48th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080294382 | Method and apparatus for pump fault prediction - Example embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for pump fault prediction. A method of predicting a pump fault according to example embodiments may include collecting data in real time for qualitative variables associated with a pump and a corresponding semiconductor fabricating process, wherein the pump is configured to create a vacuum in a chamber during the semiconductor fabricating process. Principal components may be identified based on the collected data. Principal components exerting a primary influence on the operation of the pump may be selected from the identified principal components. A management variable may be generated to represent variations of the selected principal components. The management-variable may be monitored in real time to predict a pump fault. A pump fault prediction apparatus according to example embodiments may include a sensor connected to a pump to collect data in real time for qualitative variables associated with the pump and a corresponding semiconductor fabricating process. A controller may be connected to the sensor and may determine that the pump is in an abnormal state if the management variable (e.g., T | 2008-11-27 |
20080294383 | Mobile device throughput testing - The instant invention is a program applet that can be loaded onto mobile devices and directly interfaces with the operating system and automated test scripts. The program applet is capable of initiating the required transfer and will provide information regarding the progress of the transfer such that a test client can properly calculate the data throughput rates. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294384 | PROVIDING EVENT-CONTROLLED CONTINUOUS LOGGING FOR A MOBILE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT - Providing for event-controlled continuous logging for a mobile operating environment is described herein. For instance, collection of mobile device operating system (OS) log data can be initiated and terminated as a result of one or more predetermined events. The events can both trigger collection as well as terminate collection of the log data. Further, limiting collection/termination of log data to particular log index codes is also described herein, enabling logging of data pertinent to one or more determinable events. As described, the subject specification discloses mechanisms to initiate and to terminate continuous logging of mobile OS log codes as a result of occurrence of one or more determinable events. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294385 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE FOR SYSTEMS IN DIFFERENTIAL CONFIGURATION - The general field of the invention is that of signal measurement and processing devices comprising two systems allowing a signal and its opposite to be simultaneously received at the input and two signals able to take polynomial form, as a function of the input signals, to be returned. The device according to the invention comprises means for performing a weighted sum and difference of the two output signals in such a manner that at least the weighted sum is independent to a first order of the variations in the input signals. This processing operation is particularly well adapted to systems subjected to spurious effects such as thermal drifts. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294386 | Method and Device For Interference Suppression in Electromagnetic Multi-Channel Measurement - The present invention recognises and eliminates from a biomagnetic measurement signal interferences whose source is disposed in the direct vicinity of an object being measured. The invention utilises the SSS method that can be used to separate from one another the signals associated with the internal and external sources of a set of measurement sensors by calculating two series developments. The sources to be examined in the invention and disposed in the so-called intermediate space produce a component to both of the developments, and can, therefore, be detected by means of an analysis to be performed in a time domain. This division into components can be made using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) or the Singular Value Decomposition. Finally, the clarified interferences in the intermediate space can be eliminated from the measured signal using, for example, the linear algebraic orthogonal projection. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294387 | MARTINGALE CONTROL OF PRODUCTION FOR OPTIMAL PROFITABILITY OF OIL AND GAS FIELDS - A computer-aided lean management (CALM) controller system recommends actions and manages production in an oil and gas reservoir/field as its properties and conditions change with time. The reservoir/field is characterized and represented as an electronic-field (“e-field”). A plurality of system applications describe dynamic and static e-field properties and conditions. The application workflows are integrated and combined in a feedback loop between actions taken in the field and metrics that score the success or failure of those actions. A controller/optimizer operates on the combination of the application workflows to compute production strategies and actions. The controller/optimizer is configured to generate a best action sequence for production, which is economically “always-in-the-money.” | 2008-11-27 |
20080294388 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINING PART INTERFACES - A system, method, and computer program for defining part interfaces, comprising selecting a part; accessing a rule view corresponding to said part; and setting a rule to a reference use; whereby said rule limits said part to said reference use for a plurality of other parts, and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294389 | COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN APPARATUS - A computer-aided design apparatus generates a tree structure of coordinate systems defining the topology of a three-dimensional object to be fabricated. The coordinate systems are positioned and orientated in accordance with mathematical functions. The mathematical function positioning child coordinate systems has the identity of the parent coordinate systems as a variable so that the positions of the child coordinate systems relative to their parent coordinate systems vary in accordance with the identity of the parent coordinate systems. Data defining the coordinate systems and connections therebetween is stored in a graph. Bases having a defined relationship are identified and three-dimensional content objects are added thereto. The content objects are added using the same mathematical function to generate a three-dimensional content object in each of a plurality of coordinate systems. The mathematical function for generating the content objects has the identity of the coordinate systems as a variable thereof to generate the content object in each coordinate system with a different shape. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294390 | COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN APPARATUS - A computer-aided design apparatus generates a tree structure of coordinate systems defining the topology of a three-dimensional object to be fabricated. The coordinate systems are positioned and orientated in accordance with mathematical functions. The mathematical function positioning child coordinate systems has the identity of the parent coordinate systems as a variable so that the positions of the child coordinate systems relative to their parent coordinate systems vary in accordance with the identity of the parent coordinate systems. Data defining the coordinate systems and connections therebetween is stored in a graph. Bases having a defined relationship are identified and three-dimensional content objects are added thereto. The content objects are added using the same mathematical function to generate a three-dimensional content object in each of a plurality of coordinate systems. The mathematical function for generating the content objects has the identity of the coordinate systems as a variable thereof to generate the content object in each coordinate system with a different shape. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294391 | COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN APPARATUS - A computer-aided design apparatus generates a tree structure of coordinate systems defining the topology of a three-dimensional object to be fabricated. The coordinate systems are positioned and orientated in accordance with mathematical functions. The mathematical function positioning child coordinate systems has the identity of the parent coordinate systems as a variable so that the positions of the child coordinate systems relative to their parent coordinate systems vary in accordance with the identity of the parent coordinate systems. Data defining the coordinate systems and connections therebetween is stored in a graph. Bases having a defined relationship are identified and three-dimensional content objects are added thereto. The content objects are added using the same mathematical function to generate a three-dimensional content object in each of a plurality of coordinate systems. The mathematical function for generating the content objects has the identity of the coordinate systems as a variable thereof to generate the content object in each coordinate system with a different shape. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294392 | COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN APPARATUS - A computer-aided design apparatus generates a tree structure of coordinate systems defining the topology of a three-dimensional object to be fabricated. The coordinate systems are positioned and orientated in accordance with mathematical functions. The mathematical function positioning child coordinate systems has the identity of the parent coordinate systems as a variable so that the positions of the child coordinate systems relative to their parent coordinate systems vary in accordance with the identity of the parent coordinate systems. Data defining the coordinate systems and connections therebetween is stored in a graph. Bases having a defined relationship are identified and three-dimensional content objects are added thereto. The content objects are added using the same mathematical function to generate a three-dimensional content object in each of a plurality of coordinate systems. The mathematical function for generating the content objects has the identity of the coordinate systems as a variable thereof to generate the content object in each coordinate system with a different shape. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294393 | Near Surface Layer Modeling - A method for generating a three dimensional (3D) model of a near surface layer. In one implementation, the method may include generating a one dimensional (1D) geologic model of the near surface layer, converting the 1D geologic model to a two dimensional (2D) geologic model of the near surface layer, converting the 2D geologic model to a 3D geologic model of the near surface layer, and converting the 3D geologic model to a 3D elastic geologic model of the near surface layer. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294394 | System and Method for Detecting Generalized Space-Time Clusters - A system for detecting clusters in space and time using input data on occurrences of a phenomenon and characteristics at a plurality of locations and times comprises an expectation generation module determining expected occurrences of a phenomena, and an occurrence modeling module determining actual occurrences of the phenomena. The system further comprises a search module searching the expected occurrences and the actual occurrences for a plurality of candidate solutions, wherein each solution is represented as a set of points in the three-dimensional space, and wherein each point corresponds to a location at a time. The system comprises a convex container module determining at least one solution corresponding to a selected convex container shape from the plurality of candidate solutions, and a solution evaluation module determining a strength metric for each solution determined by the convex container module, the search module selecting a dominant cluster in the input data. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294395 | Asynchronous Stochastic Learning Curve Effects in a Large Scale Production System - Systems and methods for arithmetic modeling of large scale engineer-to-order production systems using asynchronous stochastic learning curve are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for simulating a production system configured to produce a product includes, for a plurality of components, assigning learning curve parameters for an asynchronous stochastic learning curve associated with each component. Master schedule data for manufacturing a plurality of the product are received, and production of the plurality of components a plurality of cycles corresponding to the plurality of the product is simulated. The results of the simulated productions are output for analysis. In a further aspect, the product is an aircraft, and the components are aircraft components. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING DESIGN REQUIREMENTS - A system, method, and computer program for design validation, comprising defining a plurality of requirements; extracting said plurality of requirements; comparing a design against said plurality of requirements; and reporting a result of said comparison, and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294397 | ANALYTICAL METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ANALYZING APPARATUS - An element dividing portion divides a to-be-analyzed object composed of a plurality of members into a plurality of finite elements. An analytical condition setting portion generates an analytical model of to-be-analyzed object by relating a physical property value of each member separately to individual finite elements. A stress field computing portion performs a simulation of applying a physical action to the analytical model and analyzes a resultant effect exerted on each finite element. A safety factor calculating portion makes a comparison between the effect exerted on each finite element and a reference value predetermined for each member to calculate a safety factor for each finite element. A display control portion effects control of display portion such that finite element whose safety factor is higher than a threshold value is represented transparently and the safety factor for each finite element is indicated with the analytical model. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294398 | Method and apparatus for the automated construction of models of activities from textual descriptions of the activities - A method of automatically constructing a model of an activity from an unsupervised examination of a plurality of textual documents describing the activity is comprised of: extracting prototypical steps from the plurality of textual documents; sequencing the extracted steps; aligning the sequenced steps; and constructing the model based on the aligned steps. The model may take the form of a step vs. position matrix which identifies the prototypical steps that make up the activity and provides the probability of each step occupying each position within the activity. The model thus constitutes common sense knowledge that encodes the stereotypical steps of an activity and the stereotypical sequencing of the steps. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294399 | HUMAN BEHAVIORAL MODELING AND SIMULATION FRAMEWORK - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for simulating human behavior. Source code, written in a language for predicting human behavior, is located on a storage system in a network data processing system. An interpreter executing on hardware has a language interpreter and a communications module. The language interpreter executes a simulation with the source code using artificial intelligence to generate a new definition and interpreted source code. A graphical user interface processor receives the interpreted source code from the language interpreter and generates device dependent output. Devices display the device dependent output, receive user input, and send received user input to the graphical user interface processor. The communications module receives the received user input from the graphical user interface processor and the new definition from the language interpreter and modifies the source code to form modified source code that is executed by the language interpreter. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294400 | Electronic system with simulated sense perception and method of providing simulated sense perception - A method of providing sense perception to an electronic system includes capturing a plurality of data sets, each data set representing an observation of a scene from a different perspective, comparing the data sets to one another to identify invariants in the data sets, comparing the invariants of the data sets to identify objects including the invariants, and outputting data indicative of the identified objects and invariants. The different perspectives can be temporal (e.g., time sequenced), positional (e.g., movement of sensors), or can exhibit some other difference in perspective. The data sets can include data indicative of optical images, sound, and/or any other type of sensory data. In that example, the invariants are data representations of color patches in an optical image. In a particular method, the data sets include data indicative of at least three different types of sense perceptions including, but not limited to, acoustical, optical, and pressure. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294401 | Active Shape Model for Vehicle Modeling and Re-Identification - A method for modeling a vehicle, includes: receiving an image that includes a vehicle; and constructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of the vehicle, wherein the 3D model is constructed by: (a) taking a predetermined set of base shapes that are extracted from a subset of vehicles; (b) multiplying each of the base shapes by a parameter; (c) adding the resultant of each multiplication to form a vector that represents the vehicle's shape; (d) fitting the vector to the vehicle in the image; and (e) repeating steps (a)-(d) by modifying the parameters until a difference between a fit vector and the vehicle in the image is minimized. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294402 | Method for analyzing fluid flow within a three-dimensional object - A flow analysis system is provided comprising a fully automatic and dynamic system for performing flow analysis on solid models. The system combines aspects of the mid-plane generation and prismatic filling systems in a way that is transparent to the user. The generation of a mid-plane mesh and the flow analysis of the mesh proceed in parallel. The analysis can be halted at any stage, at which point the user can visualize the results of the partial analysis. The data on which the analysis is being performed, the mid-plane mesh, is totally invisible to the user. This system also uses prismatic solid mesh generation to give the user the ability to view cross sections of the models after the analysis stage. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294403 | Systems and Methods for Reconstructing Gene Networks in Segregating Populations - The reconstruction of genetic networks in mammalian systems is one of the primary goals in biological research, especially as such reconstructions relate to elucidating not only common, polygenic human disease, but living systems more generally. The present invention provides novel gene network reconstruction algorithms that utilize naturally occurring genetic variations as a source of perturbations to elucidate the networks. The algorithms incorporate relative transcript abundance and genotypic data from segregating populations by employing a generalized scoring function of maximum likelihood commonly used in Bayesian network reconstruction problems. The utility of these novel algorithms can be demonstrated via application to gene expression data from a segregating mouse population. The network derived from such data using the novel network reconstruction algorithm is able to capture causal associations between genes that result in increased predictive power, compared to more classically reconstructed networks derived from the same data. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294404 | Computer Aided Ligand-Based and Receptor-Based Drug Design Utilizing Molecular Shape and Electrostatic Complementarity - Methods related to the generation of shape signatures representing molecular shape, and using shape signatures in both ligand-based and receptor-based molecular design. Ray-tracing is used to explore the volume interior to a ligand, or the space exterior to a receptor site. Shape signatures are then probability distributions derived from the ray-traces. Shape signatures provide condensed descriptors of shape properties readily compared to each other to test for shape similarity or complementarity. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294405 | Tooth modeling - The present disclosure includes dental appliances, devices, and methods of making and using such appliances. In one embodiment, a method for tooth modeling includes receiving a patient information file for a treatment plan patient and analyzing the patient information file to determine whether the patient is a non-adult patient. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294406 | CONTEXT-BASED COMPLETION FOR LIFE SCIENCE APPLICATIONS - A system is provided that can include storage logic to store a data structure that includes an identifier. The storage logic may also store an object associated with the identifier, where the identifier may include a value, unit information, or a context. The storage logic may further store a result. The system may include processing logic to process an expression to determine whether the identifier is compatible with the expression, the determining performed using the value, the unit information, or the context. The processing logic may insert the identifier into the expression when the identifier is compatible with the expression, the inserting based on a user action. The processing logic may execute the expression on behalf of a life sciences model, may generate the result based on the executing, and may provide the result to the storage logic. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294407 | Method and Apparatus for Computational Modeling of Malignant Transformation in Tissue - A computational system and method for simulating biological tissue includes a computer-modeled 3-dimensional space in which computer-modeled cells are located. The cells may be either healthy or cancerous. As a simulation progresses, the cells may execute a variety of protocols. These include life protocols, such as replication, repair, and apoptosis. They also include signaling protocols, such as a request from a cell to entice defective neighboring cells to die, and an announcement that a cell itself is about to die. The announcement, when received by neighboring cells, tends to entice them also to die. Since defective cells tend to cluster together, the combination of the two signals within a tumor has a strong effect on suppressing the tumor. The simulation tracks the progression of cancerous tumors as well as the effectiveness of various treatments. By simulating the behavior of cancerous tissues, the system and method disclosed herein provide a model for understanding cancer, from which potential treatments may be conceived. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294408 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING A CONCEPTUAL MODEL TO FACILITATE GENERATING A BUSINESS-ALIGNED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION - A method and system for developing a conceptual model to facilitate generating a business-aligned information technology (IT) solution. Requirements of the IT solution are defined. A conceptual model is developed by business and IT stakeholders. The conceptual model represents an IT solution design and includes systems, conceptual components and operational concepts. The conceptual components represent hardware components and software components of the IT solution. The operational concepts indicate interactions among the conceptual components that are needed to perform business functions. A computing system generates documentation of the conceptual model. The documentation is available and accessible to the business and IT stakeholders and includes documentation of the operational concepts. The architecture and design of the IT solution is developed along with related documentation. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294409 | DESIGN STRUCTURE FOR PERFORMING CACHELINE POLLING UTILIZING A STORE AND RESERVE INSTRUCTION - A design structure for performing cacheline polling utilizing a store and reserve instruction are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a first process initially requests an action to be performed by a second process. A reservation is set at a cacheable memory location via a store operation. The first process reads the cacheable memory location via a load operation to determine whether or not the requested action has been completed by the second process. The load operation of the first process is stalled until the reservation on the cacheable memory location is lost. After the requested action has been completed, the reservation in the cacheable memory location is reset by the second process. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294410 | METHOD OF SEPARATING THE PROCESS VARIATION IN THRESHOLD VOLTAGE AND EFFECTIVE CHANNEL LENGTH BY ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS - A IC wafer is fabricated using a process of interest to have a plurality of FET devices with different channel lengths (Leff) form a plurality of channel length groups. The threshold voltage (VT) is measured of a statistical sample of the FET devices in each channel length group at two different drain-to-source voltage (VDS). The mean of VT is calculated for each channel length and each VDS. A slope coefficient λ relating VT to Leff is calculated at each VDS. The total variance of VT is calculated at each VDS. Two equations at each VDS, each relating the total variance of VT to the variance of VT with respect to dopant levels and the square of the slope coefficient λ times the variance of Leff, are solved simultaneously to obtain the variance of VT with respect to dopant levels and the variance of Leff. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294411 | Systems and Methods for Logic Verification - Methods and systems for simulating logic may translate logic design into executable code for a multi-processor based parallel logic simulation device. A system may implement one or more parallel execution methods, which may include IPMD, MPMD, and/or DDMT. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294412 | DESIGN STRUCTURE FOR PERFORMING CACHELINE POLLING UTILIZING STORE WITH RESERVE AND LOAD WHEN RESERVATION LOST INSTRUCTIONS - A design structure for performing cacheline polling utilizing store and reserve and load when reservation lost instructions is disclosed. In one embodiment a method is provided which comprises storing a buffer flag busy indicator data value within a first cacheable memory location and setting a load/store operation reservation on said first cacheable memory location via a store and reserve instruction. In the described embodiment, a data value stored within the first cacheable memory location is accessed via a conditional load instruction in response to a determination that the load/store operation reservation on the first cacheable memory location has been reset. Conversely, execution of the conditional load instruction is stalled in response to a determination that the load/store operation reservation on the first cacheable memory location has not been reset. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294413 | PROGRAM PRODUCT SUPPORTING PHASE EVENTS IN A SIMULATION MODEL OF A DIGITAL SYSTEM - According to a method of simulation processing, an instrumented simulation executable model of a design is built by compiling one or more hardware description language (HDL) files specifying one or more design entities within the design and one or more instrumentation entities and instantiating instances of the one or more instrumentation entities within instances of the one or more design entities. Operation of the design is then simulated utilizing the instrumented simulation executable model. Simulating operation includes each of multiple instantiations of the one or more instrumentation entities generating a respective external phase signal representing an occurrence of a particular phase of operation and instrumentation combining logic generating from external phase signals of the multiple instantiations of the one or more instrumentation entities an aggregate phase signal representing an occurrence of the particular phase. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294414 | SYSTEM DC ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY - A computer program product is provided for power delivery analysis and design for a hierarchical system. The product includes a storage medium, readable by a processing circuit, for storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for facilitating a method. The method includes building a model corresponding to each element of the hierarchical system, and compiling a repository that contains models corresponding to each element, where the repository includes a net list, a domain list, a component list, a pin list, and a layer list. The method also includes performing optimized gridding for each element, the net list, the domain list, the component list, the pin list, and the layer list; assembling a system model from the models contained in the repository; flattening the system model by converting the system model to a flattened system model that consists entirely of resistors; and running a simulation on the flattened system model. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294415 | TROUBLESHOOTING TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR IN "COMBINATIONAL" CIRCUITS - A method and computer product is provided to generate a signal model for use in analyzing a model system including imposing an explicit time assumption for each time instant of the system model. The time assumptions are defined so that any two assumptions contradict each other, thereby separating all inferences into the respective times. A non-monotonic rule is applied to instantiate component models of the model system. Results are defined as not depending on the existence of a previous time instant and, a simplified signal model is generated, wherein the signal model represents the evolution of a value in the model system over time. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294416 | FACILITATING SIMULATION OF A MODEL WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT - Simulation of models within a distributed environment is facilitated. A model is partitioned based on clock domains, and communication between partitions on different processors is performed on synchronous clock boundaries. Further, data is exchanged across the network on latch boundaries. Thus, management aspects of the simulation, such as management associated with the global simulation time, are simplified. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294417 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING STRATEGIES CREATED BY A CLAN BASED STRATEGY SHARING TOOL - A method for use with a computer simulation includes providing an ability to run a simulation in which a plurality of client devices communicate over a network to interact with the simulation, providing an ability to generate a first user interface on each of the plurality of client devices for allowing users associated with the client devices to interact with the simulation, providing an ability to allow users associated with a subset of the plurality of client devices to interact with information that includes a representation of at least a portion of an environment of the simulation without allowing access thereto by the other client devices, and providing an ability for the simulation to generate an event in response to interactions with the information. A system for use in running a computer simulation and a storage medium storing a computer program executable by a processor based system are also disclosed. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294418 | Method and a System Relating to Network Management - The present invention relates to a method for network management comprising configuration of control protocols between network elements in a network represented through a current, static, network element object model comprising a number of managed objects with attributes and instances and representing resources. It comprises the steps of: transforming the current network element object model to a machine readable and executable formal network element object model; identifying configuration tasks needed for the configuration of the relevant control protocols; modelling a formal configuration task model using information about the configuration tasks and the formal network element object model; building a formal configuration workflow model using the formal network element object model and the formal configuration task model, said formal configuration workflow model defining the relationships between different configuration tasks required for performing or completing a number of given actions or to achieve a number of given goals. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294419 | Apparatus and method for simulating multi-dimensional non-linear multivariable processes - A process simulator is provided for simulating the behavior of multi-dimensional non-linear multivariable processes. A multi-dimensional non-linear multivariable model of a process can be generated, such as by using smaller building blocks. One or more inputs are provided to the model, a behavior of the process is simulated in real-time using the model, and one or more outputs of the model are provided. The model could represent a two-dimensional non-linear multivariable model, and the one or more inputs to the model and/or the one or more outputs of the model could be array-based. The process simulator could be formed from multiple components, such as a regulatory loop simulator object, a process model object, a disturbance generator object, and a scanner simulator object. The arrangement of the objects can be flexible and configurable, such as by designing the objects in an object-oriented manner utilizing a sink/source architecture. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODEL DRIVEN TRANSFORMATION FILTERING - A method and system for model-driven transformation are provided. The method and system in one aspect allows selecting of one or more model elements in a model. Transformation definitions are evaluated to identify one or more transformations that may be applicable to the selected one or more model elements. In one aspect, transformations may be identified that are applicable in an entire model, those that take the selected one or more model elements as input parameters, those that affect one or more model element, or any combination thereof. In one aspect, a list of applicable transformations is presented. In another aspect, the method and system automatically apply the one or more applicable transformations to the model. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294421 | Hard Disk Drive Adapter For Emulating Hard Disk Drive Interface - Adapter for emulating hard disk drive interface is designed for providing IDE interface by means of emulation without having to install any additional drivers for the motherboard which lacks IDE interface. The controller of the adapter is able to provide reply information on the manufacturer name, serial number of the equipment, and the device type of the hard disk device to which it is electrically connected, by responding to the BIOS query though the bus interface, thus emulating the control components of the hard disk drive as if they were appeared to be configured on the motherboard. Therefore, the number of hard disk interface types as compared to that originally supported by the motherboard is expanded. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294422 | Methods, Computer Program Product, and Computer System for Language-Enhanced Programming Tools - Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural language of the computer program is determined from the programmer, or through analysis, and the second target natural language desired by the programmer is selected. Textual constructs may be parsed, with reference to stored coding conventions to determine meaningful lexical tokens. Such tokens are translated with a translation engine, and displayed to the programmer, desirably using a graphical user interface feature of an integrated development environment (IDE) for computer programming in a particular programming language. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294423 | Informing troubleshooting sessions with device data - A method for troubleshooting a problem with a device includes acquiring device data for the device, receiving a user's query concerning a device in a natural language, presenting possible refinements to at least a portion of the user's query for defining a problem statement, presenting candidate solutions that are associated with the defined problem statement in a knowledge base, at least one of the presentation of possible refinements and the presentation of candidate solutions being informed by device data that is linked through a diagnostic model of the device to at least one of the problem statements and candidate solutions. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294424 | INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information display system has an information display unit which displays information in a large screen display device in a predetermined standard language; a user information input unit which inputs user information including information of a language desired by a user; and a language switch display unit which, when the user desired language input by the user information input unit is different from the standard language, switches the standard language of the screen display device to and displays the desired language of the user. The information display unit displays guide information, which comprises a public area common to all users and a plurality of individual areas dependent on respective users, in the standard language. When the input user desired language is different from the standard language, the language switch display unit displays the public area by time division or space division by the standard language and the user desired language and switches the individual area from the standard language to and displays in the user desired language. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294425 | Method and apparatus for performing semantic update and replace operations - A method of changing semantic information comprises changing a first bi-directional coupling between a surface region in a document and a first semantic object to a second bi-directional coupling between the surface region and a second semantic object. More particularly, the method may be comprised of identifying an occurrence of a surface region in a document, the surface region having a first link for coupling the surface region to a first semantic object, and the first semantic object having a first association for coupling the first semantic object with the surface region. The first link is replaced with a second link for coupling the surface region to a second semantic object. The first association is changed to a second association for coupling the second semantic object with the surface region. Another method for changing semantic information comprising selecting a semantic object stored in a data repository and changing the selected semantic object. A scope is then selected, either manually or automatically. A set of semantically anchored expressions associated with the semantic object is identified in response to the scope. A determination is made if the semantically anchored expressions are consistent with the changed semantic object and, if not, the semantically anchored expressions are updated so as to be consistent with the changed semantic object. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294426 | Method and apparatus for anchoring expressions based on an ontological model of semantic information - A method and apparatus for the recording and maintenance of semantic elements in electronically-held information objects provide for grounding semantic objects in an ontology, such that inheritance and other relations between concepts are preserved in persistent storage. The disclosed method and apparatus provide semantic document authors with a means to anchor concept references to specific, persistent, semantic objects, thereby providing the system with access to all properties of the underlying data model of the semantic objects being referenced, while also specifying the type and scope of their relations, as well as behavioral aspects of the visual and editing environment. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294427 | Method and apparatus for performing a semantically informed merge operation - A method and apparatus for performing an informed semantic merge operation comprises selecting a source region in a document and a target region in the same or a different document. A bi-directionally coupled surface region is identified in the source region and a bi-directionally coupled surface region is identified in the target region. A first semantic object coupled to the surface region in the source region is identified and a second semantic object coupled to the surface region in the target region is identified. The subcomponents of the first semantic object are combined with the subcomponents of the second semantic object by merging. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294428 | Packet loss concealment - A method for using a waveform segment in place of a missing portion of an audio waveform generated in response to a packet stream encoding portions of the audio waveform, the method comprising: phase matching a trailing portion of the waveform segment with a trailing portion of the audio waveform that follows the missing portion; and adding the phase matched waveform segment to the audio waveform. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294429 | Adaptive tilt compensation for synthesized speech - There is provided a method of using an adaptive tilt compensation by a speech decoder. The method comprises receiving a bit stream including a plurality of parameters representative of a speech signal; identifying an adaptive code vector and a fixed code vector using the plurality of parameters; scaling the adaptive code vector and the fixed code vector to generate a scaled adaptive code vector and a scaled fixed code vector; summing the scaled adaptive code vector and the scaled fixed code vector to generate a synthesized output; calculating a first reflection coefficient based on the plurality of parameters representative of the speech signal; multiplying the first reflection coefficient by a factor to generate a tilt factor; and applying the tilt factor to the synthesized output based on an encoding bit rate. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294430 | Noise reduction device, program and method - A noise reduction device is configured by use of: means for calculating a predetermined constant, and a predetermined reference signal Rω(T) in the frequency domain, respectively by use of adaptive coefficients Wω(m), and for thereby obtaining estimated values Nω and Qω(T) respectively of stationary noise components, and non-stationary noise components corresponding to the reference signal, which are included in a predetermined observed signal Xω(T) in the frequency domain; means and for applying a noise reduction process to the observed signal on the basis of each of the estimated values, and for updating each of the adaptive coefficients on the basis of a result of the process; and an adaptive learning means and for repeating the obtaining of the estimated values and the updating of the adaptive coefficients, and for thereby learning each of the adaptive coefficients. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294431 | Displaying text of speech in synchronization with the speech - Displays a character string representing content of speech in synchronization with reproduction of the speech. An apparatus includes: a unit for obtaining scenario data representing the speech; a unit for dividing textual data resulting from recognition of the speech to generate pieces of recognition pieces of recognition data; a unit for detecting in the scenario data a character matching each character contained in each piece of recognition data for which no matching character string has been detected to detect in the scenario data a character string that matches the piece of recognition data; and a unit for setting the display timing of displaying each of character strings contained in the scenario data to the timing at which speech recognized as the piece of recognition data that matches the character string is reproduced. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294432 | Signal enhancement and speech recognition - Provides speech enhancement techniques which are effective even for extemporaneous noise without a noise interval and unknown extemporaneous noise. An example of a signal enhancement device includes: spectral subtraction means for subtracting a given reference signal from an input signal containing a target signal and a noise signal by spectral subtraction; an adaptive filter applied to the reference signal; and coefficient control means for controlling a filter coefficient of the adaptive filter in order to reduce components of the noise signal in the input signal. In the signal enhancement device, a database of a signal model concerning the target signal expressing a given feature by means of a given statistical model is provided, and the filter coefficient is controlled based on the likelihood of the signal model with respect to an output signal from the spectral subtraction means. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294433 | Automatic Text-Speech Mapping Tool - A text-speech mapping method. Silence segments for incoming speech data are obtained. Incoming transcript data is preprocessed. The incoming transcript data comprises a written document of the speech data. Possible candidate sentence endpoints based on the silence segments are found. A best match sentence endpoint is selected based on a forced alignment score. The next sentence is set to begin immediately after the current sentence endpoint, and the process of finding candidate sentence endpoints, selecting the best match sentence endpoint, and setting the next sentence is repeated until all sentences for the incoming speech data are mapped. The process is repeated for each mapped sentence to provide word level mapping. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294434 | Live Media Captioning Subscription Framework for Mobile Devices - A subscription-based system provides transcribed audio information to one or more mobile devices. Some techniques feature a system for providing subscription services for currently-generated (e.g., not stored) information (e.g., caption information, transcribed audio) for one or more mobile devices for a live/current audio event. There can be a communication network for communicating to the one or more mobile devices, a transcriber configured for transcribing the event to generate information (e.g., caption information, transcribed audio). Caption data includes transcribed data and control code data. The system includes a subscription gateway configured for live/current transfer of the transcribed data to the one or more mobile devices. The subscription gateway is configured to provide access for the transcribed data to the one or more mobile devices. User preferences for subscribers can be set and/or updated by mobile device users and/or GPS-capable mobile devices to receive feeds for the live/current audio event. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294435 | System and Method for Remote Speech Recognition - A system and method for remote speech recognition includes one or more customer premise equipment, a speech engine, and a communication engine. The customer premise equipment interfaces with a host from which the customer premise equipment is remotely located. The speech engine, remotely located from the host, recognizes a plurality of speech spoken by a user of the customer premise equipment and translates the speech into the language of the host. The speech engine further converts the recognized speech into one or more text data packets where the text data packets include the recognized speech as data instead of voice. The communication engine encrypts the text data packets and transmits the text data packets to the host. Transmitting data instead of voice to the host reduces the computational demands on the host. Additionally, the communication engine receives a plurality of information from the host. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294436 | SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR IDENTIFYING ADVERTISEMENTS AND/OR WEB PAGES - A device may identify terms in a speech signal using speech recognition. The device may further retain one or more of the identified terms by comparing them to a set of words and send the retained terms and information associated with the retained terms to a remote device. The device may also receive messages that are related to the retained terms and to the information associated with the retained terms from the remote device. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294437 | LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING DEVICE - A language understanding device includes: a language understanding model storing unit configured to store word transition data including pre-transition states, input words, predefined outputs corresponding to the input words, word weight information, and post-transition states, and concept weighting data including concepts obtained from language understanding results for at least one word, and concept weight information corresponding to the concepts; a finite state transducer processing unit configured to output understanding result candidates including the predefined outputs, to accumulate word weights so as to obtain a cumulative word weight, and to sequentially perform state transition operations; a concept weighting processing unit configured to accumulate concept weights so as to obtain a cumulative concept weight; and an understanding result determination unit configured to determine an understanding result from the understanding result candidates by referring to the cumulative word weight and the cumulative concept weight. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294438 | Apparatus for the processing of sales - The invention relates to an apparatus for the processing of sales of articles of a product assortment to a customer, in particular to store scales, having a microphone device for listening to a conversation between a customer and a salesperson for the conversion of connected spoken words of the conversation into an electrical speech signal, having a speech recognition device for the generation of a speech recognition result representing the words from the electrical speech signal having a comparator for the comparison of the speech recognition result with keywords stored in a memory device of the apparatus for keyword recognition in the speech recognition result, with at least some of the stored keywords being product names which define a group of keywords, and having a control device which, on the detection of a keyword belonging to the group and/or of a permitted combination of keywords, which includes a keyword belonging to the group, is adapted to output a piece of information associated with the detected keyword or with the detected permitted combination and available via a data source or to output an offer for the output of the information, in particular in the form of a section menu, by means of an output device of the apparatus. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294439 | Speech screening - This invention relates to screening of spoken audio data so as to detect threat words or phrases. The method is particularly useful for protecting children or vulnerable adults from unsuitable content and/or suspicious or threatening contact with others via a communication medium. The method is applicable to screening speech transmitted over a computer network such as the internet and provides screening of access to stored content, e.g. audio or multimedia data files, as well as real time speech such as live broadcasts or communication via voice over IP or similar communication protocols. The method allows an administrator, e.g. a parent, to identify groups of threat words or phrases to be monitored, to set user access levels and to determine appropriate responses when threat words or phrases are detected. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294440 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES OF NON-NATIVE SPEAKERSL - The present disclosure presents a useful metric for assessing the relative difficulty which non-native speakers face in pronouncing a given utterance and a method and systems for using such a metric in the evaluation and assessment of the utterances of non-native speakers. In an embodiment, the metric may be based on both known sources of difficulty for language learners and a corpus-based measure of cross-language sound differences. The method may be applied to speakers who primarily speak a first language speaking utterances in any non-native second language. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294441 | Speech Recognition System with Huge Vocabulary - The invention deals with speech recognition, such as a system for recognizing words in continuous speech. A speech recognition system is disclosed which is capable of recognizing a huge number of words, and in principle even an unlimited number of words. The speech recognition system comprises a word recognizer for deriving a best path through a word graph, and wherein words are assigned to the speech based on the best path. The word score being obtained from applying a phonemic language model to each word of the word graph. Moreover, the invention deals with an apparatus and a method for identifying words from a sound block and to computer readable code for implementing the method. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294442 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method includes obtaining digital content comprising text content; obtaining at least one speech parameter associated with the digital content; and using the speech parameters as an input, generating a speech output corresponding to at least part of the text content. Corresponding apparatuses, system and computer program products are also presented. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294443 | APPLICATION OF EMOTION-BASED INTONATION AND PROSODY TO SPEECH IN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS - Abstract of the Disclosure A text-to-speech system that includes an arrangement for accepting text input, an arrangement for providing synthetic speech output, and an arrangement for imparting emotion-based features to synthetic speech output. The arrangement for imparting emotion-based features includes an arrangement for accepting instruction for imparting at least one emotion-based paradigm to synthetic speech output, as well as an arrangement for applying at least one emotion-based paradigm to synthetic speech output. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294444 | Method and Apparatus for Decoding an Audio Signal - Method and apparatus for processing audio signals are provided. The method for decoding an audio signal includes extracting a downmix signal and spatial information from a received audio signal and generating a pseudo-surround signal using the downmix signal and the spatial information. The apparatus for decoding an audio signal includes a demultiplexing part extracting a downmix signal and spatial information from a received audio signal and a pseudo-surround decoding part generating a pseudo-surround signal from the downmix signal, using the spatial information. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294445 | METHOD AND APAPRATUS FOR SINUSOIDAL AUDIO CODING - Provided are a method and apparatus for sinusoidal audio coding, which employs a tracking method for further effective coding of sinusoids extracted in the process of a sinusoidal analysis of parametric coding. The sinusoidal audio coding method includes: extracting sinusoids of a current frame by performing a sinusoidal analysis on an input audio signal; with respect to each of the extracted sinusoids, setting a mode selected from a birth mode in which a sinusoid is newly generated irrespective of sinusoids of a previous frame, a continuation mode in which the sinusoid is only one sinusoid continued from one of the sinusoids of the previous frame, and a branch mode in which the sinusoid is one of a plurality of sinusoids continued from one of the sinusoids of the previous frame; and coding the extracted sinusoids according to the selected mode. Accordingly, a plurality of sinusoids that can be continued from one previous track component are set to the continuation mode or the branch mode. Therefore, the number of bits of coded data is significantly reduced, compared with the case of the birth mode. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294446 | Layer based scalable multimedia datastream compression - Source signals, such as audio and/or video data, are encoded into multiple, consecutive frequency bands. These bands are referred to as coding layers. Rather than performing complex bit-slice operations, a disclosed technique enables an agile and simplified response to transmission channel throughput variations. Specifically, if it becomes necessary to restrict the rate of data transmission to avoid receiver buffer underflow resulting from transmission channel degradation, layers from the transmitted signal are omitted, beginning with the highest frequency bands. Efficient and agile bit rate scalability during data streaming through wired or wireless networks and during local playback is thus enabled. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294447 | Issue or transaction tracking by using presence information and instant messaging - A presentity is used to represent and report states of an issue or a transaction. The issue or the transaction is an intangible (an incorporeal, non-physical) entity. The presentity for the issue or the transaction is created, a state of the issue or the transaction received from a handler of the issue or the transaction is registered in the presentity, and the registered state is reported to watchers of the presentity. Preferably, a handler registers with the presentity as a proxy for the issue or the transaction, and messages sent to the presentity are forwarded to the handler who is the registered proxy. If the issue or the transaction comprises a plurality of entities, preferably a separate presentity for each one of the entities, as well as for the issue or the transaction as a whole, is created and used. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294448 | Methods and systems associated with telephone directory advertisements - A telephone directory advertisement is created for an advertiser by an artist during a Web teleconference session based on an interaction via the Web teleconference session between the artist, the advertiser, and a sales representative. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294449 | BUSINESS OBJECT DOCUMENT MAPPER - In accordance with an embodiment, an architecture for directly interfacing Business Object Documents (BODs) may include a BOD mapper which employs the BOD for input and output. A model object definable by class is created corresponding to the data contained in the BOD. System logic for the local domain is provided with communication with the BOD mapper through a BOD mapper application programming interface. The logic operates on the model object and a mapping configuration is provided for relating elements of the BOD to the model object. An addressing element communicates with the BOD mapper to define the mapping configuration for the BODs operated on by the BOD Mapper for input/output and mapping for a map call and parsing for a list call is accomplished for the contents from the BOD to the model object as defined by the BOD mapping configuration. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294450 | MARKETING SUPPORT PROCESSING METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A marketing support executed by a computer upon receipt of a map display request from a shop terminal, specifies a map element corresponding to a shop Based on identification information for the specified map element, a blog management database storing blog user identification information for each blog and identification information of a map element registered in a map in the blog is referred and/or a map element database storing information on a shop corresponding to the map element and identification information of a registerer blog including the map element is referred. For example, registered address information of a blog user of each registerer blog is extracted from a user master database storing the registered address information of the blog user, and shop-aimed map data having arranged therein a mark indicating each of the registerer blogs in accordance with the extracted registered address information is generated. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294451 | INTERNET CONNECTION SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND SYSTEM - An internet connection service providing method and internet connection service system for carrying out the method are provided. The method comprises presetting a service class for a user, among a plurality of service classes, where the service class is selected by the user, authenticating the user according to the preset service class when the user logs-in to a network, recognizing the preset service class for the user, and providing a service corresponding to the recognized service class. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294452 | Managing Supply of a Utility to a Customer Premises - The invention provides a method of managing supply of a utility to a customer premises. A utility meter and a disconnect switch are installed at the customer premises. A management system remote from the customer premises is interfaced to the utility meter and disconnect switch over a data network. The method includes transmitting a termination instruction over the data network if the utility meter has not received configuration information from the management system; transmitting an initiation instruction over the data network if the utility meter has received an override switch ON command from the management system; transmitting a termination instruction over the data network on detecting tampering with the meter; and transmitting a termination instruction over the data network causing activation of the disconnect switch to terminate supply of the utility if the utility meter has received an override switch OFF command from the management system. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294453 | Network Based Digital Rights Management System - A network-based DRM system manages digital media assets stored in the network. The system provides consumers with access to the digital media from any device connected to an electronic network such as the internet, while enforcing the intended uses by the copyright owners. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294454 | DISPLAY OF CLINICAL INFORMATION - Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for presenting clinical information comprising: a plurality of pages for displaying clinical information; and a plurality of sources for said clinical information, wherein each of said pages is capable of receiving information from at least one of said sources, and each of said pages is capable of dynamically updating the display of said clinical information. In an embodiment, plurality of pages are capable of displaying said clinical information without substantial electrical power. In an embodiment, each of said plurality of pages is flexible. In an embodiment, each of said plurality of pages comprise organic light emitting diodes. In an embodiment, said clinical information comprises linked clinical data corresponding to a patient. In an embodiment, said clinical information comprises unlinked clinical data corresponding to a patient. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294455 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A MULTILINGUAL NETWORK - A method of communicating in a multilingual network comprises receiving a request from a user for a medical data, obtaining the medical data from a server unit, wherein the medical data is stored in a first language, identifying a second language based on a predetermined condition and converting the medical data from the first language to the second language. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294456 | ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS FOR STORING, ORGANIZING, AND ADMINISTRATING PERSONAL MEDICATIONS - A personal medications storage assembly and method of use for storing, organizing and administering medications for a patient. The assembly includes a base having an opening, a storage area, and a plurality of outer surfaces. At least one outer surface of the base includes standardized indicia uniquely identifying the assembly as a personal medications storage assembly. A lid is adapted for closing the opening of the base. A compartment is configured for receiving medication descriptive material associated with the medications placed within the storage area. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294457 | Real-time medical records - According to some embodiments, a system and a method are provided to receive a real-time medical entry from a medical professional where the medical entry comprises one or more medical terms, to automatically compare the one or more medical terms with a plurality of data records, each data record associated with a billing code, and to select a coding term if one of the one or more medical terms matches the plurality of data records. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294458 | Device And Method For The Central Control Of Devices Used During An Operation - To be able to use a generally available database of predetermined apparatus configurations and parameters in medical interventions, a device is disclosed for controlling and/or monitoring at least one apparatus during a medical intervention, said device including a least one control unit for controlling and/or monitoring the at least one apparatus and at least one display unit for displaying data, wherein: access is possible to data specific to the intervention, including at least data on the parameter values to be entered on the at least one apparatus during a predetermined intervention; in addition the parameter values are predetermined at least in part depending on the user, while the parameter values can be called up by a user for display by means of the display unit, and a confirming element is provided, through whose actuation the predetermined parameter values for the at least one apparatus are incorporated. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294459 | Health Care Derivatives as a Result of Real Time Patient Analytics - A computer implemented method that includes receiving a cohort. The cohort comprises first data regarding a set of patients and second data comprising a relationship of the first data to at least one additional datum existing in at least one database. A numerical risk assessment is associated with the cohort. The computer implemented method further includes establishing a monetary value for the cohort, wherein the monetary value is based at least on the numerical risk assessment. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294460 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF TRANSACTION DATA - A method for improving the accuracy of pharmacy transactions. A health care organization's individual health care facilities are linked to a prescription processing center of a publicly-held corporate pharmacy (“PCP”) organization, preferably by means of an electronic communications network. The processing center collects, organizes and correlates patient census data from the health care facilities and transaction data from the pharmacies with existing contract data. The collected and organized data forms a dataset that may be used to determine and allocate the charges. Further, the patient and transaction data may be utilized to generate various reports in an electronic format related to the patients, facilities, and pharmacies. In another embodiment of the present invention, the electronic communications network may be utilized to survey the health care facilities regarding the level of performance and quality of the PCP and associated pharmacies. This information may be organized into reports and then forwarded to appropriate administrative and management personnel at the health care facility and the PCP. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294461 | Checking and Verifying Blood Screening Data - A computer-implemented method verifies data from an electronic blood screen panel. Blood screening data is extracted from the electronic blood screen panel into a first data summary. The first data summary includes a lot number and expiration date, a donor number, and a number of negative reactions in each row and column in the panel. A user is queried to manually enter a second data summary. The second data summary includes the lot number and expiration date, the donor number, and the number of negative reactions in each row and column in the panel. The first and second data summaries are compared. A first security code is generated according to an algorithm based on current blood screening data incorporated into the first data summary. The first security code is appended to the electronic blood screen panel when the first and second data summaries match. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294462 | System, Method, And Apparatus Of Facilitating Web-Based Interactions Between An Elderly And Caregivers - Systems, methods and apparatuses of facilitating web-based interactions between an elderly and caregivers are described in this application. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of providing care through facilitating interactions between a set of service subscribers including an elderly and one or more caregivers, via an online networking platform. One embodiment can include, receiving data provided by one or more remote users, the data to be provided to a local user based on a time frame indicated by a request generated by the one or more remote users, providing the data to the local user via a network connection, the data to be displayed on a display screen to be provided to the local user, receiving data provided by the local user to be transmitted to the one or more remote users, and/or transmitting the data provided by the local user to the one or more remote users via the network connection, upon receiving a request generated by the local user, the one or more remote users being a caregiver and wherein the local user being the elderly | 2008-11-27 |
20080294463 | SYSTEM-DETERMINED INDICATION FOR FACILITATING THE CONVERSION OF MEDICATION CLAIMS TO ACTIVE MEDICATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the conversion of medication claims to active medications by identifying medication claims that correspond with medications that a patient may be currently taking. In one method, medication claims data corresponding with a number of medication claims is accessed. A determination is made for each medication claim whether the medication claim corresponds with a medication that the patient is currently taking. The medication claims are presented with an indication provided for each medication claim determined to correspond with a current medication for the patient. A clinician may then review the medication claims and easily identify and select medication claims for conversion to active medications. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294464 | CONVERTING MEDICATION CLAIMS TO ACTIVE MEDICATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for accessing medication claims data and converting medication claims to active medications. In one method, medication claims data corresponding with a number of medication claims is accessed. The medication claims may then be presented to a clinician, who may manually review and determine the claims that a patient may currently be taking. Accordingly, a medication claim may be selected and converted to an active medication. A clinician may wish to convert a medication claim to an active medication for record purposes, such as for interaction checking, for example, and/or may wish to convert a medication claim to an active medication to manage the medication for the patient. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294465 | LARGE-SCALE INFORMATION COLLECTION AND MINING - The methods/systems described herein facilitate large-scale data collection and aggregation. One exemplary system that facilitates large-scale reporting of health-related data comprises a data collection component, a database and an aggregation component. The data collection component can collect health-related data on a large-scale from a non-selected population. The database can store at least some of the health-related data. The aggregation component can facilitate automatically ascertaining at least one pattern from the health-related data at least in part by applying one or more statistical, data-mining or machine-learning techniques to the database. One exemplary method of extracting health observations from information obtained on a macro-scale comprises receiving information about a plurality of self-selected subjects, pooling the information, mining the pooled information at least in part by employing a data-mining algorithm to infer one or more health observations from the pooled information, and monetizing the one or more health observations. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294466 | System and Method of Determining the Annuity Value and Cost for Providing Long-Term Health Care for the Elderly - A system and method of providing care annuities that guarantee provision of actual, appropriate custodial care to individuals. The care annuities are priced based on an estimated cost of providing anticipated, appropriate custodial care for an anticipated time period, such as a Medicaid lookback time. Some or all of the calculations involved in pricing and providing the care annuity, including estimating the type, length and cost of custodial care appropriate for an individual, may be made using a suitably programmed computer. A suitably priced care annuity will guarantee the individual actual, appropriate custodial care for as long as actually required and make business sense to the seller of the annuity. The risk of a possible difference between the estimated and actual cost of providing care may be factored into the price in a statistical manner so that the risk can be spread over a pool of care annuities. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294467 | EDUCATION INSURANCE AND PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - An education insurance product and process of implementing the same includes determination of an insurance premium and payment of the insurance premium for an educational insured event where the insured event can be retaken by the insured in the future. At the completion of the event, a determination is made whether the student successfully or unsuccessfully accomplished the event. If the event was unsuccessfully accomplished, an insurance claim can be filed and, if determined to be valid, a claim benefit is issued to the insured allowing the student to retake the insured event in the future without again paying the full enrollment fee for the insured event. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294468 | PROCESS FOR AUTOMATING AND SIMPLIFYING COMMERCIAL INSURANCE TRANSACTIONS - The present invention relates to a process for automating and simplifying commercial insurance transactions, particularly at the broker level. Insurance transactions between brokers and insurance companies are automated and simplified through software processes. This is done by maintaining electronic databases of information on insured, insurance companies, and brokers. Brokers are able to view records for their client insureds as well as for the insurance companies from which they will receive quotes. Information is electronically populated into forms having a format which is transferable and readable by any of the parties involved. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294469 | Travel Service Aggregator - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a system that includes a user interface to receive an electronic status change for an airline flight and an airline reservation system to determine whether at least one ancillary travel service associated with the airline flight should be modified based on the received electronic status change. The system includes a messaging interface to electronically transmit a request to modify the at least one ancillary travel service based on the electronic status change if the determination is made to modify the at least one ancillary travel service. The messaging interface further electronically transmits payment information to the travel service provider for use in crediting or debiting a payment associated with the at least one modified ancillary travel service. The payment information is associated with a customer that reserved the at least one ancillary travel service. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING RATES FOR TRAVEL SERVICES - A method and system are provided for presenting rates for travel services using dynamic pricing bands. The dynamic pricing bands represent approximate rates for travel services relative to available rates during or close to the proposed dates of travel, or at or near the proposed travel destination. Each dynamic pricing band is keyed to a particular color, intensity, pattern, sound, or other graphical and/or audio characteristic, thereby providing the consumer a sense of the seasonal, regional, day of week, or other variability of rates for travel services without having to compare actual numbers. The dynamic pricing bands are applied to an interactive presentation of rates for travel services to allow the consumer to explore possible rate variations for particular travel services in a manner that provides a birds-eye view, is intuitive and user-friendly. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294471 | Event-based analysis of business objectives - Aspects of the invention relate to displaying on a graph data describing events and data describing key performance indicators (KPIs). The event data describes an occurrence that may influence the performance objectives of a business, such as the appearance of an advertisement for the business in a magazine. The KPI data describes a quantifiable measure of the business's performance, such as the number of sales of a product. The event data and KPI data are received and displayed on a graph so that the business owner can understand the relationship between the events and the KPIs. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294472 | Server For a Distributed Power Generation Management System and Power Generation Management System Using the Same - This invention is a server for calculating a value of a power generated by distributed power generation with a small environmental load. The server has a function of receiving power information on a distributed power-generation facility transmitted through a network from an information terminal possessed by at least one of a holder of the distributed generation facility, a power manager of the distributed generation facility, and a trader brokering power related payment of the holder of the distributed generation facility, a function of accumulating the received power information, directly inputted power information, and value information used for determining a value of the power, and an arithmetic function of calculating the value of the power from the power information and value information. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294473 | System and Method for Automatic Testing of Planning Results - A system and a method are disclosed for automatically testing planning results, the tests being made possible by a data processing device in which planning results that are to be verified are stored in an electronic format, and with the aid of software used for performing automatic and systematic tests. The software can contain test criteria that are stored in the form of rules as well as test programs which have access to the planning results and the rules. Additionally, display and/or output media are provided to output test results. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294474 | MANIFEST DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a method and system of determining efficient routing of a mail piece in a delivery system for delivering mail pieces. The system determines whether or not the mail piece requires urgent delivery. The system determines a weight of the mail piece. Also, the system determines, based on the urgency determination and the weight determination, a most cost-effective place in which to introduce the mail piece into the delivery system. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294475 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE SHOPPER TRAFFIC IN RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and apparatus to determine shopper traffic in retail environments are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method of generating shopper traffic data, in-person-based count data and sensor-based count data are obtained. The in-person-based count data is indicative of a first quantity of shoppers within a first zone of a monitored establishment is obtained. The sensor-based count data is indicative of a second quantity of shoppers within the first zone of the monitored establishment. The example method also involves determining a relationship value indicative of a relationship between the in-person-based count data, the sensor-based count data, and first sales data associated with the first zone of the monitored establishment. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294476 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR IN-STORE MEDIA AND CONSUMER TRAFFIC RELATED TO RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and apparatus to monitor in-store media and consumer traffic related to retail environments are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method to monitor a monitored establishment, a survey is presented to an auditor and a user-provided survey response is received indicative of a condition in a monitored establishment that affects an accuracy of shopper count information provided by the auditor. Instructions are displayed to the auditor to sequentially move to a plurality of predetermined locations in the monitored establishment and collect a shopper count corresponding to each of the predetermined locations. The example method also involves receiving and storing each of the plurality of shopper counts. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294477 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCORPORATING PACKAGIN AND SHIPPING RAMIFICATIONS OF NET PROFIT/LOSS WHEN UP-SELLING - An up-sell and down-sell method and system that considers a ranking of the individual marginal profit/loss of adding every product SKU of a merchant to an order (or a certain subset of SKU's based on other criteria), considering not only certain traditional fixed metrics the merchant may define such as product gross margins, credit card fees and labor costs (the cost of the pick)—but most importantly, variable packaging and shipping costs as well. In particular, the invention focuses on the packaging and shipping ramifications of up-selling every potential merchant SKU (or a certain subset of SKU's based on other criteria) to customer's order and down-selling each item already in customer's order. Once an adjusted net profit/loss ranking by SKU is available that considers variable shipping and packaging ramifications of up-selling such SKU to an existing order, a merchant can then determine to factor such ranking in how it up-sells or down-sells—including but not limited to up-selling certain SKU's and not others, structuring different discounts on different SKU's and potentially incentivizing customers to delete certain items in their order. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294478 | DOCUMENT SECURITY WITHIN A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - A computer-based method for defining an enterprise organisation providing electronic document security. Enterprise elements of management groups are defined to correspond with an area of accountability, each group having one of several types, including “line of business”, “key results area”, and “senior management”. Each group has several subgroups, including “group head”, “administrative assistant” and “direct report”. Employees are assigned to one or more management group and subgroup, and management groups are related to each other to represent the organisation hierarchy. Groups may be related as “reports to”, “services”, or other defined relationships. Documents are defined having document content and properties. The properties include owning and related management groups. Access to the document is declared so that employees have a level of access based on membership of one or more groups. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294479 | Data processing system and method - A data processing system including a database, a file server coupled to the database, a template engine coupled to the file server. The template engine being configured to create a plurality of insurance brokerage industry templates. The system further including an application service provider interface logic coupled to the file server and the template engine. The application service provider interface logic being configured to receive commands via a communication network from a client device to access an open platform template library in the database and retrieve one of the plurality of insurance brokerage industry templates. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294480 | Creating a privacy policy from a process model and verifying the compliance - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for creating a privacy policy from a process model, and methods and apparatus for checking the compliance of a privacy policy. An example of a method for creating a privacy policy from a process model according to the invention comprises the following steps. First, a task from the process model is chosen. Then one or more of the elements role, data, purpose, action, obligation, and condition are gathered from the task and a rule is build up by means of these elements. Finally the rule is added to the privacy policy. | 2008-11-27 |
20080294481 | Data Management and Processing System for Large Enterprise Model and Method Therefor - A computer system performs data processing using a data organizer which parses a primary set of data into predefined sets of data components according to one or more enterprise models. The sets of data components from the data organizer are respectively stored in multiple data sources. The data components may be stored as a binary file or hierarchical file. A plurality of data processing systems execute the enterprise models. A task manager controls which enterprise model executes on each data processing system. The data processing systems access the data components from the data sources which correspond the executing enterprise model. The data components are sent over dedicated communication channels to the data processing systems. Each data processing system may have a data interface, which is configured to receive data from different sources and convert the data into a standard format. | 2008-11-27 |