50th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090306927 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE TOTAL TEMPERATURE OF AN AIRFLOW SURROUNDING AN AIRCRAFT - A method for determining the total temperature of the air stream surrounding an aircraft, including the following operations; measuring a parameter of static temperature, measuring a parameter of total temperature, determining a value of speed of the air stream, determining a total temperature computed from the parameters of measured static temperature and measured total temperature as a function of the speed of the air stream. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306928 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING THE RISK OF ICING ON AERODYNAMIC SURFACES - The invention relates to a method and a system for detecting the risk of icing on aerodynamic surfaces lapped by a fluid flow (F), in particular on load-bearing surfaces of fluid machines, of the type comprising a temperature sensor ( | 2009-12-10 |
20090306929 | ULTRASONIC DIMENSIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An ultrasonic dimensioning system and method by which objects can be quickly and accurately measured (dimensioned). The system includes at least a stable object support surface, a number of ultrasonic receivers, and an ultrasonic transmitter. The ultrasonic transmitter is preferably part of a pointer device that is properly positioned relative to an object to be measured, the proper position(s) depending on the shape of the object. Subsequent transmission of ultrasonic pulses (waves) from the pointer device are received by the ultrasonic receivers. The time intervals between transmission and reception of the ultrasonic pulses (waves) are used to determine the distance of the pointer from the receivers, which distances are subsequently used to calculate the dimensions/volume of the object. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306930 | Method and system for measuring a component - A method for measuring the profile of a component in the region of an edge of the component comprises the following steps: determining the position of an edge point of the component; defining a centre line for the component in the region of the edge; and measuring at least one dimension of the component with reference to the centre line. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306931 | SHAPE MEASUREMENT METHOD OF SYNTHETICALLY COMBINING PARTIAL MEASUREMENTS - Coordinate transformation parameters are adopted at the time of synthetically combining partial measurement data so as to eliminate the setting error that can get in when a workpiece is set in position on a measuring machine. Then, a shape parameter is adopted to estimate the approximate error shape of the entire workpiece and the approximate error shape is removed from the measurement data. As a result, the residuals are reduced if the measurement data are those of three-dimensional sequences of points. Differences are small when small residuals are compared so that the mismatch is reduced. According to the present invention, the entire measurement data can be synthetically combined without using the conventional concept of overlap. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306932 | Similarity index: a rapid classification method for multivariate data arrays - Similarity Index: a rapid classification method for multivariate data arrays The present invention is directed to a method of determining the similarity between a first multivariate data set and a second multivariate data set. The method is versatile and can be applied to a number of different multivariate data sets, for example, a spectroscopy multivariate data set. In particular, the method may be applied to rapidly assess the similarity between fluorescence spectroscopy multivariate data sets. The method comprises the steps of representing the data of a first and a second multivariate data set in matrix form to yield a multivariate data matrix, wherein each multivariate data matrix has the same dimensions. Subsequently, the magnitude of an additive and subtractive combination of each multivariate data matrix is calculated. The concept of a penalty parameter is introduced to set a detectable limit of variance between said first multivariate data set and said second multivariate data set. The penalty parameter is ascribed a value and is used in combination with the magnitude of an additive and subtractive combination of each multivariate data matrix to determine a similarity value. The determined similarity value indicates the variance between said first multivariate data set and said second multivariate data set. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306933 | Sampling Sufficiency Testing - Sampling sufficiency determinations are performed using probability calculations and statistical analysis during a testing process of a population of items. For example, an auditing or reviewing process may involve testing a predetermined sample set of items from the population in order to draw statistical conclusions about the passing or failing rate of the population as a whole. During an ongoing testing process, probability calculations and statistical analyses may be performed regarding the likelihood of the population to pass or fail according to an acceptable failure rate, based on the test results of a subset of the sample set. The sampling sufficiency analyses may potentially allow determinations that the testing process may be stopped before the complete testing of the sample set, and that the population may be declared a passing or failing population within a desired level of confidence. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306934 | Instrument monitoring system - An instrument monitoring system comprises a monitoring device including a sensor for measuring an instrument and a control unit, where the control unit includes a data flow microcontroller processor; a wireless transmitter configured to receive a data signal from the monitoring device and to transmit the data signal using a wireless data transmission protocol; a wireless reader capable of receiving the data signal from the wireless transmitter; a computing device in communication with the wireless reader, where the computing device includes software configured to present the data signal as user-readable data; and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is capable of storing the data. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306935 | PRODUCT REPAIR ASSISTANCE USING A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - An approach that provides product repair assistance using a virtual universe is described. In one embodiment, there is a method for providing repair assistance for a real-world product in a virtual universe. The method includes receiving diagnostic information relating to the real-world product, ascertaining repair assistance information for the real-world product from the received diagnostic information, and generating a rendition of the real-world product along with the repair assistance information for display to a resident on-line in the virtual universe. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306936 | SAMPLING APPARATUS, SAMPLING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a sampling apparatus that samples a signal under measurement, including a clock control section that generates a plurality of sampling clocks at a plurality of sampling phases at determined non-uniform intervals, so as to cancel out replicas in a sampling band that are not observation targets, from among the replicas of the signal under measurement and the replicas of the negative frequency component of the signal under measurement, in each sampling repetition cycle; and a sampling section that samples the signal under measurement with each of the plurality of sampling clocks. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306937 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING WIND NOISE - A method and system for detecting wind noise are adapted to determine whether two of a plurality of sound signals acquired by a plurality of sound receiving units include wind noise. The method includes the following steps: (a) transforming the two sound signals to their corresponding digitized sound signals including a plurality of sound frames; (b) calculating a correlation coefficient of each pair of the corresponding sound frames from the two digitized sound signals; (c) subtracting one of the digitized sound signals from the other, and transforming the resultant digitized sound signal to frequency domain; (d) selecting a frequency bin in frequency domain for each of the sound frames to serve as a frequency boundary, and calculating a dB difference, a low-frequency energy decay factor, and a low-frequency ripple number of each of the sound frames according to the frequency boundary; and (e) determining whether the correlation coefficient, the dB difference, the low-frequency energy decay factor, and the low-frequency ripple number of a respective sound frame comply with a predetermined determination rule, the two sound signals being determined to include wind noise if affirmative. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306938 | Evaluation Circuit for Processing Digital Signals, Method, and Sensor Assembly - An evaluation circuit for processing digital signals, the evaluation circuit processing an input data word and outputting an output data word, and a method for processing digital signals in an evaluation circuit, and to a sensor assembly. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306939 | Dental analysis method and system - A dental analysis system and method for designing the dentition of a patient, comprising the steps of: providing a visual representation of the dentition, inputting a value representative of the number of teeth on a side of the dentition, inputting at least two quantities taken from a group consisting of a ratio, an inter-teeth distance and a central incisor width, computing the position of the teeth within the dentition by applying a mathematical function to the value representative of the number of teeth on a side of the dentition and the at least two quantities and juxtaposing positioning lines over the visual representation of the dentition, the positioning lines indicating the position of the teeth as computed. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306940 | Method for Planning Sheet Pile Wall Sections - A method is provided for planning sheet pile wall sections via a user-oriented network—in particular, the Internet—in which at least technical characteristics of a suitable component for the layout of a sheet pile wall section and/or the layout of a sheet pile wall section itself are determined for the user by a computer system. The method comprises the steps of: (a) entering at least two constructional parameters of the sheet pile wall section, via the user-oriented network, into the computer system, within which various data of components for the layout of a sheet pile wall section, data of layouts for sheet pile wall sections, and technical characteristics of the components and the layouts are stored in a database of the computer system; (b) determining at least one suitable component and/or at least one suitable layout, via the computer system, on the basis of the entered construction parameters and the technical characteristics stored in the database; and (c) providing the user with the data of the component and/or layout determined in step (b) | 2009-12-10 |
