. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281757 | Self-testing device component - A device has a microcontroller ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090281758 | Method and Apparatus for Triggering a Test and Measurement Instrument - A method and apparatus for determining a trigger in a test and measurement apparatus are provided. The method comprises the steps of loading a first trigger configuration to the test and measurement apparatus and determining for a first predetermined time whether an input signal generates a trigger. Thereafter, a second trigger configuration is loaded to the test and measurement apparatus upon the conclusion of the first predetermined time and for a second predetermined time it is determined whether the input signal generates a trigger. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281759 | Method and Apparatus for Multiple Trigger Path Triggering - A method and apparatus for determining a trigger in a test and measurement apparatus are provided. The method comprises the steps of loading a first trigger configuration to a first trigger element of the test and measurement apparatus and loading a second trigger configuration to a second trigger element of the test and measurement apparatus so that these trigger elements operate substantially simultaneously. It is then determined whether the input signal generates a trigger in accordance with the one or more trigger configurations. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281760 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TEMPERATURE OF A TEMPERATURE SENSING ELEMENT - An apparatus and method measure a temperature of a temperature sensing element having a temperature dependent resistance based on a ratio of discharge times of a capacitor through a reference resistance and through the combination of the reference resistance in parallel with the temperature sensing element is disclosed. A reference discharge time is determined by measuring the discharge time of the capacitor from a first voltage to a second voltage through a reference resistance. A temperature evaluation discharge time is determined by measuring the time to discharge the capacitor from the first voltage to the second voltage through the reference resistance in parallel with the temperature sensing element. The ratio of the temperature evaluation discharge time to the reference discharge time is used to determine the temperature and produce a digital representation of the temperature. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281761 | Detecting An Increase In Thermal Resistance Of A Heat Sink In A Computer System - Methods, apparatus, and products for detecting an increase in thermal resistance of a heat sink in a computer system, the heat sink dissipating heat for a component of the computer system, the computer system including a fan controlling airflow across the heat sink, the computer system also including a temperature monitoring device, including: measuring, by a monitoring module through use of the temperature monitoring device during operation of the computer system, thermal resistance of the heat sink; determining whether the measured thermal resistance of the heat sink is greater than a threshold thermal resistance, the threshold thermal resistance stored in a thermal profile in non-volatile memory, and if the measured thermal resistance of the heat sink is greater than the threshold thermal resistance, notifying a system administrator. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281762 | IC device-in-pocket detection with angular mounted lasers and a camera - A detection method and apparatus is provided. The detection apparatus includes at least two angular mounted lasers, a surface for receiving laser lines emitted by the angular mounted lasers, a camera for detecting a laser pattern formed by the laser lines on the surface, and a processor for analyzing the laser pattern. The lasers emit orthogonal laser lines on a surface of the device. The camera detects a laser pattern on the surface of the device and the processor analyzes the laser pattern to determine whether the position of the device is in pocket based on the analysis and position algorithms. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281763 | METHOD TO ORIENT A SPHERE OR BALL - A method for aligning a sphere to a desired orientation includes imaging a non-surface alignment feature of the sphere and calculating a current orientation of the sphere based on an image of the non-surface alignment feature. Using these calculations, a relationship between the current orientation of the sphere and the desired orientation of the sphere is calculated and communicated to a motion control device, and aligning the sphere into the desired orientation using the motion control device. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF PARAMETERS OF A FLAT MATERIAL - A system and method for measurement of parameters of a conductive material, include generating an oscillating electromagnetic field (EMF) interacting with a sample portion from a remotely positioned source; measuring values of components of impedance of the electromagnetic; populating a system of equations including a theory of electromagnetism-based mathematical model of the electromagnetic system; solving the system of equations to calculate values of a distance between the sample portion and the source, thickness of the sample portion in proximity to a point of projection of the source onto the sample portion and electromagnetic properties of the sample portion; outputting the calculated values as the measured values; and repeating the steps of generating, populating, solving, outputting and repeating using the calculated values for the step of populating in place of the measured component values. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281765 | METHOD OF LOCATING AN OBJECT IN 3D - Methods and devices for calculating the position of a movable device are disclosed. The device may include multiple optical detectors (ODs) and the movable device may include light sources. Optics may be above the ODs. A controller may calculate the position of the light source based on data from the ODs and properties of the optics. The device may be a game console, and the light source may be a game controller. The roles of the OD and light sources may be interchanged. The rotation of the movable device may be determined using multiple light sources and/or multiple ODs on the movable device. The movable device may calculate its position and transmit it to a console. The light sources may be modulated by time or frequency to distinguish between the light sources. There may be two or more movable devices. There may be two or more consoles. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281766 | CLEARANCE ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A ROTARY MACHINE - A method of estimating a clearance between at least one rotating object of a rotary machine and a second object is provided. The method includes measuring an operating parameter of the rotary machine. The method also includes obtaining signals corresponding to the at least one rotating object across multiple revolutions in time, wherein the number of the revolutions is determined based upon the measured operating parameter. The method further includes generating waveforms corresponding to the at least one rotating object from the obtained signals for the revolutions. The method also includes estimating the clearance between the second object and the at least one rotating object based upon the generated waveforms. