52nd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100332176 | ONLINE SOURCELESS ENERGY CALIBRATION OF MULTIPLE SPECTRAL DETECTORS - An instrument for performing measurements downhole includes: a neutron source; at least one gamma ray detector equipped for discriminating an energy of an incident gamma photon; and an energy calibration target disposed relative to the neutron source and the at least one gamma ray detector. A method and computer program product for calibrating the instrument is provided. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332177 | TEST ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A test access control apparatus includes test access mechanism (TAM) buses and an extended IEEE 1149.1 Test Access Port (TAP) Controller. The TAM buses support memory built-in-self-test (BIST) circuit for the memory known-good-die (KGD) test, scan chains for the logic KGD test; and through-silicon-via (TSV) chains that are configured to conduct the TSV test that verifies any defect in vertical interconnects between any two chip layers of the stacked chip device. The TAP Controller is coupled to the TAM buses and is configured to control the memory KGD test, the logic KGD test and the TSV test between two chip layers. A cost-effective connection or configuration of test access control apparatus in 3D-IC is also present. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a test access control method includes a yield-concerned test methodology for 3D-IC, and an integrated flow of test access control apparatus supporting heterogeneous test protocols of SOC | 2010-12-30 |
20100332178 | Specific Gravity Measuring Tool - A specific gravity measuring tool comprises a portable handheld housing supporting a plurality of electrodes at a fixed known spacing thereon and a display for displaying a determined specific gravity thereon. The electrodes are arranged to be penetrated into the object to be measured, for example a potato. The electrodes include a first pair across which an electrical potential is arranged to be generated, and a second pair across which an electrical potential is arranged to be sensed. A processor of the tool is arranged to calculate electrical impedance using the electrical potential generated across said first pair of the electrodes, the electrical potential sensed at said second pair of electrodes, and the known spacing between the electrodes so that the specific gravity can be determined using a predetermined relationship between electrical impedance and specific gravity. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332179 | Wireless interface for a plurality of transducers - A wireless interface system can interface with any one of a plurality of transducers of different types, such as pressure sensors, temperature sensors, current probes and so on. In the system, all such transducers employ identical connectors with a common connecting scheme. In this manner, any transducer can be connected to a wireless interface which has the same input connection scheme. When the wireless interface is connected to the transducer, a rechargeable battery, which is associated with the wireless interface, is activated. The wireless interface then determines the type of transducer being utilized and provides sufficient circuitry as well as determining the requirements of the connected transducer. In this manner, the wireless interface, besides recognizing and determining the type of transducer, can determine the range of the sensor, and depending on the type and range of the sensor, can provide specific circuitry to be activated to supply power and to read data from the sensor via common output pins. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332180 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING ONE OR MORE ROTATIONAL SPEEDS OF A TURBOCHARGING DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A method is described for determining information about a rotational speed of a compressor, in particular a turbocharger, by providing a measuring signal, in particular a microwave measuring signal, which is directed at a compressor impeller of the compressor, so that the measuring signal is reflected on revolving blades of the compressor impeller, detecting the measuring signal reflected by one or more blades, and determining the information about the rotational speed as a function of the reflected measuring signal. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332181 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ANGULAR DIFFERENCES ON A POTENTIALLY MOVING OBJECT - A boresight alignment system is disclosed. The system comprises a frame movement sensor operable to determine a reference position on an object, a frame alignment sensor operable to determine a first boresight position on the object, a data acquisition processing unit in communication with the frame movement and frame alignment sensors and a display processing unit in communication with the data acquisition processing unit. The display processing unit is operable to display near real time attitude data measured by the frame movement and frame alignment sensors. The data acquisition processing unit comprises program instructions to correct for angular differences with respect to a reference position. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332182 | OPERATION DETERMINING SYSTEM, OPERATION DETERMINING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An operation determining system includes: a position measuring unit that measures a position of a moving object with time; and an operation determining unit that determines that there is an operation of the object in a detection area when an intersecting angle between entering and exiting vectors of the object with respect to the detection area, the intersecting angle being calculated based on the position of the object measured by the position measuring unit, is equal to or higher than a certain value. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332183 | DYE-DOPED NANOPARTICLES, A METHOD OF MANUFACTURE OF THE SAME, AND A METHOD OF DETERMINING A PERCENTAGE WEIGHT OF A DYE WHICH YIELDS A REQUIRED RELATIVE FLUORESCENT INTENSITY FROM A DYE-DOPED NANOPARTICLE - The invention provides dye-doped nanoparticles comprising silica doped with molecules of a near infra red dye comprising 4,5-Benzo-1′-ethyl-3,3,3′,3′-tetramethyl-1-(4-sulfobutyl)indodicarbocyanin-5′-acetic acid N-succinimidyl ester, and dye-doped nanoparticles derivatised with a functional group. The invention further provides a method of manufacture of dye-doped nanoparticles comprising the steps of preparing a dye mixture by dissolving a dye in the surfactant hexanol and conjugating the dye with an organosilane, forming a microemulsion of water droplets in oil, adding the dye mixture to the microemulsion, and adding a source of silicon and a catalyst to the microemulsion, which causes growth of silica nanoparticles in the water droplets of the microemulsion which silica nanoparticles are doped with the dye. The invention further provides, in a dye-doped nanoparticle, a method of determining a % weight of the dye which yields a required relative fluorescent intensity from the nanoparticle. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332184 | DETERMINING AN ENCODING TYPE OF DATA - Implementations of the present disclosure provide for determining an encoding type of data. Implementations include receiving a data set from a computer-readable storage medium, decoding the data set using a first encoding type to provide a first plurality of numbers, generating a first distribution based on the first plurality of numbers, decoding the data set using a second encoding type to provide a second plurality of numbers, and generating a second distribution based on the second plurality of numbers. An actual encoding type of the data set is determined based on the first distribution, the second distribution and an expected distribution, and the data set is processed based on the actual encoding type. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332185 | ANALYTICAL BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FOR MONITORING TELEMETRIC SIGNALS - Some embodiments provide a system that analyzes telemetry data from a monitored system. During operation, the system obtains the telemetry data as a set of telemetric signals from the monitored system and groups the telemetry data into one or more clusters of correlated telemetric signals from the telemetric signals. Next, the system increases a bandwidth associated with monitoring the telemetric signals. To increase the bandwidth, the system omits one or more of the correlated telemetric signals from each of the clusters during sampling of the telemetric signals and estimates the omitted correlated telemetric signals by applying a nonlinear, nonparametric regression technique to the sampled telemetric signals. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332186 | Probabilistic Estimation of a Time Interval Between Periodic Events Disturbing a Signal - The embodiments of the invention disclose a method for a probabalistical determination of a time interval between events, wherein the events periodically disturb a signal. The method determines, as a function of time, probabilities of occurrences of the events based on values of the signal, wherein the signal is Jittered, and determines, based on the probabilities of the occurrences of the events, probabilities of correspondence of a set of possible time intervals to the time interval between the events producing a set of probabilities of the possible time intervals suitable for determining the time interval between the events. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332187 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR POWER PLANT PERFORMANCE RECONCILIATION - A method and system for determining the overall performance of a power plant are provided. The system includes a plurality of components includes a processor configured to generate a first reference model of the power plant and generate a first measured model of the power plant. The processor is further configured to determine the performance impact of the at least one of the plurality of components of the power plant on the overall thermal performance of the power plant, normalize the performance impact to design conditions, and output at least one of the normalized performance impact on overall plant performance. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332188 | MOBILE IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM - A mobile image capture system, a system comprising: a sensing unit for attaching to a vehicle, the sensing unit having a camera constructed and arranged to view a participant on the vehicle, the camera capturing at least one image; and processing electronics for storing data representing the captured at least one image or for relaying data representing the captured at least one image to a computer or a network. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332189 | EMBEDDED MICROCONTROLLERS CLASSIFYING SIGNATURES OF COMPONENTS FOR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE IN COMPUTER SERVERS - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that analyzes data from a computer system. During operation, the system obtains the sensor data from a component in the computer system using a set of sensors. Next, the system transmits the sensor data to a microcontroller unit (MCU) coupled to the sensors and stores the sensor data in internal memory of the MCU. Finally, the system assesses the integrity of the component by analyzing the sensor data using a pattern-recognition apparatus in the MCU. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332190 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING SENSOR OBSERVATION DATA - An apparatus and method for notifying observation data to an application program which includes a memory which stores observation data received from a sensor and time information corresponding to the observation data are provided. The apparatus includes an evaluation-data calculating unit which calculates amount-of-change evaluation data based on the received newest observation data and former observation data notified to the application program, a determination unit which determines whether the amount-of-change evaluation data is greater than or equal to reference change amount, and a notification unit which notifies the observation data received from the sensor to the application program when the determination unit determines that the amount-of-change evaluation data is greater than or equal to the reference change amount. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332191 | SAMPLE TESTING APPARATUS - A sample testing apparatus comprising: a first storing section for storing identification information of an operator in association with first or second attribute information; an identification information receiving section for receiving an input of the identification information of the operator; a testing section for obtaining a test result by testing a sample; a second storing section for storing the test result of the sample so as to be linked with the received identification information; an operation end instruction receiving section for receiving an operation end instruction by the operator; and a deleting section for deleting from the second storing section the test result which is stored so as to be linked with the identification information received by the identification information receiving section in the case in which the received identification information is associated with the second attribute information when the operation end instruction is received. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332192 | Method and Tools for Self-Describing Data Processing - A data set can self-describe a set of data specifications that describe the physical measurements, spatial representation, and file format of data stored in the data set. A data processing tool can self-describe a set of input specifications of the physical measurements, spatial representation, and file storage format of data that can be accepted for processing by the tool. Fully automated methods for coordinating the processing and analysis of the data set by the data processing tool are presented which ensure that the data input to a data processing tool represents the proper physical measurements, has the proper spatial representation, and is in the proper file format to permit the data processing tool to produce logically correct output. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332193 | Method of Multi-segments Modeling Bond Wire Interconnects with 2D Simulations in High Speed, High Density Wire Bond Packages - A method for modeling bond wires in an IC package for predicting noise effects generated by electromagnetic coupling in complex bond wire configurations. A look-up table of equivalent LC circuit models for the bond wires is generated that accurately predicts the effects of the bond wire circuitry of a signal transmission system. Switch and mirror techniques are applied to reduce the bond wire configurations necessary to simulate. The method includes: setting parameters related to the IC package layout of groups of bond wires; sub-dividing each group of bond wires into regions, each including a portion of the bond wire or its corresponding pad, and generating dissection planes for the regions consisting of the bond wires; performing a 3D simulation on the regions consisting of the corresponding pads, and a 2D simulation for each dissection plane; constructing equivalent circuit models for groups of bond wires and corresponding pads based on the 3D and 2D simulations results; inputting the equivalent circuit models into a circuit simulator to measure the noise effects; and modifying the layout geometry to meet noise targets. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332194 | IMPLANT TRAINING SYSTEM - An implant training system based on a biomechanical modeling system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the implant training system includes a processor configured to load and execute instructions from an implant simulation module and the implant simulation module configured to provide a preloaded case representing a model patient to a user, receive input from the user to adjust the preloaded case to represent a particular patient, and provide outcome information for using an implant in the particular patient. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332195 | MULTI-PURPOSE OPTIMIZATION DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A design support apparatus includes a parameter set generation unit configured to obtain a plurality of types of parameters and sequentially generates parameter sets while sequentially changing each parameter, a design object shape data generation unit configured to generate design object shape data based on the parameter set and initial shape data representing an initial shape of the design object shape, a geometric penalty function value calculation unit configured to calculate a geometric penalty function value indicating suitability of geometric characteristics of the design object shape based on the design object shape data, an objective function calculation control unit configured to determine whether or not the parameter set is used to calculate an objective function based on the geometric penalty function value and an optimal value of the objective function, and an objective function calculation unit configured to calculate the objective function based on the parameter set. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332196 | ADAPTIVE 3D SCANNING - The present invention relates to adaptive 3D scanning wherein a scan sequence for obtaining full geometrical coverage of a physical object are created automatically and specifically for the physical object, by using a method and a system for producing a 3D computer model of a physical object, wherein the method comprises the following steps providing a scanner system, said scanner system comprising a scanner, and a computer connectable to and/or integrated in said scanner, said computer comprising a virtual model of said scanner, entering shape information of the physical object into the computer, creating in said computer a visibility function based on said virtual model and the shape information, said visibility function being capable of evaluating the coverage of areas of interest of the physical object by at least one predetermined scan sequence, establishing at least one scan sequence based on the evaluation of the visibility function, performing a scan of the physical object using said at least one scan sequence, and obtaining a 3D computer model of the physical object. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332197 | SYSTEM FOR BIOMEDICAL IMPLANT CREATION AND PROCUREMENT - Automated systems and methods for creating and obtaining devices, including biomedical implants. Systems can have a surgeon's device, an automated platform, and a server. The surgeon's device can send a request for a template of a biomedical implant, and can access tools to edit the template. The automated platform can receive the edited template, and can generate a response. The response can include translating the edited template into a design for a biomedical implant. The response can further include generating a notice if the edited template falls outside of an acceptable range, or if the edited template is similar to the design of a standard biomedical implant. There can also be provided a manufacturing facility that can manufacture the implant and send the implant to the surgeon. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332198 | Method For Obtaining Resistivity From Controlled Source Electromagnetic Data - Method for generating a three-dimensional resistivity data volume for a subsurface region from an initial resistivity model and measured electromagnetic field data from an electromagnetic survey of the region, where the initial resistivity model is preferably obtained by performing multiple ID inversions of the measured data [ | 2010-12-30 |
20100332199 | NOISE REDUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR MONITORING ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS - One embodiment provides a system that analyzes a target electromagnetic signal radiating from a monitored system. During operation, the system monitors the target electromagnetic signal using a set of antennas to obtain a set of received target electromagnetic signals from the monitored system. Next, the system calculates a weighted mean of the received target electromagnetic signals using a first pattern-recognition model. The system then subtracts the received target electromagnetic signals from the weighted mean of the received target electromagnetic signals to obtain a set of noise-reduced signals for the monitored system. Finally, the system assesses the integrity of the monitored system by analyzing the noise-reduced signals using a second pattern-recognition model. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332200 | System and method for flame blow-off determination - Systems and Methods for determining flame blow-off conditions are disclosed. These methods provide efficient and reliable tools for determining the lean blow-off conditions for a variety of combustion system. By utilizing localized characteristics within a flame-holding region a user is enabled to assess the likelihood of flame blow-off with fine granularity within a combustor. The flame blow-out determination may be carried out with the aid of an output representation that provides a contour of likely blow-off cells within a combustor region. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332201 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTIVE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE OF PROCESSING CHAMBERS - A method for assessing health status of a processing chamber is provided. The method includes executing a recipe. The method also includes receiving processing data from a set of sensors during execution of the recipe. The method further includes analyzing the processing data utilizing a set of multi-variate predictive models. The method yet also includes generating a set of component wear data values. The method yet further includes comparing the set of component wear data values against a set of useful life threshold ranges. The method moreover includes generating a warning if the set of component wear data values is outside of the set of useful life threshold ranges. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332202 | PARALLEL SIMULATION OF GENERAL ELECTRICAL AND MIXED-DOMAIN CIRCUITS - A new method for simulation of general electrical circuits on parallel computing platforms is disclosed. Parallel simulation of general time-domain circuits that are represented by nonlinear/linear differential algebraic equations is accomplished by partitioning them into smaller subcircuits via a novel combination of the companion form representation of the given circuit and an efficient form of node splitting, during Newton Raphson iterations, at any time point. The new invention formulates the interface vectors between partitions, through purely binary vectors, leading to a high degree of parallelism, scalability and reduced computational and communication costs for synchronizing the solutions between various partitions. Parallel platforms considered can be diverse such as (including but not restricted to) multicore CPUs, distributed systems of computers. The new invention also provides for scalable parallel simulation of mixed-domain formulations, such as (including but not restricted to), integrated circuits, electronic packages, PCBs, electromagnetic modules, MEMS and optical components etc. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332203 | Optical Method For the Characterization of Laterally-Patterned Samples in Integrated Circuits - Disclosed is a method for characterizing a sample having a structure disposed on or within the sample, comprising the steps of applying a first pulse of light to a surface of the sample for creating a propagating strain pulse in the sample, applying a second pulse of light to the surface so that the second pulse of light interacts with the propagating strain pulse in the sample, sensing from a reflection of the second pulse a change in optical response of the sample, and relating a time of occurrence of the change in optical response to at least one dimension of the structure. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332204 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING WELL DISPOSAL CAPACITY - A method for determining a maximum volume of drilling cuttings disposal in a formation, the method including inputting formation parameters into a simulator, simulating a formation during waste injection based on the formation parameters, determining a net pressure based on the simulating, determining a closure pressure increase based on the simulating, calculating a disposal volume based on the net pressure and the closure pressure, calculating a time interval of waste injection based on the calculated injection volume, and outputting at least one of the disposal volume and the time interval is disclosed. A method of optimizing a waste injection process, the method including simulating a formation based on input parameters, determining a closure pressure increase per unit slurry volume based on the simulation, calculating a disposal capacity of the selected formation, and outputting the disposal capacity is also disclosed. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332205 | METHOD OF MODIFIED FACIES PROPORTIONS UPON HISTORY MATCHING OF A GEOLOGICAL MODEL - A method of modifying a geological model representative of an underground reservoir is disclosed which respects average proportions of the lithologic facies imposed by a production data calibration process which has application to petroleum reservoir development. A geographical zone Z is defined within the geological model and an average proportion in zone Z allowing the production data to be calibrated is determined for k facies, with an optimization process. The proportions of these facies are modified using a block indicator cokriging method constrained by the average proportions to be respected. A new geological model constrained by the modified facies proportions is simulated and the development of the underground medium is optimized by the simulated model. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332206 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING LEAKAGE DISTRIBUTION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN - A method is provided for simulating leakage distribution of integrated circuit design. The method analyzes a layout of the integrated circuit design to understand the groups of dimensions of the transistors and capacitors of the layout, and then simulates a leakage distribution of the layout resulted from possible fabrication process variations. Therefore, designer can know the leakage distribution of the integrated circuit design before the integrated circuit design is actually fabricated, and modify the layout if a leakage failure happens to the layout. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332207 | VIA IMPEDANCE MATCHING METHOD - A via impedance matching method is provided. Firstly, a circuit model of a via in the PCB is created, which comprises a low pass filter circuit composed of two capacitors connected in parallel and an inductor connected between the two capacitors. Then, S parameters of the via by analyzing the circuit model is obtained and converted to an ABCD matrix, and parameters of an ideal low pass filter model is obtained by equaling an ABCD matrix of the ideal low pass filter model to the ABCD matrix with the S parameters. Then, impedance matching parameters are calculated according to the parameters of the ideal low pass filter model. Finally, proper capacitors and inductors are selected and disposed on the PCB to match the via. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332208 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EMULATION OF PROCESS VARIATION INDUCED IN SPLIT PROCESS SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS - Predictive Split Lot Emulator, and methods simulating integrated circuit performance variations, before IC fabrication. The emulator receives a split lot parameter, maps the split lot parameter onto an IC element model, and transforms the IC element into a predictive IC element model. The emulator uses the predictive model to determine simulated performance characteristic of the IC element model. Also, a predictive split lot analyzer, a CAD simulation system, and a PDK including the emulator. IC simulating methods include choosing a Split Condition from a Split Table; a Predictive Split Lot Emulator receiving the Condition, determining a Split Parameter Condition Perturbation, mapping the Perturbation into a Model Parameter Perturbation for an IC element, and storing the Model Perturbation for an IC element into a Model Parameter Perturbation Library. The Perturbation Library emulates IC element performance characteristic in a Split Condition. Determining, mapping, and emulating are executed prior to integrated circuit fabrication. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332209 | Method of combined simulation of the software and hardware parts of a computer system, and associated system - This invention relates to a method for simulation of a computer system ( | 2010-12-30 |
20100332210 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING OBJECT PROPERTIES AND EVENTS USING SIMILARITY-BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND MODELING - Method and apparatus for predicting properties of a target object, in particular, one of an origin and a source, comprise application of a search manager for analyzing parameters of a plurality of databases for a plurality of objects, the databases comprising an electrical, electromagnetic, acoustic spectral database (ESD), a micro-body assemblage database (MAD) and a database of image data whereby the databases store data objects containing identifying features, source information and information on site properties and context including time and frequency varying data. The method comprises application of multivariate statistical analysis and principal component analysis in combination with content-based image retrieval for providing two-dimensional attributes of three dimensional objects, for example, via preferential image segmentation using a tree of shapes and to predict further properties of objects by means of k-means clustering and related methods. By way of example, a fire event and residual objects may be located and qualified such that, for example, properties of the residual objects may be qualified, for example, via black body radiation and micro-body databases including charcoal assemblages. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332211 | PROGRAMMABLE AND RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE FOR REAL POWER SYSTEM EMULATION - An apparatus is provided for emulation of a power system. The apparatus includes a plurality of programmable elements which are selectively connectable to one another. Each programmable element includes at least two elements selected from the group consisting of a generator element, a line element and a load element. A programmable switch element is operable to selectively connect the at least two elements of each programmable element to one another, and to selectively connect the programmable element to one or more other programmable elements. A system, which incorporates the apparatus, is also provided for emulating a power system incorporating such apparatus. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332212 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SLEEP AND WAKE OF COMPUTER DEVICES - A system apparatus and method for emulating a computing device are provided. Operational parameters of a computing device may be obtained and provided to an emulating computing device. An emulating device may emulate an emulated computing device. While being emulated, a computing device may operate in a reduced functionality mode. Emulation of a computing device may be transparent to client or other machines associated with an emulated computing device. Conditions requiring a termination of an emulation of a computing device may be detected. Upon detecting conditions requiring a termination of an emulation of a computing device, operational or other parameters may be provided to the emulated computing device and the emulated computing device may assume full, or other, operational mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332213 | DEBUGGING SYSTEM, EMULATOR, AND DEBUGGING METHOD - A debug system includes: a microcomputer mounted on a target system; an emulator configured to execute emulation of the microcomputer based on a user program embedded in the microcomputer; and a computer connected with the emulator in radio communication and configured to instruct start of the emulation and to execute a debugging operation of the microcomputer based on a result of the emulation. The emulator includes: a control section configured to execute the emulation of the microcomputer based on control data from the computer; a radio communication state monitoring section configured to monitor a state of the radio communication between the computer and the emulator when the emulation is performed; and a storage section configured to store substitution control data. The control section acquires the substitution control data from the storage section, when the radio communication is in a non-communicable state, and controls the microcomputer based on the substitution control data such that the target system is set to a predetermined state. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332214 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK TRANSMISION OF SUBTITLES - A system and method for storing, associating and displaying transcriptions and translations of text presented in video segments. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING TEXT INPUT - A method includes detecting a group of characters input into an electronic device, the group of characters including a sequence of character sub-groups that are input in a first configuration, and converting the group of characters as a whole, from the first configuration to a second configuration such that a given character sub-group in the sequence of character sub-groups is converted at least by analyzing other character sub-groups that both precede and follow the given character sub-group in the sequence of character sub-groups. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332216 | METHOD FOR TRANSLATING COMPUTER GENERATED LOG FILES - A method of translating a computer generated log output message from a first language to a second language, including receiving a log output containing a plurality of messages in a first language and matching words and phrases in the log output messages to pre-established codes in a matched message index. Ambiguous matches are resolved by removing codes matched to ones of the words and phrases that have overlap with words and phrases matched to different codes. The codes in the matched message index are translated into a second language different than the first language to a corresponding second log output message in the second language and then the second log output message is output in the second language. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332217 | Method for text improvement via linguistic abstractions - This invention provides hierarchical, gradual and iterative methods, systems, and software for improving and correcting natural language text. The methods comprise the steps of applying natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to a corpus of sentences so as to abstract each sentence; applying scoring and linguistic annotation to each abstract sentence; applying NLP algorithms to abstract input sentences; applying search algorithms to match an abstract input sentence to at least one abstract corpus sentence; and applying NLP algorithms to adapt said matched abstract corpus sentence to the input sentence. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332218 | KEYWORD BASED MESSAGE HANDLING - An apparatus comprising a controller, wherein said controller is configured to display a message text, receive an input indicating a keyword; determine an associated operation and to generate a response message according to the associated operation. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING TEXT PASSAGE SIMILARITY - According to one embodiment of the invention, a method classifying a number of noun phrases in a first text passage and a second text passage into a number of classifications. The method also includes determining a similarity between a noun phrase from the first text passage and a noun phase from the second text passage for each of the noun phrases of a same classification. Additionally, a similarity between a sentence from the first text passage and a sentence from the second text passage is determined for each of the sentences in the first and second text passages based on similarities between the noun phrases. The method also includes determining a similarity between the first text passage and the second text passage based on a similarity between sentences. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332220 | Conversation Recording with Real-Time Notification for Users of Communication Terminals - A recording device provides conversation recording with real-time notification between users of communication terminals engaged in a conversation. The recording device provides a recording start notification to a second communication terminal in response to receiving an initiate recording request from a first communication terminal, and initiates recording of the conversation. The recording device terminates recording of the conversation in response to receiving a terminate recording request from the first communication terminal, provides a recording stop notification to the second communication terminal, and saves the recorded conversation to a file in a file storage medium. The recording start and recording stop notifications can be either audible or electronic notifications. The first communication terminal may be muted prior to providing a notification, and un-muted subsequent to the notification. The recording device may obtain permission from the second communication terminal to record the conversation. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332221 | ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREOF - It is possible to improve quality of a decoding signal in a band spread for estimating a high band from a low band of a decoding signal. A first layer encoding unit ( | 2010-12-30 |
20100332222 | INTELLIGENT CLASSIFICATION METHOD OF VOCAL SIGNAL - An intelligent classification method is proposed. The method extracts vocal features from the temporal domain, spectral domain and statistical features for measuring the vocal signal. The measured result is grouped by comparing with the trained data with single voiced source, and then different voices can be separated from the vocal signal to be classified. The vocal features are evaluated from temporal domain and spectral domain and the statistical features, and the method can improve the accuracy of the voice classification. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332223 | AUDIO DECODING DEVICE AND POWER ADJUSTING METHOD - Provided is an audio decoding device capable of obtaining a preferable synthesized sound with a stable sound volume. The audio decoding device includes: a post filter ( | 2010-12-30 |
20100332224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING TEXT TO AUDIO AND TACTILE OUTPUT - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises a controller configured to process punctuated text data, and to identify punctuation in said punctuated text data; and an output unit configured to generate audio output corresponding to said punctuated text data, and to generate tactile output corresponding to said identified punctuation. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332225 | TRANSCRIPT ALIGNMENT - Some general aspects relate to systems and methods for media processing. One aspect, for example, relates to a method for aligning multimedia recording with a transcript. A group of search terms are formed from the transcript, with each search term being associated with a location within the transcript. Putative locations of the search terms are determined in a time interval of the multimedia recording. For each search term, zero or more putative locations are determined and, for at least some of the search terms, multiple putative locations are determined in the time interval of the multimedia recording. According to a first sequencing constraint, a first representation of a group of sequences each of a subset of the putative locations of the search terms is formed. A second representation of a group of sequences each of a subset of the search terms is formed. Using the first and the second representations, the time interval of the multimedia recording is partially aligned with the transcript. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332226 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a specific content and another content associated with the specific content can be quickly searched using a user's voice. The present invention includes inputting a voice for a search for a specific content provided to the mobile terminal via a microphone, analyzing a meaning of the inputted voice, searching a memory for at least one content to which a voice name having a meaning associated with the analyzed voice is tagged, and displaying the searched at least one content. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332227 | AUTOMATIC DISCLOSURE DETECTION - A method of detecting pre-determined phrases to determine compliance quality is provided. The method includes determining whether at least one of an event or a precursor event has occurred based on a comparison between pre-determined phrases and a communication between a sender and a recipient in a communications network, and rating the recipient based on the presence of the pre-determined phrases associated with the event or the presence of the pre-determined phrases associated with the precursor event in the communication. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332228 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING MEMORY LOCALITY FOR REAL-TIME SPEECH RECOGNITION - According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to buffer N audio frames of a plurality of audio frames associated with an audio signal, pre-compute scores for a subset of context dependent models (CDMs), and perform a graphical model search associated with the N audio frames where a score of a context independent model (CIM) associated with a CDM is used in lieu of a score for the CDM when a score for the CDM is needed and has not been pre-computed. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332229 | APPARATUS CONTROL BASED ON VISUAL LIP SHARE RECOGNITION - An information processing apparatus that includes an image acquisition unit to acquire a temporal sequence of frames of image data, a detecting unit to detect a lip area and a lip image from each of the frames of the image data, a recognition unit to recognize a word based on the detected lip images of the lip areas, and a controller to control an operation at the information processing apparatus based on the word recognized by the recognition unit. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332230 | PHONETIC DISTANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - Phonetic distances are empirically measured as a function of speech recognition engine recognition error rates. The error rates are determined by comparing a recognized speech file with a reference file. The phonetic distances can be normalized to earlier measurements. The phonetic distances/error rates can also be used to improve speech recognition engine grammar selection, as an aid in language training and evaluation, and in other applications. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332231 | LEXICAL ACQUISITION APPARATUS, MULTI DIALOGUE BEHAVIOR SYSTEM, AND LEXICAL ACQUISITION PROGRAM - A lexical acquisition apparatus includes: a phoneme recognition section | 2010-12-30 |