20090306941 | Structure Model description and use for scatterometry-based semiconductor manufacturing process metrology - A method includes accessing a structure model defining a cross-sectional profile of a structure on a sample. The cross-sectional profile is at least partially defined using a set of blocks. Each of the blocks includes a number of vertices. One or more of the vertices are expressed using one or more algebraic relationships between a number of parameters corresponding to the structure. Information is evaluated from the structure model to produce expected metrology data for a scatterometry-based optical metrology. The expected metrology data is suitable for use for determining one or more of the number of parameters corresponding to the structure. Apparatus are also disclosed. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306942 | System and Method(s) of Mine Planning, Design and Processing - The present invention relates to the field of extracting resource(s) from a particular location. In particular, the present invention relates to the planning, design and processing related to a mine location in a manner based on enhancing the extraction of material considered of value, relative to the effort and/or time in extracting that material. The present application discloses, amongst other things, a method of and apparatus for determining slope constraints, determining a cluster of material, determining characteristics of a selected portion of material, analysing a selected volume of material, propagating clusters, forming clusters, mine design, aggregation of blocks into collections or clusters, splitting of waste and ore in clumps, determining a selected group of blocks to be mined, clump ordering and identifying clusters for pushback design. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306943 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REDUCED ORDER MODEL ADAPTIVE SIMULATION OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS - Methods, systems and computer program products for selecting input data, including operational parameters for a nuclear system using a reduced order model of a complex computational model are provided. The complex computational model includes a set of equations that describe the nuclear system. An adjoint model associated with the complex model can be obtained, and output data from the adjoint model can be calculated using a plurality of r random sets of input data to the adjoint model. A degree of correlation of the calculated adjoint output data can be determined. A plurality of k reduced correlation subsets of the plurality of r adjoint output data sets can be downselected based on the degree of correlation, such that k2009-12-10 | |
20090306944 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING AND SUPPLYING A DRUG DOSE - The invention relates to a device for use in the clinical/therapeutical field for the patient-individual optimization of the dosage and/or the dosage scheme of a drug based on rational, mathematical models which take into consideration possible physiological variations that are due to the illness or other particularities of the patient and the interaction with co-drugs that are administered at times close to each other. The invention also relates to the supply of said drug dose by means of a dosage device. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306945 | Upscaling Reservoir Models By Reusing Flow Solutions From Geologic Models - Method is provided for simulating a physical process such as fluid flow in porous media by performing a fine-grid calculation of the process in a medium and re-using the fine grid solution in subsequent coarse-grid calculations. For fluid flow in subsurface formations, the method may be applied to optimize upscaled calculation grids formed from geologic models. The method decreases the cost of optimizing a grid to simulate a physical process that is mathematically described by the diffusion equation. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306946 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATION AND REPRESENTATION OF AGENTS IN A HIGH-DENSITY AUTONOMOUS CROWD - This invention relates to methods and systems for simulation and representation of the behavior of individuals in a high-density autonomous crowd in response to a changing dynamic environment. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306947 | Modeling And Management of Reservoir Systems With Material Balance Groups - Methods and systems for modeling a reservoir system are described. The method includes constructing a reservoir model of a reservoir system. The reservoir model includes a reservoir and a plurality of wells. Also, one or more material balance groups are constructed with each material balance group having a portion of at least one of the plurality of wells, a portion of the reservoir, and at least one well management algorithm to track material balance within the respective material balance group. Then, fluid flow through the reservoir model is simulated based on the material balance groups by a simulator and the results are reported. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306948 | VOLUME SIMULATION - Systems and methods for simulating ballistic motion on an animated object by continuously defining rest poses of the animation object in a motion simulator. Tetrahedral finite element simulation may be used with control mechanisms that target the simulation pose towards the animation. A simulation mesh is generated for two or more animated poses based on a first simulation mesh corresponding to a first pose of the animated object. The simulation meshes of the two or more animated poses are provided to a simulator for use by the simulator such that in the absence of external force and acceleration the simulator output approximates the animated poses. Embodiments of the present invention are particularly useful for fleshy, blobby animation objects such as human characters, although the techniques can be used for other objects having different characteristics. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306949 | STATE ESTIMATING APPARATUS AND STATE ESTIMATING PROGRAM - A state estimating apparatus permits efficient, highly accurate estimation of the state of an object. A particle in a state variable space defined by a second state variable preferentially remains or increases as the likelihood thereof relative to a current measured value of a first state variable is higher, while a particle is preferentially extinguished as the likelihood thereof is lower. A particle which transitions in the state variable space according to a state transition model with a high probability of being followed by an object (a high-likelihood model) as a next model tends to increase. On the other hand, although in a small quantity, there are particles having models (low-likelihood models) which are different from the high-likelihood model as their unique models. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306950 | Descriptors of three-dimensional objects, uses thereof and a method to generate the same - A computer-based method of generating a descriptor of a three-dimensional object wherein the following steps are performed for each of a set of one or more cages and for each of one or more properties:
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20090306951 | ARCHITECTURE FOR SUBSCRIBER SIMULATION ON AN ATN - The present invention concerns the field of communication networks having a structure similar to an aeronautical telecommunications network (ATN). In particular, the invention relates in particular to how to simply simulate a large number of subscribers exchanging information via an ATN with equipment under test so as to test the ability of the equipment to exchange, via an ATN, information with a large number of subscribers. The inventive architecture comprises in particular a modified ATN stack enabling several separate communication channels to be opened on the ATN for a common application, said application being simultaneously implemented by several simulated entities. The modification of the ATN stack concerns in particular the assignment, by the corresponding ASE layers, of AEq identifiers to the applications implemented by the simulated entities. This modification also concerns the association of a network identifier T | 2009-12-10 |
20090306952 | SIMULATION METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - In a normal operation, a physical unit simulator is allowed to speculatively perform high-speed continuous execution. Only when an actual input comes in, a speculative input and the actual input are compared with each other. Thereafter, in response to inconsistency between the inputs, the physical unit simulator is returned to a point closest to the point of the actual input and is allowed to execute a variable step module to reach the point of the actual input. Upon arrival at the point of the actual input, the simulator is shifted back to the high-speed continuous execution from there. Thus, a processing speed of the simulator can be significantly improved. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306953 | Generating Variation-Aware Library Data With Efficient Device Mismatch Characterization - In a method of generating variation-aware library data for statistical static timing analysis (SSTA), a “synthetic” Gaussian variable can be used to represent all instances of one or more mismatch variations in all devices (e.g. transistors), thereby capturing the effect on at least one timing property (e.g. delay or slew). By modeling device mismatch with synthetic random variables, the variation behavior (in terms of the distribution of delay, slew, constraint, etc.) can be interpreted as the outcomes of process variations instead of modeling the variation sources (e.g. transistor shape variations, variations in dopant atom density, and irregularity of edges). | 2009-12-10 |