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281767 | METHOD FOR GENERATING PROCESS DURATION DATA THAT ARE INDEPENDENT OF A REFERENCE CALENDAR DATE - Process duration data are generated that are independent of a reference calendar date, by conversion of a given duration data set, comprised within a process description data set, in a converted duration data set, the given data set being first converted into an intermediary data set that is compliant to a data format specified in the international standard ISO 8601 and includes the following consecutive fields: a first delimiter, a years value, a years value field identifier, a months value, a months value field identifier, a days value, a days value field identifier, a second delimiter, an hours value, an hours value field identifier, a minutes value, a minutes value field identifier, a seconds value, a seconds value field identifier. A target data set is first created with a first placeholder for a converted months value and a second placeholder for a converted seconds value, a first equation is solved by applying the years value and the month value as parameters to the equation; a second equation is solved by applying the days value, the hours value, the minutes value and the seconds value as parameters to the equation. The first and the second placeholders are replaced with the converted months value and the converted seconds value respectively and the target data set is stored as the converted duration data set in the process description data set. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281768 | Fracture prediction for crystalline microstructures - A method for predicting failures in crystalline microstructures is described. Fracture stress distribution data obtained from test samples prepared according to the same manufacturing process as a contemplated device is used to characterize the strength of surfaces in a numerical stress analysis of the device. The failure probability is then calculated for surface nodes on the device. The product of all such probabilities yields the overall probability of failure of the device. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281769 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING EXCEEDANCE OF A PROCESS BEYOND SAFE OPERATING LIMITS - An apparatus and method implementable with a software application for checking or assessing exceedances process variables beyond safe operating limits is disclosed. The process has instruments, a process history database, and one or more external databases. The instruments measure process variables and can be associated with the equipment. The process history database stores a plurality of values of the process variables measured by the instruments. Data of the equipment, the associated instrument, and the safe operating limit for the equipment is defined in a limit sequence of the software application. Preferably, the data of the equipment, the instrument, and the safe operating limit is imported from the one or more external databases. The process history database is searched for one or more exceedance values that are measured by the defined instrument and that exceed the defined safe operating limit. The “apparent” exceedance values are then imported from the process history database into the software application. Finally, the user uses to software application to evaluate and validate the exceedance values. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281770 | PLATFORM MATCHING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Pursuant to some embodiments, a platform matching system, method, apparatus and means are provided which include identifying at least a first benchmark test procedure to evaluate at least a first and a second target platform for use with an application, the at least first benchmark test procedure including at least a first unit test; receiving test result data from tests performed on the at least first and second target platform using the at least first benchmark test procedure; and performing a matching analysis to determine which of the at least first and second target platform is a best fit for the application. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281771 | TESTING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE PHONES AND TESTING METHOD THEREOF - A testing system for mobile phones includes at least one workstation ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090281772 | SYSTEMATIC BENCHMARKING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STANDARDIZED DATA CREATION, ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY NODE CHARACTERISTICS - One aspect provides a method of standardized data creation and analysis of semiconductor technology node characteristics. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) designing at least one representative benchmark circuit, (2) establishing standard sensitization and measurement rules for delay and power for the at least one representative benchmark circuit and across corners in the technology nodes, (3) performing a simulation by sweeping through a range of values and at predetermined intervals across the corners, (4) extracting data from the simulation and (5) parsing and interpreting the data to produce at least one report. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281773 | METHOD OF DESIGNING A TIRE HAVING A TARGET RESIDUAL ALIGNING TORQUE - A method of designing a tire, wherein a tire designer identifies a target residual aligning torque range for a tire design and creates a computer model of the tire, including a buttress angle. Further, the method includes calculating the residual aligning torque of the modeled tire and comparing the calculated residual aligning torque value to the target residual aligning torque to determine whether the calculated residual aligning torque value is within the target residual aligning torque range. The method produces a final tire design having a target residual aligning torque. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281774 | Systems and Methods Involving Surface Fitting - Systems and methods involving surface fitting are provided. In this regard, a representative method includes: receiving information corresponding to discrete data points of a portion of a surface; determining curvature estimates associated with the data points prior to performing curve fitting with respect to the data points; identifying curvature shock based on the curvature estimates, the curvature shock being defined as a curvature threshold corresponding to an absolute value of curvature between adjacent data points; breaking C2 continuity between adjacent data points exhibiting curvature shock; and performing surface fitting with respect to the data points to generate Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) data such that breaks in the C2 continuity associated with curvature shock are maintained in the NURBS data. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281775 | Method for optimal design of non-uniform weighted periodic sparse arrays for ultrasound imaging system - Disclosed herein is a method for the optimal design of an apodization function used for non-uniform weighted periodic sparse arrays for an ultrasound imaging system. The method includes the steps of (a) setting the interval P | 2009-11-12 |
