46th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130304412 | APPARATUS FOR TESTING ELECTRONIC DEVICES - An apparatus is described for burn-in and/or functional testing of microelectronic circuits of unsingulated wafers. A large number of power, ground, and signal connections can be made to a large number of contacts on a wafer. The apparatus has a cartridge that allows for fanning-in of electric paths. A distribution board has a plurality of interfaces that are strategically positioned to provide a dense configuration. The interfaces are connected through flexible attachments to an array of first connector modules. Each one of the first connector modules can be independently connected to a respective one of a plurality of second connector modules, thereby reducing stresses on a frame of the apparatus. Further features include for example a piston that allows for tight control of forces exerted by terminals onto contacts of a wafer. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304413 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBLITY OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - An electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing system includes a layout information obtaining module, a script loading module, a script executing module, and a report generating module. The layout information obtaining module obtains layout information of a printed circuit board. The script loading module loads an EMC testing script which includes EMC rules. The script executing module executes the EMC testing script to determine whether the layout information of the printed circuit board complies with the EMC rules. The report generating module generates an EMC report describing whether the layout information of the printed circuit board complies with the EMC rules. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304414 | MOBILITY DETERMINATION - A mobile device includes at least one accelerometer and a mobility state determiner to utilize the variance in output of the accelerometer(s) to distinguish at least between a walking state and a driving state of a user of the mobile device. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304415 | FENCE WITH LOCALIZED INTRUSION DETECTION - The invention relates to a system for detecting and locating an attempted intrusion into a perimeter defined by a fence. The invention comprises a management unit (UG), impact or vibration detectors (D), and a station (P) for processing data (UG). According to the invention: each detector is connected on one side to another detector and on the other side either to another detector or a management unit; each detector transmits data to the detector(s) and/or management unit to which it is directly connected; each detector receives data from the detector(s) and/or management unit to which it is connected; and a detector that receives data on one side transmits said data to the detector or management unit to which it is connected on the other side, in addition to transmitting data about events that it has detected. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304416 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PIVOTING ANGLE OF A WHEEL UNIT MOUNTED ONTO A SNAP-IN INFLATION VALVE - A method for determining a pivoting angle (α) of a wheel unit ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130304417 | DETERMINING AND ANALYZING MOVEMENT AND SPIN CHARACTERISTICS IN A GOLF SHOT - A system or apparatus ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130304418 | MONITORING ONE OR MORE TURBINE ENGINE ROTOR BLADES BY CORRELATING MEASUREMENT DATA AND REFERENCE DATA AS A FUNCTION OF TIME - A method is provided for monitoring one or more rotating turbine engine rotor blades using a processing system and a sensor having a measurement field. The method includes steps of: (i) providing measurement data from the sensor as a first of the rotor blades passes through the measurement field; (ii) correlating the measurement data with reference data as a function of time to provide correlation data; and (iii) processing the correlation data to determine a peak correlation value that corresponds to a point in time during the passage of the first of the rotor blades through the measurement field; wherein the correlating and the processing are performed by the processing system. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304419 | ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD FOR PROCESSING APPARATUS - An abnormality determination system for a processing apparatus includes: a data acquiring section that acquires time-series data changing with time from a signal outputted by a sensor installed in a processing apparatus for processing a processing object; a data selecting section that selects only model data, which is useful time-series data, from the time-series data acquired by the data acquiring section; a threshold value setting section configured to calculate variable threshold value data changing with time from the model data selected by the data selecting section; and a determining section configured to determine an occurrence of an abnormality by comparing time-series data to be monitored, acquired by the data acquiring section, with the variable threshold value data. The selection of model data is performed based on an evaluation performed by an inspection device which is configured to evaluate a processing result of the processing object performed by the processing apparatus. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304420 | PARAMETRIZABLE SYSTEM FOR CENTRALIZED MAINTENANCE INTENDED FOR AN AIRCRAFT - A system for centralized maintenance, intended for an aircraft comprising a set of devices necessary for the flight and able to issue fault messages or alert messages, the maintenance system being able to communicate with this set of devices, comprises a software kernel parametrizable by means of a database of parameters, the software kernel comprising at least four elementary cells: a first cell for acquiring the fault messages and alert messages originating from the set of devices of the aircraft, a second cell for formulating a maintenance diagnosis defined by means of the fault messages and alert messages, a third cell for formulating and displaying a maintenance report to a maintenance operator of the aircraft, defined on the basis of the maintenance diagnosis, a fourth cell for communicating between the maintenance operator and the set of devices of the aircraft. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304421 | REMOTE MONITOR SYSTEM - A remote monitor system for monitoring working status of a household electronic device includes a wireless control module, an audio input module, a monitor module, and an audio output module. The wireless control module receives a remote control signal. The audio input module receives a first audio signal. The wireless control module and the audio input module convert the first audio signal and the first audio signal to digital signals respectively. The monitor module receives the digital signals, and output instruction signals to the household electronic device for corresponding operations accordingly. The monitor module detects working status of the household electronic device, and outputs working status signals accordingly. The audio output module receives the working status signals, and converts the working status signals to a second audio signal. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304422 | Increased Dynamic Range Sensor - Some aspects of the present disclosure provide for a sensor system having a large range between minimum and maximum allowed input quantities. In some embodiments, the sensor system has a nonlinear sensor and a linear sensor. The nonlinear sensor is generates a first nonlinear signal corresponding to a detected physical input quantity. The linear sensor generates a second linear signal corresponding to the detected physical input quantity. A signal processor receives the first nonlinear signal and the second linear signal and generates a composite output signal that corresponds to the detected physical input quantity. The composite output signal is a combination of the first nonlinear signal and the second linear signal that provides for a signal having a high sensitivity to small physical input quantities while avoiding saturation at large physical input quantities. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304423 | HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY SENSOR NODE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A high energy efficiency sensor node and an operating method thereof are provided. The high energy efficiency sensor node may include a sensing unit to generate sensed information and to store the sensed information in a database when a set period commences, and a control unit to obtain n pieces of sensed information corresponding to n periods from the database, and to transmit the n pieces of sensed information obtained to a first neighbor node when the n periods elapse. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304424 | Metrology Tool With Combined X-Ray And Optical Scatterometers - Methods and systems for performing simultaneous optical scattering and small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements over a desired inspection area of a specimen are presented. SAXS measurements combined with optical scatterometry measurements enables a high throughput metrology tool with increased measurement capabilities. The high energy nature of x-ray radiation penetrates optically opaque thin films, buried structures, high aspect ratio structures, and devices including many thin film layers. SAXS and optical scatterometry measurements of a particular location of a planar specimen are performed at a number of different out of plane orientations. This increases measurement sensitivity, reduces correlations among parameters, and improves measurement accuracy. In addition, specimen parameter values are resolved with greater accuracy by fitting data sets derived from both SAXS and optical scatterometry measurements based on models that share at least one geometric parameter. The fitting can be performed sequentially or in parallel. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304425 | AUTOMATIC ANALYZER - An automatic analyzer and an automatic analyzing system to identify samples and reagents used in the analyzer and members used in measurement of at least two objects in common: system reagents or buffer solution; sensor parts; probes; nozzles; chips; dispensing cups; tubes; ISE electrodes; detectors; deionized water; and waste, and to unify management of identification information thereof and a measurement result. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304426 | Aircraft Wiring Layout Verification System - A method and apparatus for verifying routing of a number of signal lines in an aircraft. A number of pathways through a volume is identified in the aircraft for a desired routing of the number of signal lines using a preferred systems layout for the aircraft. A determination is made as to whether a designed routing of the number of signal lines in a design of the aircraft is within the number of pathways through the volume for the desired routing of the number of signal lines. The number of signal lines is identified as having the desired routing in response to a determination that the designed routing is within the number of pathways through the volume. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304427 | Unitized Cladding System, Method, and Software Program - A unitized cladding system that incorporates energy reducing and harvesting technologies may be installed on a building's exterior wall to reduce the building's net energy consumption and costs. A method for configuring a unitized cladding system to optimize a building's energy savings involves measuring the building's current energy consumption based on information relating to the building's site and composition, designing and assembling cladding units that incorporate suitable energy saving and harvesting modules, and measuring the effects of the cladding system on the building's net energy consumption. This method may be enabled by a software program product. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304428 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TIRE MODEL - A computerized method for generating a finite element model of a pneumatic tire provided in the tread portion with a zero-degree band is disclosed. Firstly, a tire model is generated based on the finished tire shape in a tire vulcanization mold, wherein the tire model includes a model of a band ply. Secondary, a residual stress is computed and defined on each element of the band ply model. Then, a deformation calculation is made on the tire model. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304429 | METHOD FOR PLANNING THE POSITIONING OF AN IMPLANT - The present invention relates to a method for planning the positioning of an implant relative to a body part, comprising the steps of:—identifying at least one reference feature of the body part and determining, in a first posture of the patient, a biunique positional and/or orientational relationship between the at least one reference feature and at least one adjustment parameter defined for the first posture, for positioning the implant;—identifying the at least one reference feature of the body part in a second posture of the patient;—deriving at least one corresponding adjustment parameter defined for the second posture from the position and/or orientation of the at least one reference feature in the second posture and the positional and/or orientational relationship between the at least one reference feature in the first posture and the at least one adjustment parameter defined for the first posture. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304430 | Three-Dimensional Tracer Dispersion Model - System for solving for the fully three-dimensional advection diffusion reaction (ADR) of dissolved or particulate tracers (biological or chemical materials) in aquatic environments including an input processor and an ADR tracer field processor. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304431 | AUTOMATICALLY ASESSING MATURITY OF CUSTOM APPLICATION FOR STANDARD-GOVERNED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and associated method for automatically assessing maturity for a custom application in a cloud computing environment in accordance with a standard application model. A data fabric analyzer automatically calculates a logical data model compliance level to a process model for the custom application, and a maturity level the logical data model against a standard logical data model. If the logical data model is mature, the data fabric analyzer transforms the logical data model to a physical data model for implementation by a distillation process and a shearing process. If the logical data model is immature, the process model maturity is assessed to employ a standard physical model for implementing the custom application. The data fabric analyzer subsequently computes non-compliance levels for the physical model and calculates a capital expenditure cost caused by non-compliance of the custom physical model to a standard physical model. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304432 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING PROTEIN STRUCTURE - The present invention relates to a method for predicting three-dimensional structure of a protein from its sequence. Three-dimensional structure may be determined by: (a) generating a multiple sequence alignment for a candidate protein having a known sequence; (b) identifying a covariance matrix between all pairs of sequence positions in the multiple sequence alignment; (c) inverting the covariance matrix and identifying predicted evolutionary constraints using a statistical model of the candidate protein; and (d) simulating folding of an extended chain structure of the candidate protein using the predicted constraints. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304433 | Ligand Identification Scoring - Disclosed are various embodiments for systems and methods for predicting ligand with high binding affinities for protein receptors, as reflected by the binding free energy of the protein-ligand complex. A set of ligands and protein receptors are analyzed. Based on empirically determined data, such as van der Waal forces, hydrogen bonding, metal chelation, and other properties known for certain ligands, the binding free energy for a particular protein-ligand complex may be predicted. In addition, results may be filtered by sampling a range of predicted binding affinities by changing the arrangement in which the ligand docks with the protein receptor. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304434 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH HIGH-THROUGHPUT TOPICAL ANALYSIS FOR SOLID STATE ELECTROLYTE MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A computing system includes: a voronoi tessellation formation module configured to form a voronoi tessellation for a solid separator; a modified tessellation generation module, coupled to the voronoi tessellation formation module, configured to: generate a modified tessellation by removing from the voronoi tessellation a node, an edge, or a combination thereof associated with a cation polygon except where the edge is less than an exception threshold, determine a channel dimensionality, a bottleneck size, a critical radius, or a combination thereof based on the modified tessellation; and a viability determination module, coupled to the modified tessellation generation module, configured to determine a viability of the solid separator based on the channel dimensionality, the bottleneck size, the critical radius, or a combination thereof. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304435 | CARBON FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS TOOL FOR STRUCTURES - An emission estimation program configured to calculate the amount of carbon generated during the life span of a structure by displaying a graphical user interface which is configured to gather structural information pertaining of the structure, receiving structural information pertaining to the size, types of material used in the structure and structural aspects of the structure, generating an estimated amount of carbon generated from the use of each type of material to construct the structure and the labor used to construct the structure based on the structural information, the types, and amounts of material and labor required to repair the structure after a destructive event occurs based on a calculated probability and magnitude of a destructive event occurring, generating and displaying an estimated amount of carbon emitted as a result of the materials used and the labor required to repair the structure after the destructive event occurs. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304436 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION OF HYDROCARBONS FROM UNDERGROUND DEPOSITS - A control system for use in extracting hydrocarbons from an underground deposit is disclosed that comprises an electromagnetic heating system and a processor. The electromagnetic heating system is configured to heat the underground deposit to facilitate fluid flow of a resource for extraction from the underground deposit. The processor is configured to control the electromagnetic heating system in response to temperature data and pressure data for the underground deposit. The processor correlates the temperature data and pressure data with predetermined water phase characteristics to control the electromagnetic heating system so that substantially all water in the underground deposit is maintained in a liquid state. The control system may also generate voxel data corresponding to spatial characteristics of the underground deposit. The spatial characteristics may be presented as a map on a display. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304437 | Systems and Methods for Hydraulic Fracture Characterization Using Microseismic Event Data - Systems and methods for hydraulic fracture characterization using microseismic event data to identify the orientation spacing and dip for subsurface fractures. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304438 | USE OF SURVIVAL MODELING METHODS WITH PIPELINE INSPECTION DATA FOR DETERMINING CAUSAL FACTORS FOR CORROSION UNDER INSULATION - Methods and systems for using survival modeling methods with pipeline inspection data to determine causal factors for corrosion under insulation comprise determining a first corrosion condition of a pipeline joint at a first time; determining a second corrosion condition of the pipeline joint at a second, subsequent time; determining joint attributes, pipeline attributes, and location attributes associated with the pipeline joint; and repeating the process for a plurality of pipeline joints in one or more pipelines. This information is fed into a multiple regression and survival analysis process that determines regression coefficients reflecting the estimated degrees to which various factors contribute to corrosion under insulation. The survival analysis also determines one or more survival models capable of predicting when a given pipeline joint is likely to transition from a first corrosion state to a different second corrosion state, given values for its various attributes. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304439 | TOLERANCES ON SIMULATED BEHAVIOR - A computer-implemented method for simulating behavior of a modeled object includes storing a tolerance attribute value in a memory area for a specified parameter of the modeled object, defining a set of rules representative of a plurality of assumptions of a model simulation, executing the model simulation based on the tolerance attribute, verifying an output of the model simulation with respect to a set of rules that are dependent on input and output values for which the tolerance attribute as verified, and validating the output behavior against requirements for every stage of the product lifecycle, from preliminary design to end of life. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304440 | VERIFICATION OF CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS USING OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS - A computer-implemented method for verifying a model in a product lifecycle management (PLM) system includes defining a model and an envelope of allowable model states and, based on one or more requirements, deriving at least one counterexample objective. The method also includes optimizing a set of parameters related to the allowable model states and the allowable model context, redefining at least one of the model and the allowable model states when the at least one counterexample objective is outside of a specified tolerance, and, after a predefined number of iterations, defining the model as verified. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304441 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR OFF-LINE CONTROL FOR SIMULATION OF COUPLED HYBRID DYNAMIC SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are provided for controlling the simulation of a coupled hybrid dynamic system. A physical test rig configured to drive the physical structure component of the system and to generate a test rig response as a result of applying a test rig drive signal. A processor is configured with a virtual model of a complementary system to the physical structure component. The processor receives the test rig response and generates a response of the complementary system based on a received test rig response. The system can be driven with a random input. The processor compares the test rig response with the response of the complementary system, the difference being used to form a system dynamic response model. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304442 | SCHEDULING DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION - The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and non-transitory article of manufacture embodying computer readable instructions for scheduling discrete event simulation. One embodiment of the present invention is a method for scheduling discrete event simulation. The method includes: extracting two or more event types in the discrete event simulation in response to having loaded the discrete event simulation; constructing a correlation graph used for the discrete event simulation based on the two or more event types; and scheduling events that are classified into the two or more event types according to the correlation graph wherein each node in the correlation graph describes one of the two or more event types, and an edge in the correlation graph describes the creation or dependency relationship between the two or more event types. Other embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus and computer program product for scheduling discrete event simulation. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304443 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DESIGNING A CURRENT SUPPLY AND COLLECTION DEVICE FOR A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM USING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE - Provided is a method for designing a current supply device for wirelessly supplying power to a vehicle having a current collection device. In the design method, the gap between the two adjacent magnetic poles of the current supply device is received as input and then the gap between the current supply device and the current collection device is determined based on the gap between the two magnetic poles. Next, the magnitude of the power to be supplied to the current supply device is determined based on the value required with respect to the magnitude of the magnetic field and the gap between the current supply device and the current collection device. According to the design method, current supply device can easily be designed since various functional requirements are decoupled from each other. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304444 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS OF DETERMINING VIABLE HYDRAULIC FRACTURE SCENARIOS - Determining viable hydraulic fracture scenarios. At least some of the illustrative embodiments include: executing a fracture planning program, and determining a set of schedules from the fracture planning program, each schedule comprising a volume of fracture fluid, amount of proppant, and flow rate of the fracture fluid; providing each schedule of the set of schedules to a stress analysis program, executing the stress analysis program, and determining a set of indications from the stress analysis program, each indication indicative of whether a respect schedule exceeds engineering limits of a tubing string; and providing at least some of the schedules to a fracture simulation program, executing the fracture simulation program, and determining a set of fracture geometries from the fracture simulation program, each fracture geometry corresponding to a respective schedule. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304445 | SIMULATION METHOD AND SIMULATOR APPARATUS - A geometric model of an organ represents its shape as a collection of elements formed from nodes and connections among them. A first vessel network model represents a network of first vessels whose diameters are larger than or equal to a threshold. A plurality of second vessel networks each represent a network of second vessels whose diameters are smaller than the threshold. In a simulator apparatus, a first analysis unit analyzes hemodynamics in the first vessels, based on the geometric model and first vessel network model of the organ and reflecting the motion of the organ. A second analysis unit analyzes hemodynamics in the second vessel network models connected to the nodes, by using output data of the first analysis unit which indicates the hemodynamics in the first vessels at each of the nodes. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304446 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC NAVIGATION OF A CAPSULE BASED ON IMAGE STREAM CAPTURED IN-VIVO - A system and method for automatically navigating an in vivo imaging capsule in a body lumen. The system comprises an imaging capsule including an imager, optional pressure sensor for producing data of forces acting on the imaging capsule in vivo, and a transmitter to transmit image, positioning and pressure data from the capsule to an external unit. A positioning system for providing current position data of the capsule in vivo may be included in the capsule and/or external to it. External magnets may generate a magnetic field to scan a body lumen by causing a predetermined motion pattern of the imaging capsule within a region proximate to its current position, and generate a driving force to propel the imaging capsule according to a calculated target direction vector. A processor may calculate a target direction vector for propelling the imaging capsule based, on unique patterns identifiable in one or more images. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304447 | Spike-timing computer modeling of working memory - Working memory (WM) is part of the brain's memory system that provides temporary storage and manipulation of information necessary for cognition. Although WM has limited capacity at any given time, it has vast memory content in the sense that it acts on the brain's nearly infinite repertoire of lifetime memories. As described, large memory content and WM functionality emerge spontaneously if the spike-timing nature of neuronal processing is taken into account. The memories are represented by extensively overlapping groups of neurons that exhibit stereotypical time-locked spatiotemporal spike-timing patterns, called polychronous patterns. Using computer-implemented simulations, associative synaptic plasticity in the form of short-term STDP selects such polychronous neuronal groups (PNGs) into WM by temporarily strengthening the synapses of the selected PNGs. This strengthening increases the spontaneous reactivation frequency of the selected PNGs, resulting in irregular, yet systematically changing elevated firing activity patterns consistent with those recorded in vivo during WM tasks. The computer-implemented model implements the relationship between such slowly changing firing rates and precisely timed spikes, and also reveals a novel relationship between WM and the perception of time on the order of seconds. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304448 | CONFIGURATION DEVICE FOR CONFIGURING A MODEL OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM - A configuration tool includes a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for configuring a model of a technical system and displaying the model on a display connected to a computer. The model includes at least two model components. Each model component has at least one port. Each model component is displayable in an expanded component representation on the display. The at least one port of each model component is connectable to at least one port of another model component by port association lines. Each model component is displayable in an expanded line representation on the display along with the at least one port and the port association lines of each model component. At least for one selected model component the port association lines connected to ports of the selected model component can be selected to be displayed in a reduced line representation. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304449 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ELECTROMIGRATION AVOIDANCE FOR AUTOMATIC PLACE-AND- ROUTE - A method includes identifying at least one local power segment of a circuit, estimating at least one performance parameter of the at least one power segment based on a computer-based simulation of the circuit, and changing a design of the circuit based on at least one electromigration avoidance strategy if the at least one parameter is greater than or equal to a threshold value. A data file representing the circuit is stored if the at least one parameter is less than the threshold value. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304450 | Method for Unified High-Level Hardware Description Language Simulation Based on Parallel Computing Platforms - A method to build a unified simulator for simulating a design on a parallel computing platform. The parallel computing platform comprises two or more (processors) cores which are deemed as an integral part of the unified simulator. The design is modeled in a high-level hardware description language. The design is first translated into a set of elements each comprising one or more simulation operations. Simulation operations from elements are next assigned, dynamically or statically, to one or more cores in a central processing unit (CPU) or in a multi-core system on the parallel computing platform to perform a parallel logic or fault simulation. Multiple (simulation) operation processing systems are used to process simulation operations in parallel. Simulation data in each element is managed to be self-contained so a fine-grained parallelism among multiple cores is achieved. Multiple communication links are available to enable the unified simulator to work with other third-party software to create new applications. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304451 | BUILDING MULTI-LANGUAGE PROCESSES FROM EXISTING SINGLE-LANGUAGE PROCESSES - Processes capable of accepting linguistic input in one or more languages are generated by re-using existing linguistic components associated with a different anchor language, together with machine translation components that translate between the anchor language and the one or more languages. Linguistic input is directed to machine translation components that translate such input from its language into the anchor language. Those existing linguistic components are then utilized to initiate responsive processing and generate output. Optionally, the output is directed through the machine translation components. A language identifier can initially receive linguistic input and identify the language within which such linguistic input is provided to select an appropriate machine translation component. A hybrid process, comprising machine translation components and linguistic components associated with the anchor language, can also serve as an initiating construct from which a single language process is created over time. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304452 | MANAGEMENT OF LANGUAGE USAGE TO FACILITATE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION - Provided are techniques for providing annotations for revising a message. A message to be sent from a sender to a recipient is received. A meaning map associated with the sender and a meaning map associated with the recipient are obtained. The message is parsed into sub-constructs. The sub-constructs are compared in the meaning map associated with the sender and the meaning map associated with the recipient. Alternative language for the sub-constructs is identified. Annotations are provided based on the alternative language. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304453 | Automated Extraction of Semantic Content and Generation of a Structured Document from Speech - Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating structured documents based on speech, including identification of relevant concepts and their interpretation. In one embodiment, a structured document generator uses an integrated process to generate a structured textual document (such as a structured textual medical report) based on a spoken audio stream. The spoken audio stream may be recognized using a language model which includes a plurality of sub-models arranged in a hierarchical structure. Each of the sub-models may correspond to a concept that is expected to appear in the spoken audio stream. Different portions of the spoken audio stream may be recognized using different sub-models. The resulting structured textual document may have a hierarchical structure that corresponds to the hierarchical structure of the language sub-models that were used to generate the structured textual document. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304454 | MEDIATION COMPUTING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR GENERATING SEMANTIC TAGS - A computing device, computer system and associated method are provided to mediate a conversation in a manner that facilitates the inclusion of semantic tags within the conversation. In the context of a method, user input may be received relating to maintenance of a system. The method also determines, with processing circuitry, a candidate tag based upon semantic context of the user input. Additionally, the method provides an indication of the candidate tag to the user and receives a response from the user regarding validity of the candidate tag with respect to the semantic context of the user input. The method may also store the maintenance report including the user input and an associated tag. A corresponding mediation computing device and an associated computer system are also provided. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304455 | MANAGEMENT OF LANGUAGE USAGE TO FACILITATE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION - Provided are techniques for providing annotations for revising a message. A message to be sent from a sender to a recipient is received. A meaning map associated with the sender and a meaning map associated with the recipient are obtained. The message is parsed into sub-constructs. The sub-constructs are compared in the meaning map associated with the sender and the meaning map associated with the recipient. Alternative language for the sub-constructs is identified. Annotations are provided based on the alternative language. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304456 | Systems and Methods for Word Offensiveness Processing Using Aggregated Offensive Word Filters - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for identifying language that would be considered obscene or otherwise offensive to a user or proprietor of a system. A first plurality of offensive words are received, and a second plurality of offensive words are received. A string of words are received, where one or more detected offensive words are selected from the string of words that matches words from the first plurality of offensive words or the second plurality of offensive words. The string of words is processed based upon the detection of offensive words in the string of words. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304457 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING COMMUNICATION SERVICE - An operation method capable of adaptively operating at least one of a Speech To Text (STT) service and a Text To Speech (TTS) service according to setting or user operation and a system thereof are provided. The method includes requesting a specific type of a communication service connection to a reception side terminal by a transmission side terminal, and performing an operation of at least one of a speech to text service providing speech recognition based text and a text to speech service converting the text into speech data between the reception side terminal and the transmission side terminal, and includes one of recognizing speech data provided from the transmission side terminal and converting the speech data into a text based on a first speech process supporting device connected to the transmission side terminal. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304458 | BANDWIDTH DEPENDENT AUDIO QUALITY ADJUSTMENT - A system includes a controller that provides an output control signal based on two or more control inputs. The controller determines an indication of radio frequency (RF) bandwidth availability based on a given one of the control inputs. The output control signal can correspond to the RF bandwidth availability and status of at least one other wireless condition affecting RF bandwidth. An audio quality adjuster can adjust quality parameters used to encode an audio stream for one or more audio sinks based on the output control signal. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304459 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS - A method for processing an audio signal (i(t)), comprises: receiving a first set (x(t)) of time-varying signals representing a first sound comprised in the audio signal (i(t)), the first set (x(t)) of time-varying signals comprising an amplitude modulation signal (a(t)), a carrier frequency signal (f | 2013-11-14 |
20130304460 | Method for Encoding Signal, and Method for Decoding Signal - The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, and system for encoding and decoding signals. The encoding method includes: converting a first-domain signal into a second-domain signal; performing Linear Prediction (LP) processing and Long-Term Prediction (LTP) processing for the second-domain signal; obtaining a long-term flag value according to a decision criterion; obtaining a second-domain predictive signal according to the LP processing result and the LTP processing result when the long-term flag value is a first value; obtaining a second-domain predictive signal according to the LP processing result when the long-term flag value is a second value; converting the second-domain predictive signal into a first-domain predictive signal, and calculating a first-domain predictive residual signal; and outputting a bit stream that includes the first-domain predictive residual signal. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304461 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR VOICE QUALITY ENHANCEMENT - A voice quality enhancement (VQE) detector for a network element receiving an audio signal from a previous network element of a network, wherein said voice quality enhancement detector is adapted: to perform a voice quality enhancement detection based on the received audio signal, wherein said voice quality enhancement detection comprises detecting that at least one voice quality enhancement function, VQEF, was applied to the received audio signal by at least one previous network element of the network; and to control a voice quality enhancement processing of the received audio signal depending on the detection result. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304462 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus including: a first A/D converter configured to execute A/D conversion by adjusting an input signal with a first gain; a second A/D converter configured to execute A/D conversion by adjusting an input signal with a second gain that is smaller than the first gain; a synthesis block configured to synthesize a first signal obtained by conversion by the first A/D converter with a second signal obtained by conversion by the second A/D converter to output a resultant synthesized signal if the first signal is clipped; and a signal processing block configured to execute signal processing by use of the signal outputted from the synthesis block. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304463 | NOISE CANCELLATION METHOD - An embodiment of the invention provides a noise cancellation method for an electronic device. The method comprises: receiving an audio signal; applying a Fast Fourier Transform operation on the audio signal to generate a sound spectrum; acquiring a first spectrum corresponding to a noise and a second spectrum corresponding to a human voice signal from the sound spectrum; estimating a center frequency according to the first spectrum and the second spectrum; and applying a high pass filtering operation to the sound spectrum according to the center frequency. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304464 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY DETECTING A VOICE ACTIVITY IN AN INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL - The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for adaptively detecting a voice activity in an input audio signal composed of frames. The method comprises the steps of: determining a noise characteristic of the input signal based on a received frame of the input audio signal; deriving a voice activity detection (VAD) parameter based on the noise characteristic of the input audio signal; and comparing the derived VAD parameter with a threshold value to provide a voice activity detection decision. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304465 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIO-VIDEO INTEGRATION - A method of dictation is described which, after transcription, integrates video into text at locations designated by the user. A user collects audio and visual information using an application that has been installed on the user's mobile device. The user designates, using the application, the desired location of the video files within the audio file. Both the audio and video information are uploaded to a transcription provider. The transcription provider uses transcription software to transcribe the audio files into text, the transcription software being able to identify the transcriptionist as to the location within the audio file each video is to be inserted. The transcribed document with integrated audio and video is then delivered back to the user. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304466 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING SPEECH-TO-TEXT ENCODING AND TELEPHONY SERVICE - A machine-readable medium and a network device are provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual representations thereof are displayed as words on a display device. Speech processing is activated and deactivated in response to a command from a subscriber. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304467 | Word-Level Correction of Speech Input - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for correcting words in transcribed text including receiving speech audio data from a microphone. The method further includes sending the speech audio data to a transcription system. The method further includes receiving a word lattice transcribed from the speech audio data by the transcription system. The method further includes presenting one or more transcribed words from the word lattice. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one of the presented transcribed words. The method further includes presenting one or more alternate words from the word lattice for the selected transcribed word. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one of the alternate words. The method further includes replacing the selected transcribed word in the presented transcribed words with the selected alternate word. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304468 | Contextual Voice Query Dilation - A method for contextual voice query dilation in a Spoken Web search includes determining a context in which a voice query is created, generating a set of multiple voice query terms based on the context and information derived by a speech recognizer component pertaining to the voice query, and processing the set of query terms with at least one dilation operator to produce a dilated set of queries. A method for performing a search on a voice query is also provided, including generating a set of multiple query terms based on information derived by a speech recognizer component processing a voice query, processing the set with multiple dilation operators to produce multiple dilated sub-sets of query terms, selecting at least one query term from each dilated sub-set to compose a query set, and performing a search on the query set. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304469 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Among multiple documents presented to a user, a high interest and a low interest document are specified, a word group in the high interest document is compared with a word group in the low interest document, and a string of word groups associated weight values is generated as a user feature vector. A word group included in each of multiple data items targeted for assigning priorities is extracted, and data feature vectors are generated specific to each data item, based on the word groups extracted. A degree of similarity between each data feature vectors of multiple data items and user feature vector is obtained, and according to the degree of similarity, priorities are assigned to the multiple data items to be presented to the user. Therefore, it is possible to extract user's feature information on which the user's interests and tastes are reflected more effectively. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304471 | Contextual Voice Query Dilation - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for contextual voice query dilation in a Spoken Web search. The method includes determining a context in which a voice query is created, generating a set of multiple voice query terms based on the context and information derived by a speech recognizer component pertaining to the voice query, and processing the set of query terms with at least one dilation operator to produce a dilated set of queries. A method for performing a search on a voice query is provided, including generating a set of multiple query terms based on information derived by a speech recognizer component processing a voice query, processing the set with multiple dilation operators to produce multiple dilated sub-sets of query terms, selecting at least one query term from each dilated sub-set to compose a query set, and performing a search on the query set. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304472 | AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT OF SPEECH FLUENCY - Techniques are described for automatically measuring fluency of a patient's speech based on prosodic characteristics thereof. The prosodic characteristics may include statistics regarding silent pauses, filled pauses, repetitions, or fundamental frequency of the patient's speech. The statistics may include a count, average number of occurrences, duration, average duration, frequency of occurrence, standard deviation, or other statistics. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an audio sample that includes speech of a patient, analyzing the audio sample to identify prosodic characteristics of the speech of the patient, and automatically measuring fluency of the speech of the patient based on the prosodic characteristics. These techniques may present several advantages, such as objectively measuring fluency of a patient's speech without requiring a manual transcription or other manual intervention in the analysis process. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTI-MODAL DEVICE INTERACTIONS IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE VOICE SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for processing multi-modal device interactions in a natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, one or more multi-modal device interactions may be received in a natural language voice services environment that includes one or more electronic devices. The multi-modal device interactions may include a non-voice interaction with at least one of the electronic devices or an application associated therewith, and may further include a natural language utterance relating to the non-voice interaction. Context relating to the non-voice interaction and the natural language utterance may be extracted and combined to determine an intent of the multi-modal device interaction, and a request may then be routed to one or more of the electronic devices based on the determined intent of the multi-modal device interaction. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDIBLY PRESENTING SELECTED TEXT - Disclosed herein are methods for presenting speech from a selected text that is on a computing device. This method includes presenting text on a touch-sensitive display and having that text size within a threshold level so that the computing device can accurately determine the intent of the user when the user touches the touch screen. Once the user touch has been received, the computing device identifies and interprets the portion of text that is to be selected, and subsequently presents the text audibly to the user. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304475 | SWITCHING BETWEEN ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS IN A CONVERTIBLE VEHICLE - A method of configuring an acoustics system of a convertible vehicle to receive speech from an occupant of the vehicle who is using hand-free technology. The position of the top of the convertible is first determined and based upon whether the top is up or down, an audio reception configuration is selected. The audio reception configuration includes a set of tuning parameters and a microphone arrangement. The acoustics system is then configured based upon the determination of whether the top is up or down. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304476 | Audio User Interaction Recognition and Context Refinement - A system which performs social interaction analysis for a plurality of participants includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine a similarity between a first spatially filtered output and each of a plurality of second spatially filtered outputs. The processor is configured to determine the social interaction between the participants based on the similarities between the first spatially filtered output and each of the second spatially filtered outputs and display an output that is representative of the social interaction between the participants. The first spatially filtered output is received from a fixed microphone array, and the second spatially filtered outputs are received from a plurality of steerable microphone arrays each corresponding to a different participant. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304477 | Computer, Internet and Telecommunications Based Network - A method and apparatus for a computer and telecommunication network which can receive, send and manage information from or to a subscriber of the network, based on the subscriber's configuration. The network is made up of at least one cluster containing voice servers which allow for telephony, speech recognition, text-to-speech and conferencing functions, and is accessible by the subscriber through standard telephone connections or through internet connections. The network also utilizes a database and file server allowing the subscriber to maintain and manage certain contact lists and administrative information. A web server is also connected to the cluster thereby allowing access to all functions through internet connections. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304478 | SPEAKER AUTHENTICATION METHODS AND RELATED METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - An embodiment of the invention provides a method of preparing for speaker authentication. The method includes: receiving speech data that represents an utterance made by a user; extracting side information; examining the side information to determine whether to allow speaker model training using the speech data; and generating a feedback message for the user based on the side information if speaker model training using the speech data is not allowed. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304479 | Sustained Eye Gaze for Determining Intent to Interact - Methods and systems for determining intent in voice and gesture interfaces are described. An example method includes determining that a gaze direction is in a direction of a gaze target, and determining whether a predetermined time period has elapsed while the gaze direction is in the direction of the gaze target. The method may also include providing an indication that the predetermined time period has elapsed when the predetermined time period has elapsed. According to the method, a voice or gesture command that is received after the predetermined time period has elapsed may be determined to be an input for a computing system. Additional example systems and methods are described herein. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304480 | ENCODING AND DECODING OF SLOT POSITIONS OF EVENTS IN AN AUDIO SIGNAL FRAME - An apparatus for decoding, an apparatus for encoding, a method for decoding and a method for encoding positions of slots having events in an audio signal frame and respective computer programs and encoded signals, wherein the apparatus for decoding has: an analysing unit for analysing a frame slots number indicating the total of slots of the audio signal frame, an event slots number indicating the number of slots having the events of the audio signal frame, and an event state number, and a generating unit for generating an indication of a plurality of positions of slots having the events in the audio signal frame using the frame slots number, the event slots number and the event state number. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304481 | Determining the Inter-Channel Time Difference of a Multi-Channel Audio Signal - There is provided a method and device for determining an inter-channel time difference of a multi-channel audio signal having at least two channels. A set of local maxima of a cross-correlation function involving at least two different channels of the multi-channel audio signal is determined (S | 2013-11-14 |
20130304482 | Auto-Populated Medication Selection & Ordering System - A medication ordering system comprises at least one repository including information identifying candidate medication orders and associated related order parameters including dosage and route of administration. An order processor, in response to user entry of text, compiles a list of medication orders, by, searching the information to identify order data items representing medication orders including matching text and by collating the identified order items to provide a compiled list. The compiled list having itemized hierarchical priority of, (1) orders most frequently placed by the user for a patient with a particular hospital admission department, (2) orders most frequently placed by multiple different users of the ordering system and (3) other orders placed by users of the ordering system. A display processor initiates generation of a display image enabling a user to select orders from the compiled list. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304483 | Method and System for Promoting a Pharmaceutical Product - A method implemented by a trusted third-party computing system assists a manufacturer of a prescription pharmaceutical product to promote that product by authorizing a pharmacy that makes one or more sales of the product to make one or more future purchases on promotional payment terms. The method includes receiving one or more electronic notifications that indicate the pharmacy has made one or more sales of the prescription pharmaceutical product to one or more patients, and then validating that the one or more indicated sales have actually occurred. Validation may entail validating data fields in each received notification and/or validating that the one or more sales are consistent with the pharmacy's inventory. Responsive to this validation, the method includes generating and sending control signalling based on the one or more indicated sales for triggering the manufacturer to authorize the pharmacy to make one or more future purchases on promotional payment terms. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304484 | CLINICAL TRIALS SUBJECT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - Matching a subject with a clinical trial includes steps of: collecting patient data associated with the subject; collecting clinical trial data from multiple sources; matching the subject to a clinical trial scheduled in a location accessible to the subject; notifying a health care provider associated with the subject about the clinical trial; and receiving a response. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304485 | Method of referring patients to healthcare providers - A method of referring patients to healthcare providers may drastically reduce the inefficiencies of current referral systems and may enable healthcare providers to focus more time, energy, and financial resources on patient care. In one embodiment, an ill patient may be referred to a hospital using a direct admit system for hospitals (“DASH”) that streamlines the hospital admission process for ill patients being assessed by clinicians in outpatient or inpatient medical facilities. In another embodiment, a direct online contact system for healthcare providers (“DOC-Connect”) may streamline communication between clinicians and various healthcare facilities and services. DOC-Connect may provide a method for ensuring efficient and appropriate transmittal and scheduling of referrals and services requiring further care by directly connecting a clinician or other healthcare provider acting as a healthcare referral initiator with another healthcare provider acting as a healthcare referral recipient using a central management system. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304486 | SYSTEM, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE-MEDIUM PROVIDING PAYMENT ACCOUNTS FOR HEALTHCARE RELATED SECURE REGISTRY - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and system for providing an ability to contribute towards specific items may be provided. A consumer account may be created for a consumer and managed by a consumer account management system. A contribution to the consumer account may be received from a benefactor. Rules may be applied designating a purchase of specialty items which may be relevant to a particular disease or disorder at a given stage or treatment cycle of the disease or disorder. The specialty items may be associated with vendor systems. The benefactor's contribution may be credited to the consumer account. Sales transaction data and financial data may be received. Data regarding the specialty items, consumers, vendor systems, sales transactions, and the disease or disorder may be stored. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304487 | COOPERATIVE MEDICAL SYSTEM - Disclosed is a cooperative medical system including a data management server and terminal devices provided at medical facilities which are connected with the data management server to perform data communication therebetween. In the cooperative medical system, a first terminal device in the plurality of terminal devices includes a setting unit which establishes a setting between a second terminal device and a third terminal device to enable data communication therebetween, and the data management server stores medical information data which is sent from one of the second terminal device and the third terminal device in a data storage region allocated to a medical facility where the first terminal device is provided, and the data management server includes a data management unit which permits the medical information data stored in the data storage region to be read out from the other of the second terminal device and the third terminal device. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304488 | METHOD TO SUPPORT AN ADVANCED HOME SERVICES COORDINATION PLATFORM - A method coordinating home services is provided, including receiving a request for home services from a customer over a network and forwarding the request from the customer to a home services coordinator over the network. A reputation system assists the home services coordinator to select a service provider based on customer needs, preferences, and a reputation of the service provider. Information sufficient to permit the service provider to select a home delivery provider that can satisfy customer needs is provided to the selected service provider over the network. The selected home delivery provider is provided with access to customer data and with access to a customer physical system over the network, to provide the service. Feedback is requested from the customer after the service has been delivered, and is used in the reputation system to update the customer preferences and the reputation of the service provider. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304489 | Remote Monitoring And Diagnostics Of Medical Devices - A system or method to authenticate with a medical device, identify the device, and subsequently communicate with any existing or newly added medical devices is presented. The system also is capable of gathering, analyzing and evaluating information from medical devices connected to a health care network. The present disclose leverages embedded device servers to transmit information from medical devices to a hospital information system for further evaluation, or action when required. A module or embedded device may be associated with any specific medical device such that communication between the device and the hospital system may take place whereby information may be received by the hospital information system to evaluate medical device functionality and other important characteristics as desired by the administrator. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304490 | DECISION SUPPORT RESPONSE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computer-implemented method for managing data for a clinical decision support system includes providing a computer management system including a server and a database, and downloading the decision support system onto the computer management system. The decision support system includes a plurality of rules and receives data. The method also includes accessing the decision support system and issuing an alert associated with a predetermined data pattern to at least one client system according to the rules, receiving a request for additional information from the at least one client system in response to the issued alert, determining additional data that has been requested, and retrieving the additional information associated with the issued alert. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304491 | MEDICAL INFORMATION VERIFICATION SYSTEM - A medical information verification system according to an embodiment comprises a time stamp management unit which includes: a medium information storage unit configured to acquire/store medium information calculated based on information of a medical management target file to be stored in a medium; a verification identification value generation unit configured to generate a medical management target file group by bundling the medium information of different media and generating a verification identification value corresponding to the medical management target file group; a time stamp acquisition unit configured to acquire a time stamp to be added to the verification identification value from a certificate authority; a time stamp information storage unit configured to store time stamp information of the time stamp in association with the medical management target file group; and a time stamp information transmission unit configured to transmit the time stamp information in response to time stamp inquiry requests. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING AND DELIVERING A THERAPEUTIC MEAL PLAN PROGRAM - A system and method develops a customized meal plan for a patient based on a chemotherapy treatment regimen for the patient and delivers the corresponding food items of the meal plan to the patient. The customized meal plan is designed to mitigate the physical effects and nutritional losses associated with chemotherapy and other cancer related treatments, such as radiation therapy. As the medical condition of the patient changes, the meal plan can be revised to provide updated customization. The meal plan may be developed using information provided by the patient, a caregiver, such as a nurse or physician, or a combination thereof. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304493 | DISEASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for interactive guided personalized/personalizable patient disease management system. The system offers ongoing personalized education in response to user inputs which may include a patient's electronic health record, diagnostic codes, billing codes, and/or medical history, the ability to monitor a patient's progress throughout their treatment plan which is initially provided by the system and a patient support community for boosting patient treatment plan compliance through ongoing monitoring and personal coaching. The systems and methods provide personalized relevant diagnostic, prognostic, prevention and/or treatment information output which are curated to manage the patient's needs. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304494 | COHORT DRIVEN SELECTION OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC TESTS - A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product creates a suggested diagnostic test selection. A description of a current patient includes a current medical complaint, medical history, and physical examination result for the current patient. A cohort for the current patient is made up of persons who have a substantially similar medical complaint, medical history, and physical examination result as the current patient. Past diagnostic test sets used to make correct medical diagnoses for persons in the cohort are identified and stored in a cohort diagnostic test database. The past diagnostic test sets are sorted based on increasing levels of detrimental effects posed by each of the past diagnostic test sets. The sorted diagnostic test sets are then presented to a health care provider for the current patient. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304495 | INTEGRATED HEALTH & FINANCIAL BENEFITS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A medical shared savings unit receives a selection from one or more computing devices to select a medical provider in a region outside the United States for a patient as part of a medical savings plan, and accesses the medical plan information from the data store, and calculates a savings based on a difference between a cost of the medical procedure performed in the region outside the United States and a cost of the medical procedure performed within the United States. The medical shared savings unit further divides the savings between the insurer and the employer based on a medical savings plan model when the patient undergoes the medical procedure in the region outside the United States. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304496 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CLINICAL FLOW AND OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for optimizing clinical flow and operational efficiencies in a network environment is provided and includes generating a patient care plan for each patient in a medical care facility, generating a patient pathway for each patient, executing the patient care plans and the patient pathways of the respective patients during encounters associated with the respective patients, capturing real time data during the execution of the patient care plans and the patient pathways, performing an analysis on the real time data, and displaying the real time data in a visual display. The patient care plan includes one or more activities, and each activity includes one or more tasks. Each patient pathway includes one or more activities and one or more intermediate products. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304497 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEALTH CARE CREDIT TRANSACTIONS - Systems, methods, and computer program media for creating, managing, backing, and transferring health care credits are described. Health care credits may be implemented as freely transferable financial instruments whose initial value can be based on costs or savings generated by an individual, or by a health care provider, that are associated with a health-related metric or a health benefiting behavior(s). | 2013-11-14 |
20130304498 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CLINICAL FLOW AND OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for optimizing clinical flow and operational efficiencies in a network environment is provided and includes generating a patient care plan for each patient in a medical care facility, generating a patient pathway for each patient, executing the patient care plans and the patient pathways of the respective patients during encounters associated with the respective patients, capturing real time data during the execution of the patient care plans and the patient pathways, performing an analysis on the real time data, and displaying the real time data in a visual display. The patient care plan includes one or more activities, and each activity includes one or more tasks. Each patient pathway includes one or more activities and one or more intermediate products. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CLINICAL FLOW AND OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for optimizing clinical flow and operational efficiencies in a network environment is provided and includes generating a patient care plan for each patient in a medical care facility, generating a patient pathway for each patient, executing the patient care plans and the patient pathways of the respective patients during encounters associated with the respective patients, capturing real time data during the execution of the patient care plans and the patient pathways, performing an analysis on the real time data, and displaying the real time data in a visual display. The patient care plan includes one or more activities, and each activity includes one or more tasks. Each patient pathway includes one or more activities and one or more intermediate products. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304500 | Interactive Patient Medication List - Systems, methods and devices for managing patient medication data which include, in one implementation, displaying in a user-interface movable medication containers for medications in a list of medications for a patient, each medication container having a corresponding medication category; displaying a receptacle for organizing the medications, the receptacle having multiple layers having corresponding medication categories in a first dimension, each layer configured to receive one or more medication containers; and receiving a first medication container from the movable medication containers that is dragged into a layer in the first dimension having a corresponding medication category that matches the medication category of the first medication container. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304501 | OPTIMIZED SPECIMEN COLLECTION FOR LABORATORY TESTS - Embodiments of the invention relate to methods of optimizing the collection of specimens, e.g., of blood, when multiple laboratory tests have been prescribed at one time for a patient. Laboratory tests may use specimens such as blood, drawn, e.g., through venipuncture, and patients may experience greater discomfort, inconvenience, and/or anxiety as more and more blood is collected, and at greater expense. Embodiments of the invention include computer systems configured to optimize the collection of specimens for laboratory tests to reduce the number of specimens that must be collected from a patient for any given set of laboratory tests. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304502 | PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT AND COMMUNICATION TOOL - The present invention relates to a substance with pharmaceutical activity against a medical condition for use in a treatment of said medical condition in combination with a computer program product comprising instructions causing a computer to perform a method comprising the steps —providing a patient with a set of questions according to a question schedule, wherein said set of questions is specific to the pharmaceutical product; —collecting answers to said questions from said patient; —subjecting said answers to a set of functions specific for the set of questions and the pharmaceutical product thereby generating patient-specific feedback information; —providing said feedback information to the patient; and —optionally extracting clinically relevant information from said answers and providing said clinically relevant information to a database adapted for collecting clinically relevant information during clinical use of said substance. The invention further relates to a corresponding kit-of-parts comprising the substance and the computer program product, and the computer program product and its method as such. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304503 | Customization of a Dose Distribution Setting for a Technical Appliance for Tumour Therapy - The aim of the invention is to provide a planner with the opportunity to effect local improvement of an IMRT treatment plan which is available to him. To this end, a method for customizing a dose distribution setting for a technical appliance in tumor therapy is proposed. A first plan ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130304504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLINICAL TRIAL DESIGN - A method of collecting input from individuals comprising searching a database containing a plurality of individual's electronic health records (EHRs), assigning a unique patient key to each individual's EHR and removing the individual's identifying characteristics from the EHR with a computer having a memory and a processor operating a HIPAA privacy filter to provide de-identified EHRs, maintaining a confidential record of each individual's identifying characteristics associated with the unique patient key. De-identified EHRs are analyzed to define members of a target group. An electronic communication including a survey is passed through a linker/delinker to link contact information associated with the unique patient key of a member of the target group and sent to a member of the target group. A response from the member is received and passed through the HIPAA privacy filter to associate the response with the unique patient key. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304505 | Managing Secure Sharing of Private Medication Information Across Security Domains - A method of granting a user in a first organization access to private medication information stored within an authorization profile of a second organization, an access agreement between the two organizations is formed. Authorization is requested for the user, the authorization profile is retrieved, and authorization to private information is granted if authorized by the access agreement. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304506 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING HEALTH RISKS - A method and system for tracking health care metrics over time is disclosed which involves aggregating health related data via computer in a common computer database, de-identifying persons in the data in the database to remove personally identifiable information (PII) and personal Health information (PHI), matching de-identified persons with the related data, analyzing the matched de-identified persons and related data to generate populations utilizing risk, condition, and appropriateness of care algorithms, stratifying the population into predefined groups, identifying opportunities for health improvement, disseminating the opportunities to the persons in the groups; and tracking the groups over time to ascertain success of the opportunities disseminated. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304507 | CLINICAL NOTE GENERATOR - Automation of clinical note generation is provided. A narrative generation system is provided which enables creation, storage, and editing of digital representations of paper measures. The note generation system may further enable rules to be established which specify the manner in which a narrative is generated for a given patient measure based upon the completed patient measures. When a clinical note is to be generated for the completed patient measure, the patient measure may be retrieved and analyzed by the note generation system according to the rules. The note generation system may further output the generated narrative in clinical notes displaying the completed patient measures and generated narrative for review and editing, as necessary, by a clinician. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304508 | System and Method for Collaborative Patient Engagement - A system for facilitating collaborative engagement among a plurality of entities. The system includes a common interactive platform for allowing the various entities to interact collaboratively and with the system. The entities include one or more of a patient, healthcare provider, and the healthcare provider related entities, and a patient related entity, the patient related entity bearing a relationship with the patient as defined by an associated relationship identity number associated with the patient related entity in association with the respective patient. The system further includes or is coupled to a patient information database and a clinical data repository. The system further includes a processing unit to process stored programmed instructions for enabling collaborative engagement among the entities. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304509 | System for Identifying and Delivering Services for Delivery to Pharmacy Patients - A computer system ( | 2013-11-14 |
20130304510 | HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A health information exchange (HIE) system and related methods for sharing patient medical data among a plurality of users. In one embodiment, the HIE system includes a processor executing a software application and one or more databases. Medical data may be downloaded by a first user to the system in a source file format. The system converts and stores the medical data in a data record such as an object having a different type of data structure. Upon receiving a request from a second user for the medical data in a specified destination file format, the system retrieves and converts the object containing the medical data into the specified destination file format, and sends the destination file to the second user. The source and destination file formats may be the same or different. In one embodiment, users may access and communicate with the HIE system via the Internet. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304511 | PATIENT CARE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems, method, and computer program products are provided for a patient care application. The patient care application provides for a personal reference list for patients, and healthcare providers alike. According to specific embodiments, the patient care application aids in facilitating communication between ambulatory and inpatient care settings such that a patient can track their physician and/or healthcare specialist visits and hospital admissions/discharge history via a mobile device. Likewise, a physician or healthcare professional may access patient demographics, insurance information, and healthcare admission/discharge history via the mobile device. Furthermore, the patient care application allows a physician or healthcare professional to receive or submit information pertaining to the admission of a patient via the mobile device. | 2013-11-14 |
20130304512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING DATA IN A CLINICAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for sharing data in a clinical network environment is provided in one example embodiment and includes associating a participant with a community in a clinical network environment comprising patients, medical providers, and payors, determining participant access privileges to data in a database, and providing access to the data according to a predetermined mode of sharing associated with the data. The data includes medical data, financial data and operations data associated with patients, medical providers and payors. The predetermined mode of sharing can include pessimistic mode, optimistic mode, or opportunistic mode. According to the optimistic mode, all data in the database is accessible to all participants in the community. According to the pessimistic mode, selected data in the database is accessible to all participants in the community. According to the opportunistic mode, selected customized data in the database is accessible to specific participants in the community. | 2013-11-14 |