20090306954 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SIMULATING MANUAL TESTING OF A COMPUTER, AND TESTING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method for automatically simulating manual testing of a computer after the computer is powered on includes the steps of: (a) connecting the computer to an external storage device having a script recorded thereon that corresponds to a manual testing operation; and (b) after the computer is powered on, enabling the computer to access the script of the external storage device for performing the manual testing operation. By providing automatic simulation of manual testing of a computer after the computer is powered on, time and labor costs incurred in a conventional method of manually inputting instructions required for the manual testing operation in the computer are saved. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306955 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING ROLLING ELEMENT BEARING SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for analyzing rolling element bearing systems are provided. A graphical user interface (GUI) is rendered on a display device. The graphical user interface includes a plurality of characteristics of the rolling element bearing system and a plurality of widgets associated with the characteristics. An indication of a value is received with each of the widgets. Each value is representative of the respective characteristic of the rolling element bearing system. A first analysis of the rolling element bearing system is performed based on the values with a first rolling element bearing solver. A second analysis of the rolling element bearing system is performed based on the values with a second rolling element bearing solver. Results of at least one of the first and second analyses are displayed on the display device. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306956 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - An information processing apparatus includes: a display control means for controlling display of a GUI for operating a first apparatus including buttons operated when opening and closing a tray; and a processing means for performing processing by receiving an instruction from the first apparatus or for transmitting the instruction to the first apparatus, wherein the GUI includes graphics of a second apparatus obtained by copying out the first apparatus, and the second apparatus includes graphics corresponding to the tray and the button, when the button in the second apparatus is operated, the display control means controls graphics in which the tray is opened or closed in the second apparatus, and when the button provided in the first apparatus is operated, the processing means instructs the display control means to control graphics in which the tray is opened or closed in the second apparatus. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306957 | USING SEPARATE RECORDING CHANNELS FOR SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEMS - A system and method for speech-to-speech translation using a translation system includes designating separate input channels for each of a plurality of speakers. In response to speech from a first channel in a first language, the speech from the first channel is translated to a second language, and in response to speech from the second channel in a second language, the speech from the second channel is translated to the first language. Translating the speech from the first channel and translating the speech from the second channel are performed concurrently. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306958 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR A SOURCE LANGUAGE TO BE UNDERSTOOD BY A LISTENER MASTERING A TARGET LANGUAGE - The invention concerns a method for source language comprehension designed for a listener mastering a target language, which consists in causing the listener to listen to a statement, consisting of a series of several contents, in the source language and in displaying simultaneously with the listening of the statement a succession of notations marking the succession of contents in the source language, showing a notation marking a content only as from the time when it is being heard and showing, a series of inscriptions in the target language which corresponds to the full statement. The method is characterized in that it consists in showing the whole series of inscriptions before the beginning of the statement. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306959 | PERSONAL TEXT ASSISTANT - A method and system of generating personalized annotated text of a core-text, the method and system directed for acquiring a personal data comprising data indicative of the reader's proficiency level for understanding text; and providing at least a gloss to accompany the requested text based on core-text and the reader's proficiency level. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306960 | MUSIC PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND MUSIC PLAYBACK METHOD - A music playback apparatus playing back music, comprising: a music data storing unit storing a plurality of pieces of music-track data; a metadata storing unit storing metadata corresponding to the respective pieces of music-track data; a sound data conversion unit converting the metadata and so on into sound data; a playback unit playing back the music-track data and the sound data; and a control unit reading out and inputting, to the sound data conversion unit, metadata corresponding to the music-track data to be played back from the metadata storing unit, and inputting sound data output from the sound data conversion unit into the playback unit to make the playback unit perform sound playback at a timing of either before playback, during playback or after playback of the music-track data. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306961 | SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIP-BASED LOCATION DESCRIPTION PARSING - An automated arrangement for parsing location descriptions is provided in which semantic verification is integrated into a parsing process to reduce the generation of false results. The semantic verification involves checking up to three semantic relationships between keywords (i.e., syntactical components) parsed from the location description in a tokenization process to determine if a tokenization result is valid. The semantic relationships include: a) a spatial “part-of” relationship between location keywords; b) a spatial “near-by” relationship; and, c) a spatial “intersect” relationship. The semantic relationships between particular locations may be pre-calculated and stored as extended vocabulary to enable the semantic verification to occur early in the parsing process to thus increase overall parsing efficiency. The results of the parsing are sorted based on a rank score that is derived using the semantic relationships between the locations. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306962 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE WARNINGS ASSOCIATED WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE SEARCHES TO DETERMINE INTENDED ACTIONS AND ACCIDENTAL OMISSIONS - A method for providing notification of content potentially omitted from within an active document in a document preparation application comprises defining a natural language model for a set of phrasal forms associating each phrasal form with a content type; parsing a textual content of the active document to generate one or more natural language tokens; accessing the natural language model to identify each of the one or more natural language tokens that matches with a phrasal form; generating a list of expected content items having an expected content item for each of the one or more natural language tokens that matches with a phrasal form; scanning the active document to attempt to locate each expected content item; and displaying a notification of each expected content item not located. Each expected content item is generated based upon the content type associated with the corresponding matching phrasal form in the natural language model. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306963 | Representation of objects and relationships in databases, directories, web services, and applications as sentences as a method to represent context in structured data - Systems and methods are disclosed for tagging and translating database objects and relationships into sentences. The successive composition of these sentences form hierarchies which encode contextual information about the objects. A virtual directory/context server functions using a common abstraction layer to access data from databases, applications, directories, Web Services, and other data sources within the enterprise. The virtual directory/context server includes a sentence/context builder module that enables the translation or relationships between data and from the plurality of data sources into a human-readable form, for example, an English language sentence. Thus, applications can view, access, and/or modify the data from the data sources of the enterprise through the virtual directory/context server, for example, using the sentences representative of the relationships between the data. The sentences are indexed, which allows for searches that bring information not only about objects, but also about the context in which those objects appear. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306964 | DATA DETECTION - A method of processing a sequence of characters, the method comprising converting the sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens so that each token comprises a lexeme and one of a plurality of token types. Each of the plurality of token types relates to at least one of a plurality of predetermined functions, wherein at least one said token type relates to multiple functions of the plurality of predetermined functions. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306965 | DATA DETECTION - An apparatus for processing a sequence of tokens to detect predetermined data, wherein each said token has a token type, and the predetermined data has a structure that comprises a predetermined sequence of token types, including at least one optional token type. The apparatus comprises a processor arranged to: provide a tree for detecting the predetermined data, the tree comprising a plurality of states, each said state being linked with at least one other state by a respective condition, the arrangement of linked states forming a plurality of paths; and compare the token types of the sequence of tokens to respective conditions in the tree to match the sequence of tokens to one or more paths in the tree, wherein the predetermined data can be detected without using an epsilon reduction to take account of said at least one optional token type. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306966 | Method and apparatus to determine and use audience affinity and aptitude - An embodiment of the present invention is a method of presenting a media work which includes: detecting media work content properties in a portion of the media work; associating a presentation rate of the portion with the detected media work content properties; and presenting the portion at the presentation rate; wherein the media work content properties include one or more of: (a) indicia of a number of syllables in utterances; (b) indicia of a number of letters in a word; (c) indicia of the complexity of grammatical structures in portions of the media work; (d) indicia of arrival rate of newly presented objects; (e) indicia of temporal proximity of between events in portions of the media work or (f) indicia of number of phonemes per unit of time in portions of the media work. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306967 | Automatic Sentiment Analysis of Surveys - In one aspect, the invention provides apparatuses and methods for determining the sentiment expressed in answers to survey questions. Advantageously, the sentiment may be automatically determined using natural language processing. In another aspect, the invention provides apparatuses and methods for analyzing the sentiment of survey respondents and presenting the information as actionable data. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GRANTING IDENTIFICATION CODES TO ELECTRONIC TEACHING MATERIAL CONTENTS' SENTENCE STRUCTURES, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEARCHING DATA OF ELECTRONIC TEACHING MATERIAL CONTENTS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING POINTS OF USE AND SERVICE OF ELECTRONIC TEACHING MATERIAL CONTENTS - Disclosed is a system, which grants identification code to sentence structures of electronic teaching material contents, includes the following units. The identification code production unit distinguishes each syllable of electronic teaching material content's selected sentence structure according to type of language, and produces peculiar identification code using the first phoneme or syllable of each syllable. The identification code grant unit grants identification code to metadata of file which stores electronic teaching material contents of above. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306969 | Systems and Methods for an Automated Personalized Dictionary Generator for Portable Devices - A system and method for automated dictionary population is provided to facilitate the entry of textual material in dictionaries for enhancing word prediction. The automated dictionary population system is useful in association with a mobile device including at least one dictionary which includes entries. The device receives a communication which is parsed and textual data extracted. The text is compared to the entries of the dictionaries to identify new words. Statistical information for the parsed words, including word usage frequency, recency, or likelihood of use, is generated. Profanities may be processed by identifying profanities, modifying the profanities, and asking the user to provide feedback. Phrases are identified by phrase markers. Lastly, the new words are stored in a supplementary word list as single words or by linking the words of the identified phrases to preserve any phrase relationships. Likewise, the statistical information may be stored. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306970 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN IN-BAND MODEM FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS OVER DIGITAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A system is provided for transmitting information through a speech codec (in-band) such as found in a wireless communication network. A modulator transforms the data into a spectrally noise-like signal based on the mapping of a shaped pulse to predetermined positions within a modulation frame, and the signal is efficiently encoded by a speech codec. A synchronization sequence provides modulation frame timing at the receiver and is detected based on analysis of a correlation peak pattern. A request/response protocol provides reliable transfer of data using message redundancy, retransmission, and/or robust modulation modes dependent on the communication channel conditions. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306971 | AUDIO SIGNAL QUALITY ENHANCEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - An audio signal quality enhancement apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a pitch calculating unit to extract a pitch period of an audio signal, a frequency domain transforming unit to transform the audio signal to a frequency domain, a frequency band dividing unit to classify the transformed audio signal into audio signals for each of the plurality of frequency bands based on the extracted pitch period, and a pitch enhancement unit to determine a gain based on a volume of the transformed audio signal, and to generate an output signal by multiplying each of the classified audio signals with respect to each of the plurality of frequency bands by the gain, thereby enhancing quality of the audio signal. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306972 | Dropout Concealment for a Multi-Channel Arrangement - A method conceals dropouts in one or more audio channels of a multi-channel arrangement. The method maps transmitted signals into a frequency domain during an error-free signal transmission of two or more channels. A magnitude spectra and spectral filter coefficients are derived. The spectral filter coefficients relate the magnitude spectrum of the audio channel to the magnitude spectrum of at least one other channel. When a dropout occurs, a replacement signal is generated through the filter coefficients and a substitution signal. The filter coefficients may be generated prior to the detection of the dropout. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306973 | Sound Source Separation Apparatus and Sound Source Separation Method - A sound source separation apparatus, includes: a plurality of sound input means into which a plurality of mixed sound signals in which sound source signals from a plurality of sound sources superimpose each other are input; first sound source separating means for separating and extracting SIMO signals corresponding to at least one sound source signal from the plurality of mixed sound signals by means of a sound source separation process of a blind source separation system based on an independent component analysis method; intermediate processing executing means for obtaining a plurality of intermediately processed signals by carrying out a predetermined intermediate processing including one of a selection process and a synthesizing process to a plurality of specified signals which is at least a part of the SIMO signals, for each of frequency components divided into a plurality; and second sound source separating means for obtaining separation signals corresponding to the sound source signals by applying a binary masking process to the plurality of intermediately processed signals or a part of the SIMO signals and the plurality of intermediately processed signals. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN IN-BAND MODEM FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS OVER DIGITAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A system is provided for transmitting information through a speech codec (in-band) such as found in a wireless communication network. A modulator transforms the data into a spectrally noise-like signal based on the mapping of a shaped pulse to predetermined positions within a modulation frame, and the signal is efficiently encoded by a speech codec. A synchronization sequence provides modulation frame timing at the receiver and is detected based on analysis of a correlation peak pattern. A request/response protocol provides reliable transfer of data using message redundancy, retransmission, and/or robust modulation modes dependent on the communication channel conditions. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306975 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN IN-BAND MODEM FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS OVER DIGITAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A system is provided for transmitting information through a speech codec (in-band) such as found in a wireless communication network. A modulator transforms the data into a spectrally noise-like signal based on the mapping of a shaped pulse to predetermined positions within a modulation frame, and the signal is efficiently encoded by a speech codec. A synchronization sequence provides modulation frame timing at the receiver and is detected based on analysis of a correlation peak pattern. A request/response protocol provides reliable transfer of data using message redundancy, retransmission, and/or robust modulation modes dependent on the communication channel conditions. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN IN-BAND MODEM FOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS OVER DIGITAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A system is provided for transmitting information through a speech codec (in-band) such as found in a wireless communication network. A modulator transforms the data into a spectrally noise-like signal based on the mapping of a shaped pulse to predetermined positions within a modulation frame, and the signal is efficiently encoded by a speech codec. A synchronization sequence provides modulation frame timing at the receiver and is detected based on analysis of a correlation peak pattern. A request/response protocol provides reliable transfer of data using message redundancy, retransmission, and/or robust modulation modes dependent on the communication channel conditions. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306977 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE PROGRAM FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A speech recognition device and method configured to include a computer, for recognizing speech, including: a storage location for storing a feature quantity acquired from a speech signal for each frame; storage portions for storing acoustic model data and language model data; a echo speech component for generating echo speech model data from a speech signal acquired prior to a speech signal to be processed at the current time point and using the echo speech model data to generate adapted acoustic model data; and a processing component for utilizing the feature quantity, the adapted acoustic model data, and the language model data to provide a speech recognition result of the speech signal. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306978 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING LANGUAGES - A method of encoding and decoding languages for international communication. A set of core words may be encoded, although the full vocabulary of the language might also be covered. The result is particularly suitable for use by people in relation to the keypad of a mobile phone, but may also be implemented in translation or communication software to create a language database for example. The encoding includes assigning digital symbols to selected words in the language, assigning alphanumeric representations to the digital symbols, and assigning pronounceable elements to the alphanumeric representations. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306979 | Data processing system for autonomously building speech identification and tagging data - A method, system, and computer program product for autonomously transcribing and building tagging data of a conversation. A corpus processing agent monitors a conversation and utilizes a speech recognition agent to identify the spoken languages, speakers, and emotional patterns of speakers of the conversation. While monitoring the conversation, the corpus processing agent determines emotional patterns by monitoring voice modulation of the speakers and evaluating the context of the conversation. When the conversation is complete, the corpus processing agent determines synonyms and paraphrases of spoken words and phrases of the conversation taking into consideration any localized dialect of the speakers. Additionally, metadata of the conversation is created and stored in a link database, for comparison with other processed conversations. A corpus, a transcription of the conversation containing metadata links, is then created. The corpus processing agent also determines the frequency of spoken keywords and phrases and compiles a popularity index. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306980 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND TEXT CORRECTING METHOD IN THE SAME - A mobile terminal including a voice receiving unit configured to receive input voice, a controller configured to convert the received input voice to text, a display configured to display the converted text, and an input unit configured to select a word included in the displayed converted text. Further, the controller is further configured to control the display to display a plurality of possible candidate words corresponding to the selected word in an arrangement in which a corresponding displayed candidate word is displayed with a proximity from the selected word that is based on how similar the corresponding candidate word is to the selected word. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306981 | Systems and methods for conversation enhancement - This invention description details systems and methods for improving human conversations by enhancing conversation participants' ability to: —Distill out and record core ideas of conversations. —Classify and prioritize these key concepts. —Recollect commitments and issues and take appropriate action. —Analyze and uncover new insight from the linkage of these ideas with those from other conversations. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306982 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR TEXT MINING - Disclosed is an apparatus includes a text input device that inputs text data provided with confidence measure, as subject for mining, a language processing unit that performs language analysis of the input text data provided with the confidence measures, a confidence measure exploiting characteristic word count unit that counts the characteristic words in the input text to provide a count result and that exploits the statistical information and the confidence measures provided in the input text to correct the count result obtained, a characteristic measure calculation unit that calculates the characteristic measure of each characteristic word from the corrected count result, a mining result output device that outputs the characteristic measure of each characteristic word obtained, a user operation input device for a user to input setting for language processing of the input text and setting for a technique for calculating the characteristic measure being found, a mining process management unit that transmits a user's command delivered from the user operation input device to respective components, and a statistical information database that records and holds the statistical information representing the property of the input text that may be presupposed. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306983 | USER ACCESS AND UPDATE OF PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS IN A COMPUTERIZED HEALTH DATA STORE VIA VOICE INPUTS - Systems and methods for enabling user access and update of personal health records stored in a health data store via voice inputs are provided. The system may include a computer program having a recognizer module configured to process structured word data of a user voice input received from a voice platform, to produce a set of tagged structured word data based on a healthcare-specific glossary. The computer program may further include a health data store interface configured to apply a rule set to the tagged structured word data to produce a query to the health data store and receive a response from the health data store based on the query, and a grammar generator configured to generate a reply sentence based on the response received from the health data store and pass the reply sentence to the voice platform to be played as a voice reply to the user. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306984 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF AUTOMATED QUALITY MONITORING - A system and method according to the present invention automates call monitoring activities to evaluate and directly improve agent-customer interactions. Rather than listening to an entire call or monitoring only a small fraction of all the calls made in the contact center, the system performs highly accurate, automated evaluations of all customer interactions. By automating the time-consuming aspect of monitoring calls, the system empowers contact center operators to address quality issues, more accurately measure, coach and reward agents, and identify business-critical trends. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNTHETICALLY GENERATED SPEECH DESCRIBING MEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for providing an automatic synthetically generated voice describing media content, the method comprising receiving one or more pieces of metadata for a primary media content, selecting at least one piece of metadata for output, and outputting the at least one piece of metadata as synthetically generated speech with the primary media content. Other aspects of the invention involve alternative output, output speech simultaneously with the primary media content, output speech during gaps in the primary media content, translate metadata in foreign language, tailor voice, accent, and language to match the metadata and/or primary media content. A user may control output via a user interface or output may be customized based on preferences in a user profile. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306986 | Method and system for providing speech synthesis on user terminals over a communications network - Service architecture for providing to a user terminal of a communications network textual information and relative speech synthesis, the user terminal being provided with a speech synthesis engine and a basic database of speech waveforms includes: a content server for downloading textual information requested by means of a browser application on the user terminal; a context manager for extracting context information from the textual information requested by the user terminal; a context selector for selecting an incremental database of speech waveforms associated with extracted context information and for downloading the incremental database into the user terminal; a database manager on the user terminal for managing the composition of an enlarged database of speech waveforms for the speech synthesis engine including the basic and the incremental databases of speech waveforms. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306987 | SINGING SYNTHESIS PARAMETER DATA ESTIMATION SYSTEM - There is provided a singing synthesis parameter data estimation system that automatically estimates singing synthesis parameter data for automatically synthesizing a human-like singing voice from an audio signal of input singing voice. A pitch parameter estimating section | 2009-12-10 |