20090281776 | Enriched Multi-Point Flux Approximation - Methods and systems to reduce or eliminate numerical oscillations in solutions that occur when using conventional MPFA when modeling flow in a reservoir are provided. The technique may be referred to as enriched multi-point flux approximation (EMPFA) and may be used to improve the consistency and accuracy in constructing pressure interpolations in cells for the purpose of determining flux equations used in predicting flow in a reservoir. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281777 | Workflow Modeling With Flexible Blocks - Disclosed is a method that includes providing tasks associated with a process, one or more of the tasks having a corresponding undetermined inter-dependency between the one or more of the tasks and other of the tasks, associating with the process one or more constraints specifying requirements regarding use of at least one of the tasks, the one or more constraints having corresponding graphical representations, and generating an instance of the process based on the one or more constraints to determine the corresponding undetermined inter-dependency between at least one of the one or more of the tasks and the other tasks. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281778 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING WEAK POINTS IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN - A method for identifying weak points in the geometry of an integrated circuit, and the critical process condition at which the weak point is likely to fail. The simulation means of the OPC process is used to generate the simulated wafer structure, not only in ideal process conditions, but also at other, non-ideal process conditions. The difference in aerial image intensity of the non-ideal simulations is indicative of the presence and extent of a weak point. The edge-placement error between the ideal simulation and the simulation in which a weak point has been identified is used to determine the location of the weak point in the design. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281779 | CONTROL UNIT SIMULATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A method, system, and computer readable article of manufacture for simulating a mechanism system controlled by a plurality of electronic control units operating at different clock rates. The simulation system includes a mechanism system simulator; a plurality of electronic control unit emulators for electronically emulating the respective plurality of electronic control units, each thereby receiving an input signal with a time and giving an output signal with a time; and a scheduler for receiving and storing the output signals with the times from the plurality of electronic control unit emulators, and for providing, in response to a change in the output signal coming from the electronic control unit emulator and having a relatively late time, the output signal with a time preceding the relatively late time to the mechanism system simulator. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281780 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING CONFIGURATION CONSTRAINTS FOR COMPUTER MODELS - A bill of material and a design layout are aligned to generate a configuration for a virtual vehicle. The bill of material includes a part number and usage associated with a part. The design layout includes a CAD model of the part. CAD models in vehicle position are generated from the design layout. Logical positions are identified based on the usage and the CAD models in vehicle position are associated with the logical positions. Feature conditions are applied to the CAD models in vehicle position representing content and position configuration. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281781 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ADAPTIVE NOISE AND TIMING MODELS FOR VLSI SIGNAL INTEGRITY ANALYSIS - A method, apparatus and program product are provided for performing a noise, timing, or other signal integrity simulation of a circuit under test. A simulation cache structure is accessed to retrieve cached simulation results for a first portion of the circuit under test. Simulation is performed on a second portion of the circuit under test to generate simulation results for the second portion. Simulation results are generated for the circuit under test by combining the simulation results for the second portion with the cached simulation results for the first portion. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281782 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF STORAGE CONTROLLER HAVING SIMULATED VOLUMES - Device, system, and method of storage controller having simulated volumes. For example, an apparatus for data storage management includes: a storage controller to manage access to one or more physical volumes, the storage controller including a simulation module to simulate access to one or more simulated volumes. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281783 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF STORAGE CONTROLLER SIMULATING DATA MIRRORING - Device, system, and method of storage controller simulating data mirroring. For example, an apparatus for simulating data mirroring includes: a storage controller to control a primary storage unit that has data stored therein, wherein the storage controller is able to simulate a process of mirroring data stored in the primary storage unit in response to a mirroring simulation command. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281784 | Method And Apparatus For Designing A Processor - A programmed computer and method are described for generating a processor design. The method carried out by the programmed computer comprises providing an initial model for the processor, specifying a plurality of resources in terms of resource parameters and their mutual relations. Furthermore, statistics are provided indicative of the required use of the resources by a selected application. Thereafter, a reduced resource design is generated by the programmed computer by relaxing at least one resource parameter and/or limiting an amount of resources specified in the initial specification on the basis of the statistics. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281785 | SUPERVISOR TRAINING TERMINAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE-DRIVEN APPLICATIONS - A system for supervising an operator in a speech-driven environment includes an operator terminal configured for running a bi-directional speech task with an operator in a first spoken language wherein the speech task includes a plurality of successive nodes that are encountered by the operator, indicating progress through the task. A supervisor terminal is configured for running a bi-directional speech task with a supervisor in a second spoken language that is different from the first spoken language. A communication link exists between the operator terminal and supervisor terminal for communicating information therebetween. The operator terminal communicates, to the supervisor terminal, information regarding progress through the operator terminal speech task. The supervisor terminal progresses through the supervisor terminal speech task synchronized with the progress of the operator terminal speech task. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281786 | Natural-language processing system and dictionary registration system - A natural-language processing system ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090281787 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD ENABLING TRANSLITERATION OF A TEXT INPUT - An improved mobile electronic device enables the inputting of text in one alphabet, Traditional Chinese in the present example, by transliteration of inputs in another alphabet, BoPoMoFo in the present example. Since some of the inputs can be ambiguous, transliteration of an ambiguous input is delayed until a detection of a finalization event, thus avoiding the outputting of unnecessary transliteration results, and thus advantageously avoiding a distraction to the user. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281788 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD ENABLING IDENTIFICATION OF PREVIOUSLY ENTERED DATA FOR TRANSLITERATION OF AN INPUT - An improved mobile electronic device and associated method enable the identification of previously-entered textual objects in one or more custom wordlists to identify possible transliterations of textual inputs. Such textual objects can be stored as data in a Pinyin custom wordlist if it is in the nature of Standard Mandarin characters or it can be stored in a BoPoMoFo custom wordlist if it is in the nature of Traditional Chinese characters, or it can be stored in both if it is in the nature of both Standard Mandarin characters and Traditional Chinese characters. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281789 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION IN THE FIELD - A method and apparatus are provided for updating the vocabulary of a speech translation system for translating a first language into a second language including written and spoken words. The method includes adding a new word in the first language to a first recognition lexicon of the first language and associating a description with the new word, wherein the description contains pronunciation and word class information. The new word and description are then updated in a first machine translation module associated with the first language. The first machine translation module contains a first tagging module, a first translation model and a first language module, and is configured to translate the new word to a corresponding translated word in the second language. Optionally, the invention may be used for bidirectional or multi-directional translation | 2009-11-12 |
20090281790 | DYNAMIC LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF WEB SITE CONTENT - A method, system and computer program product for providing translated web content is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from a user on a web site, the web site having a first web content in a first language, wherein the request calls for a second web content in a second language. The method further includes dividing the first web content into a plurality of translatable components and generating a unique identifier for each translatable component. The method further includes identifying a plurality of translated components of the second web content using the unique identifier of each of the plurality of translatable components of the first web content and putting the plurality of translated components of the second web content to preserve a format that corresponds to the first web content. The method further includes providing the second web content in response to the request that was received. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281791 | UNIFIED TAGGING OF TOKENS FOR TEXT NORMALIZATION - Raw input text is received, and divided into sequences of tokens. Each token is marked with a text normalization tag that identifies a text normalization operation to be performed on the token during text normalization. The tags are assigned to the tokens by determining a most likely tag sequence, given the sequence of tokens being processed. The text normalization operations are performed on the tokens in order to provide clean output text, which can be output for further natural language processing. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281792 | SELF-LEARNING DATA LENSES - A semantic conversion system ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090281793 | Time varying processing of repeated digital audio samples in accordance with a user defined effect - A programmed “Stutter Edit” creates, stores and triggers combinations of effects to be used on a repeated short sample (“slice”) of recorded audio. The combination of effects (“gesture”) act on the sample over a specified duration (“gesture length”), with the change in parameters for each effect over the gesture length being dictated by user-defined curves. Such a system affords wide manipulation of audio recorded on-the-fly, perfectly suited for live performance. These effects preferably include not only stuttering but also imposing an amplitude envelope on the slice being triggered, sample rate and bit rate manipulation, panning (interpolation between pre-defined spatial positions), high- and low-pass filters and compression. Destructive edits, such as reversing, pitch shifting, and fading may also alter the way the Stutter Edit is heard. More advanced techniques, include using filters, FX processors, and other plug-ins, can increase the detail and uniqueness of a particular Stutter Edit effect. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281794 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORDERING A GIFT WITH A PERSONALIZED CELEBRITY AUDIBLE MESSAGE - A method for providing a gift with a personalized celebrity message is disclosed. The method includes providing a database of prerecorded audio celebrity messages; offering a customer to select a celebrity message from the database of prerecorded audio celebrity messages; offering the customer to produce a personalized audio message; combining the personalized audio message with the celebrity message into an incorporated audio message; saving the incorporated audio message on a storage medium incorporated with a playback device; and coupling the playback device with the saved incorporated audio message with a gift. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281795 | SPEECH ENCODING APPARATUS, SPEECH DECODING APPARATUS, SPEECH ENCODING METHOD, AND SPEECH DECODING METHOD - There is provided an audio encoding device for correcting the component having insufficient encoding capability in the core layer by an extended layer. In this device, a core layer encoding unit ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090281796 | ENHANCED CONVERSION OF WIDEBAND SIGNALS TO NARROWBAND SIGNALS - Wideband speech signals must be converted to narrowband speech signals if the transmission medium or the destination terminal is constructed with narrowband constraints. A typical wideband-to-narrowband conversion method is the elimination of frequencies above 3400 Hz using a low pass filter and a down sampler. However, this method produces a muffled speech sound since the resulting narrowband signal has a flat frequency response. Methods and apparatus are presented herein to enhance the acoustic quality of a wideband-to-narrowband converted signal. A bandwidth switching filter is used to emphasize a mid-range frequency portion of the wideband signal so that the resulting narrowband signal has a non-flat frequency spectrum. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281797 | BIT ERROR CONCEALMENT FOR AUDIO CODING SYSTEMS - A bit error concealment (BEC) system and method is described herein that detects and conceals the presence of click-like artifacts in an audio signal caused by bit errors introduced during transmission of the audio signal within an audio communications system. A particular embodiment of the present invention utilizes a low-complexity design that introduces no added delay and that is particularly well-suited for applications such as Bluetooth® wireless audio devices which have low cost and low power dissipation requirements. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281798 | PREDICTIVE ENCODING OF A MULTI CHANNEL SIGNAL - A multi channel encoder ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090281799 | TANDEM-FREE VOCODER OPERATIONS BETWEEN NON-COMPATIBLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Tandem-free vocoder operations (TFO) between non-compatible communication systems may be enabled through hardware modifications at communication elements within each system. In one aspect, each infrastructure entity in System 1 comprises an intra-system TFO Frame Generator G | 2009-11-12 |