20090306988 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY WHILE PRESERVING ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS - An audio privacy system reduces the intelligibility of speech in an audio signal while preserving prosodic information, such as pitch, relative energy and intonation so that a listener has the ability to recognize environmental sounds but not the speech itself. An audio signal is processed to separate non-vocalic information, such as pitch and relative energy of speech, from vocalic regions, after which syllables are identified within the vocalic regions. Representations of the vocalic regions are computed to produce a vocal tract transfer function and an excitation. The vocal tract transfer function for each syllable is then replaced with the vocal tract transfer function from another prerecorded vocalic sound. In one aspect, the identity of the replacement vocalic sound is independent of the identity of the syllable being replaced. A modified audio signal is then synthesized with the original prosodic information and the modified vocal tract transfer function to produce unintelligible speech that preserves the pitch and energy of the speech as well as environmental sounds. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306989 | VOICE INPUT SUPPORT DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, PROGRAM THEREOF, RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING THE PROGRAM, AND NAVIGATION DEVICE - A setting-item selector calculates probability of a name of a setting item to match a voice based on a conversion database and an audio signal, and retrieves and notifies the setting item in a manner corresponding to the probability. The related-item selector retrieves setting-item information corresponding to the setting item inputted through an input operation by a user based on a setting-item database, and retrieves a name of a related other setting item based on coincidence of set-content information and operation-content information of the setting-item information. A notification controller notifies a combination of related setting items. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306990 | VOICE ACTUATED AND OPERATOR VOICE PROMPTED COORDINATE MEASURING SYSTEM - A vehicle coordinate measuring system and method including a coordinate measuring device operably connected to a computer, and a voice input device for receiving prompts from the computer and enabling an operator to transmit responses to the prompts to the computer, with the computer adapted to translate the responses to digital information. The coordinate measuring device may record and transmit point location data to the computer, and the computer may correlate the point location data from the coordinate measuring device with the digital information from the responses. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306991 | METHOD FOR SELECTING PROGRAM AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A program selection method and a display apparatus thereof are provided. The program selection method includes generating a program list including at least one program title, determining whether there is a voice input for a program selection; searching for a desired program title corresponding to the voice input for the program selection among the at least one program title in the program list, and selecting a program corresponding to the desired program title based on the searching for the desired program title. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306992 | Method for switching rate and bandwidth scalable audio decoding rate - A method of bitrate switching on decoding an audio signal coded by a audio coding system, said decoding comprising a post-processing step depending on the bitrate. On switching from an initial bitrate to a final bitrate, said method includes a transition step of continuous change from a signal at the initial bitrate to a signal at the final bitrate, one or both of said signals being post-processed. Application to transmission of VoIP speech and/or audio signals in data packet networks. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306993 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOSSLESS ENCODING OF A SOURCE SIGNAL, USING A LOSSY ENCODED DATA STREAM AND A LOSSLESS EXTENSION DATA STREAM - The invention is related to lossless encoding of a source signal, using a lossy encoded data stream and a lossless extension data stream which together form a lossless encoded data stream for said source signal, whereby lossless audio compression means audio coding with bit-exact reproduction of the original PCM samples at decoder output. The lossy encoding/decoding may be an mp3 coding/decoding. The invention uses an integer MDCT and frequency domain de-correlation and time domain de-correlation for the residual signal of the base-layer lossy audio codec. The exploitation of side information from the lossy base-layer codec allows for reduction of redundancies in the gross bit stream, thus improving the coding efficiency of the lossy based lossless codec. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306994 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING FRAME TYPE - A method for identifying a frame type is disclosed. The present invention includes receiving current frame type information, obtaining previously received previous frame type information, generating frame identification information of a current frame using the current frame type information and the previous frame type information, and identifying the current frame using the frame identification information. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306995 | System and Method for Automated Testing of Complicated Dialog Systems - Embodiments of an automated dialog system testing method and component are described. This automated testing method and system supplements real human-based testing with simulated user input and incorporates a set of evaluation measures that focus on three basic aspects of task-oriented dialog systems, namely, understanding ability, efficiency, and the appropriateness of system actions. These measures are first applied on a corpus generated between a dialog system and a group of human users to demonstrate the validity of these measures with the human users' satisfaction levels. Results generally show that these measures are significantly correlated with these satisfaction levels. A regression model is then built to predict the user satisfaction scores using these evaluation measures. The regression model is applied on a simulated dialog corpus trained from the above real user corpus, and show that the user satisfaction score estimated from the simulated dialogs do not significantly differ from the real users' satisfaction scores. These evaluation measures can then be used to assess the system performance based on the estimated user satisfaction. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306996 | RATING COMPUTATION ON SOCIAL NETWORKS - A social network may be used to determine a rating of a user with no prior history. The ratings for unrated nodes may be inferred from the existing ratings of users associated with the unrated node in either or both the underlying social network or other social networks. Additionally in some implementations, the effect of the rating of a rated node to an unrated node diminishes as the strength of their relationships decreases. In some cases, a social network may be modeled as an electrical network, and ratings may be modeled as voltages on the nodes of the social network, relationships in the social network may be modeled as connections in the electrical network, and in some cases the strength of relationships may be modeled as conductance of the connections. Ratings for nodes may be determined using Kirchhoff's Law and in some cases by solving a set of linear equations or by propagating positive and negative ratings using a random walk with absorbing states. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306997 | System and method for regulating fuel transactions - A method and system for regulating fuel transactions is provided. Fuel consumption data may be received corresponding to a first and second vehicle location. The difference between the first and second fuel consumption is determined to obtain an overall or combined fuel consumption value. In some examples, the fuel consumption data is transferred from a vehicle data system to a carrier data system located remotely from the vehicle. The data is processed at the carrier data system and the overall fuel consumption is transmitted to a fueling point to limit the amount of fuel transferred to the vehicle. In some arrangements, the limit may be adjusted to include additional factors such as additional distance to travel to the fueling point, anticipated distance to be traveled in subsequent legs of the trip, etc. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306998 | DESKTOP ACCESS FROM WITHIN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - An approach that provides desktop access from within a virtual universe is described. In one embodiment, there is a desktop invocation component configured to invoke a client computer desktop from within a virtual universe in response to receiving a request to access the client computer desktop from within the virtual universe. A rendering component is configured to generate a rendition of the client computer desktop in the virtual universe in response to the invoking thereof. An interaction component is configured to permit interaction with the client computer desktop from the rendition in the virtual universe. | 2009-12-10 |