20090281800 | SPECTRAL SHAPING FOR SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENT - A speech intelligibility enhancement (SIE) system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a speech signal to be played back by an audio device when the audio device is located in an environment with loud acoustic background noise. In an embodiment, the audio device comprises a near-end telephony terminal and the speech signal comprises a speech signal received over a communication network from a far-end telephony terminal for playback at the near-end telephony terminal. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281801 | COMPRESSION FOR SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENT - A speech intelligibility enhancement (SIE) system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a speech signal to be played back by an audio device when the audio device is located in an environment with loud acoustic background noise. In an embodiment, the audio device comprises a near-end telephony terminal and the speech signal comprises a speech signal received over a communication network from a far-end telephony terminal for playback at the near-end telephony terminal. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281802 | SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A speech intelligibility enhancement (SIE) system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a speech signal to be played back by an audio device when the audio device is located in an environment with loud acoustic background noise. In an embodiment, the audio device comprises a near-end telephony terminal and the speech signal comprises a speech signal received over a communication network from a far-end telephony terminal for playback at the near-end telephony terminal. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281803 | DISPERSION FILTERING FOR SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENT - A speech intelligibility enhancement (SIE) system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a speech signal to be played back by an audio device when the audio device is located in an environment with loud acoustic background noise. In an embodiment, the audio device comprises a near-end telephony terminal and the speech signal comprises a speech signal received over a communication network from a far-end telephony terminal for playback at the near-end telephony terminal. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281804 | PROCESSING UNIT, SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A processing unit is provided which executes speech recognition on speech signals captured by a microphone for capturing sounds uttered in an environment. The processing unit has: an initial reflection component extraction portion that extracts initial reflection components by removing diffuse reverberation components from a reverberation pattern of an impulse response generated in the environment; and an acoustic model learning portion that learns an acoustic model for the speech recognition by reflecting the initial reflection components to speech data for learning. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281805 | INTEGRATED SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLER - A system and method is described that improves the intelligibility of a far-end telephone speech signal to a user of a telephony device in the presence of near-end background noise. As described herein, the system and method improves the intelligibility of the far-end telephone speech signal in a manner that does not require user input and that minimizes the distortion of the far-end telephone speech signal. The system is integrated with an acoustic echo canceller and shares information therewith. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281806 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPELLING RECOGNITION USING SPEECH AND NON-SPEECH INPUT - A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method includes generating an unweighted grammar, selecting a database of words, generating a weighted grammar using the unweighted grammar and a statistical letter model trained on the database of words, receiving speech from a user after receiving the non-speech input and after generating the weighted grammar, and performing automatic speech recognition on the speech and non-speech input using the weighted grammar. If a confidence is below a predetermined level, then the method includes receiving non-speech input from the user, disambiguating possible spellings by generating a letter lattice based on a user input modality, and constraining the letter lattice and generating a new letter string of possible word spellings until a letter string is correctly recognized. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281807 | VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION DEVICE AND VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION METHOD - A voice quality conversion device converts voice quality of an input speech using information of the speech. The device includes: a target vowel vocal tract information hold unit ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090281808 | VOICE DATA CREATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A voice data creation system includes a dictionary data memory section that stores dictionary data for generating synthesized voice data corresponding to text data; an edition processing section that displays an edition screen for editing a voice guidance message as a sentence including a plurality of phrases to receive edition input formation so as to perform an edition processing based on the edition input information; a list information generation processing section that generates list information relating to each sentence and phrases included in the each sentence based on a result of the edition processing; a phrase voice data generating section that determines a target phrase for voice data creation based on the list information to generate and maintain voice data corresponding to the target phrase determined for voice data creation based on the dictionary data; and a memory write information generating section that determines a target phrase to be stored in a voice data memory based on the list information to generate memory write information including voice data of the target phrase determined to be stored in the memory. In the system, the edition processing section divides a sentence input on the edition screen into a plurality of phrases based on text data of the sentence input; the list information generation processing section specifies the phrases included in the sentence and a reproduction order of the phrases based on a result of the sentence division to generate sentence information including phrase specification information of the phrases included in the sentence and sequence information relating to the reproduction order of the phrases; the phrase voice data generating section generates synthesized voice data corresponding to text data of the target phrase for voice data creation based on the dictionary data; and the memory write information generating section determines the target phrase to be stored in the memory such that voice data of a phrase used commonly in a plurality of sentences and a phrase used a plurality of number of times in a single sentence are not duplicately stored. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281809 | Headset Wearer Identity Authentication With Voice Print Or Speech Recognition - A headset includes a voice print match application or speech recognition application. The voice print match application receives a user speech corresponding to a submitted voice print phrase key upon determining a donned condition, where the user speech is compared to the predetermined voice print phrase key to validate an identity of the headset user. The speech recognition application receives a user speech corresponding to a password or PIN and recognizes the password or PIN. The recognized password or PIN is compared to a valid password or PIN to validate the identity of the headset user. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281810 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALLY PRESENTING AUDIO SIGNALS - A method of visually presenting audio signals includes receiving an audio signal to be presented; generating a predetermined number of discrete frequency components from the audio signal; assigning a graphical object to each of the frequency components, each of the graphical objects being specified by a geometrical shape, a position information and a size information; and all of the graphical objects associated with all of the frequency components are displayed simultaneously on a graphic display. The system includes a microphone for generating audio signals; an audio interface unit for sampling the audio signals and transforming them into digital signals; a processing unit for translating digital signals into a predetermined number of discrete frequency components and for assigning a graphical object to each of the discrete frequency components; a video interface unit for generating a video signal; and a graphic display for displaying a sonogram based on the video signal. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281811 | TRANSFORM CODER AND TRANSFORM CODING METHOD - A transform coder leading to reduction of degradation of perceptual sound quality even if an adequate number of bits is not assigned. Candidates of a correction scale factor stored in a correction scale factor codebook ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090281812 | Apparatus and Method for Encoding and Decoding Signal - Encoding and decoding apparatuses and encoding and decoding methods are provided. The decoding method includes extracting a plurality of encoded signals and division information of the encoded signals from an input bitstream, determining which of a plurality of decoding methods is to be used to decode each of the encoded signals, decoding the encoded signals using the determined decoding methods, and synthesizing the decoded signals with reference to the division information. Accordingly, it is possible to encode signals having different characteristics at an optimum bitrate by classifying the signals into one or more classes according to the characteristics of the signals and encoding each of the signals using an encoding unit that can best serve the class where a corresponding signal belongs. In addition, it is possible to efficiently encode various signals including audio and speech signals. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281813 | NOISE SYNTHESIS | 2009-11-12 |
20090281814 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method for processing an audio signal, comprising: receiving a downmix signal, an object information, and a mix information; generating a downmix processing information using the object information and the mix information; processing the downmix signal using the downmix processing information; and, generating a multi-channel information using the object information and the mix information, wherein the number of channel of the downmix signal is equal to the number of channel of the processed downmix signal is disclosed. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281815 | COMPENSATION TECHNIQUE FOR AUDIO DECODER STATE DIVERGENCE - A system and method is described for compensating for the effects of a corrupted Continuously Variable Delta Slope Modulation (CVSD) decoder memory state on a decoded audio signal. In accordance with the system and method, a first estimated step size associated with a first frame of the decoded audio signal is calculated and a second estimated step size associated with a replacement frame generated to conceal bit errors in the first frame of the decoded audio signal is calculated. At least a second frame of the decoded audio signal is then modified based on the first estimated step size and the second estimated step size. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281816 | ACCOUNT ABUSE DETECTION OR PREVENTION DEVICE, DATA COLLECTION DEVICE, AND ACCOUNT ABUSE DETECTION OR PREVENTION PROGRAM - An account abuse detection or prevention device, a data collection device, and an account abuse detection or prevention program, which are capable of promptly detecting or preventing abuse of an account. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281817 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING WAIT TIME FOR SERVICE TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods are provided to automatically predict wait times for customers to obtain service transactions at a service establishment, wherein wait times are estimated based on a combination of wait time values determined from current and historical service information that is collected, stored and processed over time. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281818 | QUALITY OF SERVICE AWARE SCHEDULING FOR COMPOSITE WEB SERVICE WORKFLOWS - A method of assigning web service requests to service providers includes searching for an optimal assignment from all possible assignments using a genetic algorithm (GA) that represents possible assignments as chromosomes, and converging towards an assignment of web service request to service providers that maximizes overall business value for all workflows to the service providers. An adaptive mutation scheme is used to introduce mutation into populations of chromosomes. The mutation scheme includes a mutation rate that increases when chromosomes under evaluation fail to improve its workload against the metric over a certain number of generations. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281819 | DATA DRIVEN COMPONENT REPUTATION - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for observing the real-world performance of components and using the collected data to improve other user experiences. Configuration data, usage data, and user experience data are collected for components on observed solution instances. The configuration data, usage data, and user experience data are analyzed to generate component diagnostic data that can be used to make recommendations to one or more advised solution instances as to how to correct a problem being experienced on the one or more advised solution instances. In one implementation, the component diagnostic data generated includes a reputation rating for each of the components. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281820 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO QUANTIFY PERFORMANCE OF A POWER GENERATING SYSTEM - A method for quantifying performance of a power generating system is provided. The method includes empirically determining an actual relationship between input of an uncontrollable resource and power output of the power generating system. The method also includes determining a desired relationship between input of an uncontrollable resource and power output of the power generating system. The method further includes comparing the actual relationship to the desired relationship. The method also includes determining a plurality of financial parameters for the power generating system based on the comparison. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281821 | Systems and methods for goal attainment in alumni giving - Systems and methods are provided for electronically correlating pre-graduation student interactions with one or more post-graduation alumni giving outcomes. The systems and methods comprise capturing pre-graduation student interaction data and capturing post-graduation student data. The systems and methods determine one or more post-graduation alumni giving outcomes from the captured post-graduation student data, and correlate the pre-graduation student interaction data elements with the one or more post-graduation alumni giving outcomes. The systems and methods determine which captured pre-graduation student interaction data elements and/or post-graduation student data elements have increased correlation with the one or more post-graduation outcomes. Factor analysis may be used to determine which pre-graduation and/or post-graduation captured data elements have an increased correlation with the post-graduation outcomes. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281822 | System and Method to Automate Service Delivery to Medical Equipment - A system and method to manage service delivery to a customer is provided. In one embodiment, a system may include a computing device that, in turn, includes a memory having a plurality of routines stored therein and a processor configured to execute the plurality of routines. The plurality of routines of one embodiment may include a response engine configured to receive an indication of an event with respect to a medical resource and to receive a plurality of region-specific parameter sets including a parameter set associated with a geographic region in which the medical resource is located. Additionally, the response engine may be configured to generate an output including a recommended action based at least in part on the event and the parameter set associated with the geographic region such that the recommended action is customized for the geographic region in which the medical resource is located. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPERSING MEDICATIONS USING A SINGLE POINT REPLENISHMENT - A computer system and methods manages the dispersal and replenishment of medications. Participating pharmacies are associated with a code that corresponds to medication units dispersed by the pharmacies. The amount of medication units corresponding to the code and dispersed by the pharmacies is tracked. When the amount of dispersed medication units reaches a replenishment threshold, replacement medication units are ordered. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPERSING MEDICATIONS USING A SINGLE POINT PURCHASE - A computer system and method manages the dispersal and replenishment of medications. Participating health care providers are associated with a code that corresponds to medication units dispersed by a pharmacy. The amount of medication units corresponding to the code and dispersed to patients of the health care providers is tracked. When the amount of dispersed medication units reaches a replenishment threshold, replacement medication units are ordered. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281825 | AUTOMATED PATIENT FLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A patient flow management system includes a means for identifying a patient as the patient approaches an examination area. When the patient is identified, a patient encounter screen, which provides both patient data and medical procedure data, is provided in the examination area, thereby decreasing the need for paper charts and increasing the efficiency of the facility. The system can also include a timer for determining an amount of time that a patient has been left in an examination room, and kiosks for checking into an appointment and providing identifying tokens to the patient. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281826 | Process, Knowledge, And Intelligence Management Through Integrated Medical Management System For Better Health Outcomes, Utilization Cost Reduction and Provider Reward Programs - Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for rewarding health care providers using an integrated medical management system. A web application analyzes performance of the health care providers. The web application acquires information from integrated medical management system. The acquired information includes information of health care quality improvement analysis, disease and case based management, utilization analytics, physician profiling, authorizations management, lab and imaging information, and health risk assessment information. The web application determines performance indices for the health care providers based on the acquired information. The performance indices include a quality index, an economic index, and a relative value unit index of the health care providers. The web application analyzes the performance of the health care providers based on the performance indices. The analysis includes identifying health care providers eligible for a reward. The health care providers are then rewarded based on the analyzed performance. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281827 | Integrated payment system and method of using same - An integrated payment system directed to the care of a subject and method of same is described herein. This system and method includes a care planner for accurately approximating the costs for the subject during the course of care, an insurance verifier and estimator that identifies the portion of the costs for the subject that is covered by the subjects insurance, wherein the approximated costs less the covered insurance leaves a subject payment, a discount planner that evaluates the application of at least one discount to the subject payment, and a payment planner that enables a payment arrangement for the subject for the subject payment less any applied discounts. Increased functionality of the payment system is achieved using automated integration of the care planner, the insurance verifier and estimator, the discount planner and the payment planner and providing the ability communicating in and among at least two of the care planner, the insurance verifier and estimator, the discount planner and the payment planner. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281828 | Sample Store forecasting Process and System - A method and system of predicting market information includes the steps of receiving first data, forecasting further data based on the first data, receiving second data and comparing the further data with the second data, and creating an adjustment factor to account for any difference between the further data and the second data. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281829 | Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Providing Compliant Messaging Services - Systems, methods and computer program products for providing compliant messaging services are disclosed. Methods according to some embodiments include receiving input data from a campaign sponsor, encrypting at least a portion of the input data, generating a message schedule that includes message content, recipient identification data and temporal data corresponding to a plurality of messages, and sending and/or receiving one of the plurality of messages to and/or from a corresponding recipient. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281830 | COLLABORATION MARKETPLACE PLATFORM SYSTEM FOR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS - An integrated collaborative platform which allows for data sharing, data analysis, knowledge creation and sharing, problem solving, trading, and accelerated scientific discovery by collaborating teams which may be formed on an ad-hoc basis among users of the system is disclosed. The platform is designed to accelerate research and improve clinical care of chronic conditions. It provides a central place to facilitate interactions between the many different groups that participate in these activities. The central features of the system can be tailored to best suit each chronic condition. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281831 | Automated Configuration of Medical Practice Management Systems - A user (e.g., medical office manager, medical office insurance administrator, doctor) utilizes a medical practice configuration interface (e.g., web page) to input information about the user's medical practice (e.g., address, insurance plans, doctors, hospitals that the doctors utilize). Based on this information and/or rules associated with the insurance plans accepted at the user's medical practice, additional information is requested from the user about the user's medical practice (e.g., information needed for an insurance plan, information needed for a hospital). The user inputs the requested additional information utilizing the medical practice configuration interface. Configuration information for the user's medical practice is generated based on the information and/or the additional information inputted by the user. A user interface (e.g., web pages interfacing with the medical practice management server) and/or rules for the medical practice can be generated based on the configuration information. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281832 | HOSTED INFUSIONAL THERAPEUTICS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Embodiments according to the present invention provide an online disease management system, method and computer program product that calculates and processes infusional therapy protocols. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281833 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE MULTI-PARTY MEDICAL CONFERENCING - A system and method for providing secure medical conferencing are provided. In one example, the system includes a database and a medical services authentication server (MSAS) coupled to the database and a packet network. The database includes medical information and the MSAS includes instructions for facilitating the medical conferencing, including enabling medical service consumers to identify and connect directly to medical service providers via the packet network using information from the database. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATION OF DORMANT PATIENTS - Disclosed herein is a system and method for managing information of dormant patients and, more particularly, to such a system and method in which the information of dormant patients is stored and managed in a separate storage server. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281835 | Medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance - A medical prescription scheduler for reminding and compliance is basically envisioned and devised to simplify the programming of a reminder device, and comprises of a single device or a pair of complimentary devices. A scheduler device is meant for achieving a speedy and facilitated scheduling of a medical prescription, formatting the scheduled prescription based on format specifications compliant with the prescription reminder application program of a recipient reminder device, and transmitting the formatted scheduled medical prescription to the reminder device. When unpacked in the receiving reminder device, said format is intended for realizing the programming of the reminder device. And the programmed reminder device is capable of audio-visually reminding each dose of each medication of said prescription till compliance. Preferably, the scheduler and reminder devices are modified commonly used electronic devices, wherein either the existing hardware and/or software is suitably adapted or the requisite hardware and/or software is incorporated so as to accomplish the scheduling and reminding function. While inputting a prescription, the computing means of a scheduler device assists a prescriber by performing relational analysis and by displaying cautionary or advisory information. In addition to facilitating a doctor in scheduling a medical prescription, a means for promoting pharmaceutical products and generating revenues is included. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281836 | PERSONAL MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM - A business method for providing improved portable health care records management that is HIPAA compliant and legally reliable from the physician's perspective. The method provides service for providing a USB portable medical records database to a hospital patient in a USB device with multiple layers of security. The USB device and first and second softwares for implementing updates of the USB portable medical records database are provided. A first software resident on the USB device auto-runs a resident database of patient medical records and provides security and HMI functions. Second software resides on a business computer linked to the hospital medical records database for acquiring, sorting, and storing medical records on the USB device. A discharge service includes creating a USB portable medical records database for a patient being discharged, and may optionally include reviews of the records for compliance with medical and insurance standards. Only physician-dictated records are stored. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281837 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF MEDICAL RECORDS - A method, a system, and a computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions for executing a computer implemented method for automatically evaluating the quality of a medical record. The method includes: generating temporary facts from a medical record to be evaluated; constructing a query to a knowledge base of standard facts of standard medical records from the temporary facts; executing the query to the knowledge base by using a reasoning engine; and determining the quality of a medical record to be evaluated based on the result of the query. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281838 | MEDICAL FAILURE PATTERN SEARCH ENGINE - A patient safety search engine and alarm processor is programmed to repetitively search the electronic medical records of all patients in a hospital system to automatically provide early detection of patients with evolving pathophysiologic cascades, and in particular the cascades of evolving death, such as cascades of septic shock. The search engine also searches for a wide range of evolving pathophysiologic failures which are commonly fatal if detected too late. An alarm processor is provided which is programmed to provide an alarm upon the detection of a cascade or failure. The processor is further be programmed to provide an image of the cascade, and to determine, the severity of the cascade, and the time of onset of the cascade in relation to the timing and type of procedures and treatment and the increased cost associated with the cascade. Discretionary real-time system-wide searches for a wide range of clinical failure patterns or images within the hospital system may be performed using the disclosed patient safety search engine. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281839 | PATIENT SAFETY PROCESSOR - A processor-based system for analyzing physiologic data and medical care is provided wherein the patient data is analyzed to construct images that are representative of a patient's condition. The processor provides a self-modulating analysis, which is responsive to the occurrence of additional data items to increase the information contained in the images. Identifications of modes of physiologic failure by the analysis of the generated images provides for earlier recognition and intervention and improved protocolization of testing and treatment. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281840 | TRANSFERRING INSURANCE POLICIES - A server may receive from a trading system information on an insurance policy, in which the information may include privacy related information. The server may compare the privacy related information to at least one predefined characteristic and determine that there is a match between the privacy related information and the characteristic. Based at least in part on there being a match, the server may filter-out the insurance policy such that the information on the insurance policy is not provided to a workstation in use by a participant. Alternatively, the server may determine that there is not a match between the privacy related information and the characteristic and provide the information, minus the privacy related information, to the workstation. | 2009-11-12 |
20090281841 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATING INSURANCE CLAIMS PROCESSING - Techniques for automating insurance claim processing are provided. The techniques include obtaining at least one rule from historical data, using the at least one rule to segment a dataset, wherein segmenting the dataset comprises using an iterative process, and wherein the iterative process comprises a decision tree, using the segmented dataset to determine if a claim can be automatically settled, and automatically settling a claim if it is determined that the claim can be automatically settled. | 2009-11-12 |