20090306999 | CONVERSATIONAL PARALLELISM FOR MESSAGE PROCESSING - A system and method for processing messages in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is provided. A processing service generates a snapshot of a message queue, which contains a plurality of messages to be processed by the ERP system. Each message has an associated conversation, identified by a unique combination of an endpoint, channel, and subconversation identifier. For each conversation, the processing service determines whether messages of the conversation are to be processed in serial or in parallel, based on the subconversation identifier of the conversation. When the messages of the conversation are to be processed in serial, a task is created to process the messages serially. Alternatively, when the messages of the conversation are to be processed in parallel, a task is created for each of the messages. The messages of each task are processed serially by the task, while each task is executed in parallel with other tasks. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GLOBALLY MONITORING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS - A method for monitoring information of at least one unemployed aircraft components includes monitoring information relating to each of the unemployed aircraft components, transmitting the information from each location of each the unemployed aircraft components to a remotely located central control, and collecting the information in a computer-readable medium associated with the central control to thereby provide remote access of the information. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307001 | CRM CLIENT ARCHITECTURE CONDUCIVE TO INTERACTION WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS EXECUTING IN THE SAME CLIENT SYSTEM - A CRM client architecture conducive to interaction with other applications executing in a same client system. In an embodiment, an agent is displayed a toolbar in response to an incoming contact from a CRM server, and the user can select one of the options based on the buttons contained in the toolbar. When the user selects an appropriate button (e.g., accept option), the CRM client application is executed to facilitate the handling of the incoming contact by the agent. On a reject option being selected by the agent, a corresponding action (e.g., appropriate notification to a CRM server) may be performed. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307002 | System and Method for Communicating Targeted Health Related Data - The present invention provides a system and a method for communicating targeted health related data. The method includes targeting the consumers with an advertisement content and registering the consumers upon the selection of the advertisement. The registering includes capturing and storing the personal profile and health related data of the consumer and/or member(s) of this household. The method further includes processing the stored data to provide the consumer with the targeted content relevant to the consumer. The method further includes retrieving additional healthographic profiling of the consumer and the activity of the consumer to and further processing with the stored data to provide the consumer with an advertisement content targeted to the consumer and/or member(s) of his/her household. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307003 | SOCIAL ADVERTISEMENT NETWORK - Activity systems and methods for social networks are provided in which user activities are gathered and matched with advertisers and/or publishers and displayed by publishers. Paid links or units can also be attached to these displayed user activities to provide revenue to the user, advertiser and/or publisher. The gathering and matching may be enhanced by a message classifier and an optimizer. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307004 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MENTORED CREATION OF A PATENT APPLICATION - A computer implemented method for creating a patent application includes presenting a user with a questionnaire comprising at least one question relating to an invention and receiving answers to the questionnaire. The method also includes conducting a search based on the answers to the questionnaire and creating a preliminary search report based on references located in the search. The method further includes transmitting the preliminary search report to the user and receiving feedback of the preliminary search report from the user. The method still further comprises creating a detailed opinion report based on the feedback received from the user, transmitting the detailed opinion report to the user, and drafting patent application based on the detailed opinion report. The method further contemplates creating a patent application through filling in the blank, whether using a suggested answer templates question by question or by direct insertion of specific information into a patent application template. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307005 | APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED SORTATION AND DELIVERY POINT PROCESSING OF MILITARY MAIL - The invention seeks to improve the effectiveness of sortation and delivery point processing of military mail on behalf of the U.S. military. A method for distributing military mail includes the steps of compiling military unit and associated delivery code information into a computer searchable military address management system database which associates a military unit zip code with a current geographic location for that unit; obtaining military unit personnel change of address information from a number of sources including a national change of address database maintained by a federal postal service and input from a military unit to which a military mail recipient belongs, which information is compiled into a computer searchable military change of address database, which information includes change of address information more recent than change of address information reflected in a federal national change of address database; and using information from the military address management system database and the military change of address database to redirect incorrectly addressed mail pieces to a military mail recipient's current address. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307006 | METHOD OF COLLABORATIVE EVALUATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE CLNICAL DECISION ACTORS - A voting system employing individual healthcare actors is described wherein votes representing the relation between target measurements and actual measurements are aggregated and used to determine treatment of patients. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307007 | 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. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307008 | BLOOD INFUSION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - An blood infusion management system is described, including a scanner, a processor, and a display. The scanner derives scan data from a patient identifier and individual blood units and provides the scan data to the processor. The processor evaluates the scan data to ensure that the blood units match the patient identifier. If the blood units do not match, a blood infusion protocol is aborted. If the blood units match the patient identifier, then the blood infusion protocol is allowed to proceed. The blood infusion protocol requires at least two verification scans for any individual blood unit to achieve a transfusing status, and an additional scan of the patient identifier may be used to place the used blood units in a complete status. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307009 | WIDGET ASSOCIATED WITH NETWORKING PLATFORM - Systems and methods for enabling caregivers to communicate with care-receivers and share information and data are described. The care-receiver may use a family-oriented networking platform as it provides an easy and intuitive way to stay in touch with their families and healthcare professionals. The objective of the present invention is to allow caregivers to use their preferred means of digital communication to communicate with the care-receivers | 2009-12-10 |
20090307010 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY ASSOCIATING AN ASSESSOR WITH A MEDICAL ASSESSMENT TASK - In a method and system for automated association of an assessor with an assessment task (in particular an evaluation of an image data set) an assessor database is used that contains assessors as well as selection information associated with assessors and task information associated with assessment tasks. A medical assessment is automatically associated with an assessor using at least one decision rule, starting from the task information and with consideration of the relevant selection information. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307011 | Method of adjusting an insurance premium - The present invention broadly provides an improved method ( | 2009-12-10 |
20090307012 | DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROCESSING AND MONITORING DANGEROUS EVENTS - Proposed is a system ( | 2009-12-10 |
20090307013 | Data Tag Creation from a Physical Item Data Record to be Attached to a Physical Item - A item data management server having the capability to create a data tag from a physical item data record, where the physical item data record is based upon a physical item in the control of a user. The data tag creation facilitates the identification, maintenance and upkeep of the inventory of physical items, and also provides a feature for providing information relating to the physical items to the user/owner as well as to third-party service providers, such as insurers, and to governmental authorities, such as in the event of theft, to aid in the recovery of the physical items. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307014 | METHOD OF APPRAISING AND INSURING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - Methods are disclosed for using computers, computer programs, algorithms and computer networks and communications hardware and protocols to appraise the value of assets as well as protecting asset owners from the risk that other entities will value those assets differently. The methods disclosed include: Supplementing traditional valuation methods with other considerations that may affect the value of intellectual property assets. Using insurance type financial instruments to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements such as those imposed by the Sarbanes Oxley Act, the SEC, or the IRS. Using insurance type financial instruments to protect intellectual property asset owners from the risk that tribunals, regulatory agencies, or other entities will appraise intellectual property assets at a different value. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307015 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING AN INSURANCE SCHEME - A system for managing an insurance scheme includes an event module for defining at least one insured event for an insured person. A calculation module calculates at least one benefit to be paid out on the occurrence of the at least one insured event wherein the amount of the at least one benefit is adjusted depending on the number of dependents of the insured person. Finally, an awards module, on the occurrence of the at least one insured event, provides the calculated at least one benefit to the insured person. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307016 | Variable Annuity With a Guaranteed Minimum Accumulation Benefit Based on an External Index - Products, methods and system for guaranteeing the minimum accumulation benefit of an investment account owned by an entity are described. The steps of the guarantee include determining an external index or method to use to calculate the guarantee at the end of the defined investment period; allowing the owner of the investment account to select from available investment options; and at the end of the investment period crediting the investment account the difference of the current value of the investment account and the calculated minimum value of the investment account if the investment account has not increased in value above the calculated minimum. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307017 | APPAREL AND TEXTILE INSURANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - In an embodiment, a system and method is provided for a processor to manage an apparel and textile item insurance policy. At least one database stored on processor enabled media includes electronic apparel information and electronic policy information. The electronic apparel information represents at least one apparel or textile item, and the electronic policy information represents at least one insurance policy respectively associated with the at least one apparel or textile item. A communication device that is operatively connected to one or more processors receives first electronic apparel information from a first user computing device operated by a first user. The first electronic apparel information represents a particular apparel or textile item. The one or more processors retrieves from the database(s) electronic policy information representing a policy relating to the apparel or the textile item, and the processor(s) assign the policy to the apparel or textile item. Electronic claim information is received from the first computing device or a second user computing device. The electronic claim information represents a claim on the policy for the apparel or textile item. The one or more processors determines whether the policy for the apparel or textile item covers the claim. If the policy covers the claim, then the one or more processors transmits an electronic authorization notification. If the policy does not cover the claim, then the one or more processors transmits an electronic denial notification. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307018 | Systems and Methods to Present Search Results of Business Listings - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate the presentation of listings according to levels of user interest in the listings. For example, statistics generated from tracking user interactions with the listings and/or other parameters can be used to measure or estimate a level of current user interest in a listing. Listings in search results can be presented in an order according to the levels of current user interest in the listings. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307019 | Method of Booking Hotel Reservations - The present invention is a method for collecting same day hotel room availability based on unsold rooms or same day cancellations, and creating a database containing this information, wherein said database is then accessed over the internet by a website and searched by hotels, corporations or individuals looking to book a room on the same day. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307020 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD OF MANAGING AN INVENTORY OF SERVICE RESOURCES - In a method of managing an inventory of service resources, a plurality of criteria characterize service resources. The inventory of service resources is divided, based on the criteria, into plural elements, each comprising an exclusive subset of the service resources sharing common criteria. A plurality of groups is also created. Groups aggregate those of the elements that have at least one common criterion value. Groups and elements are offered for sale by the service provider. Elements belong in general to several groups. Service resources are, e.g., travel service or leisure resources such as airplane seats and hotel rooms. Customers or travel agents book in an element or in a group. The invention allows maximizing inventory availability while bookings are done by customers, on the basis of a specific request (in an element) or a more indefinite request (in a group). A specific inventory item is attributed later, i.e., at check-in. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307021 | METHOD FOR INVENTORY GOVERNANCE IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - The present invention is directed to inventory governance in a virtual universe. A method of inventory governance in a virtual universe (VU) includes: providing an inventory for a virtual universe (VU) resident; and providing means for governing at least one aspect of the inventory, the governing means comprising at least one of: an administrative interface for establishing an authorizing relationship between the VU resident and an authorizing entity; a filtering interface for administering at least one filter to the inventory; or a monitoring interface for providing capability to monitor at least one of: the VU resident or the inventory. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307022 | CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE COMPARATIVE LANDSCAPE TOOL - A capability assessment system provides a tailored evaluation with clear distinction between progressive companies and companies that offer more basic services. The system scores and rates the company across multiple categories according to a which capabilities are applicable to the company, and which of the applicable capabilities the company actually utilized. The system applies a unique rating and point mapping approach to the capabilities utilized by the company. The point mapping approach is configured to facilitate clear delineation between average and above average companies, as well as an identification of which capabilities, if utilized, can put a company ahead of its competition. This information assists a company in efficiently prioritizing and identifying which improvements to its rendered services will have the greater overall impact, benefiting both the customer and the company itself, and allowing the company to effectively recognize, meet, and exceeding customer expectations. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307023 | PRODUCT CUSTOMER SUPPORT IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - The present invention relates to virtual universe product customer support. A method for providing customer service in a virtual universe in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: determining that a real-world product may have a problem; collecting information associated with the product; analyzing the collected information at a support location service in the virtual universe to determine a land location within the virtual universe of a product support center for the product; and providing an avatar with a teleportation invitation to the product support center. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307024 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION ABOUT CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES OF AN ORGANIZATION - A system is provided for presenting information about waste reduction or resource preservation activities of one or more entities. The system may include at least one server resource that is programmed to generate a presentation for an online medium. The presentation may provide at least a first information item that is indicative of a determination of a reduction by a given entity in either of an identified waste byproduct or a resource consumption. The reduction is a result of one or more kinds of a conservation activity that is performed by one or more individuals in the organization. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307025 | Attrition Warning and Control System - An attrition warning and control system informs an employer as to the risk of attrition for an employee. The employee is assigned a discrete attrition category. The discrete attrition category is determined from an employee satisfaction behavior. The employee satisfaction behavior may be categorized according to its behavior type. Portal logic executed by the attrition warning and control system generates employee team attrition risk reports for employee teams. The portal logic also builds project team attrition risk reports from the employee team attrition risk reports. Reporting logic executed by the attrition warning and control system delivers the discrete attrition category, employee satisfaction behavior, the employee team attrition risk reports, and the project team attrition risk reports through an authorized connection via a communication interface. | 2009-12-10 |
20090307026 | PRIORITY-BASED SYSTEM FOR NETTING AVAILABLE COVERAGE - A method is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including receiving standard MRP input data, including supply rules. Demand priority data may also be received to provide a business ranking of the independent demands. The MRP input data and demand priority data may be transformed into a format usable by an implosion engine and a pegging solver. Such transformation may include providing artificial MRP input data for each of the components. The transformed MRP input data may be processed with the implosion engine and the pegging solver to provide pegged implosion data. A pegged supply shortfall for a component may then be calculated based on the pegged implosion data. Specifically, consumption of an artificial component may represent a supply shortfall for the component. The demand priority data for the independent demand that pegs to the supply shortfall may provide the prioritized shortfall for that component. | 2009-12-10 |