20100332232 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UPDATING STATUS OF SYNTHESIS FILTERS - A method and device for updating statuses of synthesis filters are provided. The method includes: exciting a synthesis filter corresponding to a first encoding rate by using an excitation signal of the first encoding rate, outputting reconstructed signal information, and updating status information of the synthesis filter and a synthesis filter corresponding to a second encoding rate. In the present disclosure, the status of the synthesis filter corresponding to the current rate and the statuses of the synthesis filters at other rates are updated. Thus, synchronization between the statuses of the synthesis filters corresponding to different rates at the encoding terminal may be realized, thereby facilitating the consistency of the reconstructed signals of the encoding and decoding terminals when the encoding rate is switched, and improving the quality of the reconstructed signal of the decoding terminal. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332233 | Battery Management System And Method - A battery-management method is performed by a battery-operated device. The method includes allocating a first portion of a battery capacity to a first function and a second portion of the battery capacity to a second function. The method further includes simultaneously displaying a first indicator relating to the first portion of the battery capacity and a second indicator relating to the second portion of the battery capacity. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332234 | Dynamically Extending The Speech Prompts Of A Multimodal Application - Dynamically extending the speech prompts of a multimodal application including receiving, by the prompt generation engine, a media file having a metadata container; retrieving, by the prompt generation engine from the metadata container, a speech prompt related to content stored in the media file for inclusion in the multimodal application; and modifying, by the prompt generation engine, the multimodal application to include the speech prompt. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332235 | INTELLIGENT HOME AUTOMATION - An intelligent home automation system answers questions of a user speaking “natural language” located in a home. The system is connected to, and may carry out the user's commands to control, any circuit, object, or system in the home. The system can answer questions by accessing the Internet. Using a transducer that “hears” human pulses, the system may be able to identify, announce and keep track of anyone entering or staying in the home or participating in a conversation, including announcing their identity in advance. The system may interrupt a conversation to implement specific commands and resume the conversation after implementation. The system may have extensible memory structures for term, phrase, relation and knowledge, question answering routines and a parser analyzer that uses transformational grammar and a modified three hypothesis analysis. The parser analyzer can be dormant unless spoken to. The system has emergency modes for prioritization of commands. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332236 | VOICE-TRIGGERED OPERATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A system and method operating features of telecommunications, audio headsets, speakers, and other communications and electronic devices, such as mobile telephones, personal digital assistants and cameras, using voice-activated, voice-trigged or voice-enabled operation. In accordance with an embodiment, the electronic device is capable of operating in an idle mode, in which the device listens for verbal commands from a user. When the user speaks or otherwise issues a command, the device recognizes the command and responds accordingly, including, depending on the context in which the command is issued, following a series of prompts to guide the user through operating one or more features of the device, such as accessing menus or other features. In accordance with an embodiment, this allows the user to operate the device in a hands-free mode if desired. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332237 | SOUND QUALITY CORRECTION APPARATUS, SOUND QUALITY CORRECTION METHOD AND SOUND QUALITY CORRECTION PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a sound quality correction apparatus calculates various feature parameters for identifying the speech signal and the music signal from an input audio signal and, based on the various feature parameters thus calculated, also calculates a speech/music identification score indicating to which of the speech signal and the music signal the input audio signal is close to. Then, based on this speech/music identification score, the correction strength of each of plural sound quality correctors is controlled to execute different types of the sound quality correction processes on the input audio signal. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332238 | Method and System for Lossless Value-Location Encoding - A method of encoding samples in a digital signal is provided that includes receiving a frame of N samples of the digital signal, determining L possible distinct data values in the N samples, determining a reference data value in the L possible distinct data values and a coding order of L−1 remaining possible distinct data values, wherein each of the L−1 remaining possible distinct data values is mapped to a position in the coding order, decomposing the N samples into L−1 coding vectors based on the coding order, wherein each coding vector identifies the locations of one of the L−1 remaining possible distinct data values in the N samples, and encoding the L−1 coding vectors. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332239 | Apparatus and method of encoding audio data and apparatus and method of decoding encoded audio data - An apparatus and method encode audio data, and an apparatus and method decode encoded audio data. An audio data encoding apparatus includes: a scalable encoding unit dividing audio data into a plurality of layers, representing the audio data in predetermined numbers of bits in each of the plurality of layers, and encoding a lower layer prior to encoding an upper layer and an upper bit of each layer prior to encoding a lower bit of each layer; an SBR encoding unit generating spectral band replication (SBR) data that has information with respect to audio data in a frequency band of frequencies equal to or greater than a predetermined frequency among the audio data to be encoded, and encoding the SBR data; and a bitstream production unit generating a bitstream using the encoded SBR data and the encoded audio data corresponding to a predetermined bitrate. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332240 | DECENTRALIZED ACCOUNT DIGEST USING SIGNED ELECTRONIC RECEIPTS - Decentralized storage of electronic receipts for sharing transaction histories. Merchants generate and digitally sign the electronic receipts for transactions involving electronic content products. The electronic receipts for a user are stored by the user. The user later presents other entities with the electronic receipt as proof of the transaction. The merchants also maintain “graveyard lists,” or lists of cancelled transactions that are used by other merchants to determine whether a particular transaction is still valid. For example, if the electronic content product associated with the particular transaction has been returned or exchanged, the particular transaction is added to the list of cancelled transactions. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332241 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND REPORTING TO AN OPERATOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION FROM A VEHICLE - A method and system for monitoring greenhouse gas emission from a vehicle. The vehicle is monitored for greenhouse gas emission, which includes identifying a running total of greenhouse gas emitted by the vehicle into an external environment that is external to the vehicle. Satisfaction of a payment triggering condition that triggers collection of a required payment pertaining to the identified running total of greenhouse gas emitted is detected. Responsive to the detecting satisfaction of the payment triggering condition the required payment is computed as a function of the stored running total of greenhouse gas emitted. A processor of a computer system provides notice of the required payment to an operator of the vehicle; an owner of the vehicle, a collecting party authorized to collect the required payment, a responsible party responsible for submitting the required payment to the collecting party, or combinations thereof. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332242 | COLLABORATIVE PLAN GENERATION BASED ON VARYING PREFERENCES AND CONSTRAINTS - Embodiments for generating and implementing collaborative plans that achieve goals for sets of individual agents based on a consideration of individual and group preferences are disclosed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a collaborative mechanism includes receiving individual plan preferences of agents via one or more client devices and modeling agent costs based on the received individual plan preferences. One or more collaborative plans are then be generated based on the modeled agent costs and one or more agents may be grouped into each collaborative plan. The one or more generated collaborative plans are provided to the agents via the one or more client devices for implementation. Finally, payments are distributed among the agents to compensate at least one agent for participation in one of the generated collaborative plans. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332243 | Goal Insurance - Goal insurance is provided as a purchasable option to users who wish to have a goal tracking system monitor and enforce their goals. The user may define the goal, a reward to be given upon successful completion of the goal and penalties to be applied if the goal is not met. To avoid penalties, the user may purchase goal insurance that may be used or apply under specified circumstances. Such circumstances may include death, illness, unemployment or the like. Goal information and progress may be monitored by the goal tracking system and may further be published to one or more sites. Other users may contribute to the user's reward or send encouraging remarks. If the user does not purchase goal insurance, the predefined penalties may be applied upon expiration of a goal time period if the user has not achieved their goal. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332244 | ELECTRONIC PAINTING - An electronic painting comprising a display unit which is provided with a display element, an energy supply and a control unit, having a rigidly installed, non-replaceable storage medium, wherein non-changeable information which is used to control the display unit is stored. The electronic painting assumes the functions of a traditional painting which represents only one idea and is unique by virtue of the fact that the content of the storage medium is constant. The painting has a flat display which is also suitable for mounting on walls as traditional paintings. The electronic painting can also be provided with housing frame. Advantageously, a current or battery-driven electronic painting can also represent dimensions and time. The storage medium may contain a determined sequence of electronically generated images or a video, and movements can, for example, also be directly represented. Stored sound sequences can also be emitted via optional loud speakers. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332245 | Integrated RFID sensor method and system - A healthcare system is provided with RF sensor modules that can be integrated into various components and subsystems or that can be retrofit. Sensors modules include a sensor adapted to detect operational data. The modules may process and store the data, and perform aggregation functions to simplify or reduce the data. The data is then collected from the modules by an RF transceiver and conveyed to downstream processing layers. The processing layers may evaluate the operation of the components or subsystems, or the overall health or functioning of the component, subsystem, or any other useful subdivision of the healthcare system. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332246 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING DRUGS DURING A REPACKAGING AND ADMINISTERING PROCESS - The invention relates to a system and method for tracking drugs during a transfer and administering process to reduce labeling errors that can occur during that process. The system includes a storage container reader that is configured to read a set of one or more storage-container-associated machine-readable indicia positioned on a container containing a drug. The set of one or more storage-container-associated machine-readable indicia identifies the drug. The system further includes an indicia-generating device that is configured to generate a drug-delivery-container-associated indicia identifying the drug based on the storage-container-associated machine-readable indicia. The set of one or more drug-delivery-container-associated indicia includes a set of one or more drug-delivery-container-associated machine-readable indicia. Optionally the system further includes a drug delivery container reader, wherein the drug delivery container reader is configured to read the set of one or more drug-delivery-container-associated machine-readable indicia. Optionally the system further includes a processing unit that generates an output signal corresponding to the drug based on the set of one or more drug-delivery-container-associated machine-readable indicia. Optionally the system further includes an output device that outputs a user-comprehensible output identifying the drug based on the output signal from the processing unit. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332247 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AND DOCUMENTING HEALTHCARE EXPENSES PAID FROM A HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT - Systems and methods for facilitating the management and payment of healthcare expenses from a health savings account are provided. For example, the systems generally comprise a server which houses at least one database in which a plurality of member accounts are recorded. Each member account will preferably (i) list an amount of money deposited by a member into an HSA and (ii) store information that memorializes the payment of healthcare expenses paid by the member from the HSA. In addition, the server is preferably capable of receiving information from a website through which the member may access the member's account—and provide the server with the information that memorializes the payment of his or her healthcare expenses from the appropriate HSA. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332248 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED PLANNING AND PROVIDING OF MASS CUSTOMIZED BONE STRUCTURE - A computer-implemented method, a system and a computer program is disclosed, which comprise virtual planning of a medical procedure of a patient. The medical procedure comprises providing a patient configured bone structure in a body portion of the patient. Based on an input of a final result of the medical procedure, the bone structure may be modified by various tools and methods, such a bone implants, bone distractive methods, etc. Production data based on the virtual planning is generated that is configured for subsequent use in production of the bone structure or a medical product, which medical product is devised for use in the medical procedure, and devised for arrangement in the patient for facilitating the medical procedure. The virtual planning of a medical procedure comprises providing position data for a position of at least a part of a prosthesis component in relation to the body portion, and virtual planning of a modification of a boundary surface at the body portion as a function of the position data. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332249 | INTEGRATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS IN MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS - When generating a model of physiological systems in a patient, differential equations representing parameters and variables in the systems are linked together to form one or more sub-models (e.g., one for each physiological system), which in turn are linked together to form the patient model. Simulations of hypothetical clinical situations are then run on the model to solve for the variables, and the solutions are output as decision support data for review by a clinician to facilitate a determination of a treatment of diagnosis for the patient. Additionally, model predictions can be compared to actual measurements, when available, and the model can be refined or optimized as a function of the comparison. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332250 | PRE-EXAMINATION MEDICAL DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM - A pre-examination patient information gathering system comprises an electronic user interface ( | 2010-12-30 |
20100332251 | ELECTRONIC PAYMENT DELIVERY SERVICE - Systems and methods for providing finance-related services such as electronic payment delivery are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a payment system is configured to receive a payment message including a type of information, and to add an identification number to the message. The type of information is removed from the payment message, and the revised payment message is forwarded on to an entity responsible for payment. Particular embodiments in accordance with the present invention are suited for removing personal patient information from a HIPAA-compliant payment message, prior to forwarding the revised message over an electronic payment network. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332252 | MEDICAL CLAIMS FRAUD PREVENTION SYSTEM INCLUDING PATIENT CALL INITIATING FEATURE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A medical claim fraud prevention system includes a first controller positioned at a medical facility and a second controller positioned at a patient information collection center and adapted to be in communication with the first controller. The first controller may transmit a first signal to the second controller responsive to an occurrence of a predetermined event. The second controller may initiate contact with a patient via the patient's mobile phone in response to the first signal revived from the first controller, and the patient may be prompted to enter predetermined information to verify their location. The second controller may transmit an indication to the first controller in response to the first signal received from the first controller regarding whether the patient is within a predetermined vicinity of the medical facility based on the predetermined information entered by the patient to verify their location. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332253 | Systems and Methods for Providing Customized Dentures - This disclosure relates to system and method for digitally obtaining, recording utilizing and customizing dental data and features needed in providing customized dentures. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332254 | IN-VITRO DEVICE SUPPORT FOR X-RAY BASED KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST - A system and method of diagnosing kidney syndromes using an intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is described. The system includes an X-ray imaging device and an in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) device. The IVD device is used to identify risk factors such as sensitivity to contrast agents, or to indicate or rule out other syndromes which may have symptoms similar to kidney malfunction. The level of blood components such as creatinine may be used, in conjunction with other medical data and IVD tests, to determine a risk score for the patient. The risk score may be used to recommend modifications to a baseline procedure such as change in the volume or type of contrast agent, the number of X-rays, or the performance of post-procedure dialysis. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332255 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING DISPLAY OF MEDICAL PROCEDURE DATA - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for facilitating display of medical procedure data on a surgical tracking display apparatus. A method may include accessing medical procedure data from one or more data sources. The method may further include aggregating the accessed medical procedure data into one or more procedure data units based at least in part upon predefined aggregation criteria. The method may additionally include assigning each procedure data unit to one of a plurality of groups and ordering the procedure data units for each group. The method may also include causing one or more ordered procedure data units from each of a plurality of the groups to be displayed in order on the surgical tracking display apparatus. Corresponding systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are also provided. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332256 | Medical Data Indexing System and Method - A data processing technique is provided. In one embodiment, a method includes crawling a network via a computing device to access patient data from a plurality of medical resources coupled to the network. The medical resources may include various imaging systems, computers, databases, patient monitors, and other medical devices and systems. The method may also include populating a searchable index of patient data accessed from at least a first medical resource of the plurality of medical resources, and storing the searchable index in a memory device to facilitate user-searching of the patient data via the searchable index. In one embodiment, the patient data includes either or both of DICOM data and HL7 data. Additional methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332257 | MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC RECONFIGURATION AND DATA BINDING - Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus and computer program products for a customizable and contextually relevant medical system with automatic reconfiguration and data binding. Some embodiments relate to an enterprise digital assistant capable of changing its functionality based on context and binding medical information associated with one medical entity, for example, a care giver, patient or medical system/device, to medical information associated with another medical entity. Other embodiments relate to a method for automatically reconfiguring an enterprise digital assistant based on context and performing contextually relevant data binding. In this regard, the method provides a module for processing medical data from a plurality of medical entities and transmitting the data to one or more clinical information systems. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332258 | Clinical Trial Navigation Facilitator - A method of improving clinical trial recruitment and retention includes creating patient trial scores based on ranking of patient traits or characteristics, creating patient clusters based on statistical similarity and allocating clinical trial navigation resources to patients groups based on need as indicated by cluster rankings. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332259 | Wellness Evaluation System And Method - A system and method for a wellness evaluation health plan participant. Initially, inputs are received which include (1) health risk assessment data indicating the participant's blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, body mass index, alcohol and tobacco use; (2) an injury report including previous personal injury and pain information for the participant; and (3) an ergonomic analysis of the participant's jobsite. In response to these inputs, wellness exercise recommendations are generated including a set of pre-existing injury prevention exercises based on the injury report, and exercises based on potential worksite injury as determined by the ergonomic jobsite analysis. The participant may be sent a list of reading material including at least one article based on the health risk assessment. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332260 | PERSONAL RECORD SYSTEM WITH CENTRALIZED DATA STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTED RECORD GENERATION AND ACCESS - A personal record system and method having distributed record generation and access and personally centralized record storage for generating, storing and accessing personal records and a personal record card for use therein. The record system includes a plurality of interaction sites interconnected through a record network wherein each interaction site includes a record card read/write device, a record storage subsystem for storing at least records, and a record transaction process connected with the record card read/write device and record storage system for reading records from a record card and writing records to a record card and with the record network for transmitting records to and receiving records from at least other interaction sites. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332261 | Connecting Consumers with Service Providers - A set of answers is received to a series of questions sent to a consumer of services, the set of answers to the series of questions is analyzed in a computer to identify types of service providers that can provide services to the consumer based on the received answers, and an agenda is produced, the agenda including the identified types of service providers and topics for the consumer of services to discuss with a service provider of each type, with the topics determined at least in part based on the answers. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332262 | CLOUD COMPUTING RESOURCE BROKER - Embodiments for interacting with cloud computing providers are disclosed. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a resource broker receives a request for a computing task that is to be performed from a customer. The resource broker selects one of the cloud computing providers to perform at least a part of the computing task. In turn, the resource broker may obtain a gain from performance of the at least one part of the computing task by the cloud computing provider. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332263 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A CONTRACT COMPLIANCE SOLUTION - An apparatus for providing contract compliance may include processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive a contract provision corresponding to a contract defining a responsibility of a payor with respect to payment of a first class of claim, and transform the contract provision, based on rule compliance information defining processing actions to be performed in response to corresponding criteria, into a claim processing rule in a format of a claim adjudication rule associated with a second class of claim. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332264 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING DEFERRED TERM LIFE INSURANCE ASSOCIATED WITH A SAVINGS PLAN - A computer system for administering a plan for providing life insurance associated with a savings plan to attain a target balance at a target date, the system having a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The processor is adapted to, responsive to receiving data including a death of the insured, determine whether the death occurred after a deferral period and before the target date. The processor is further adapted to, responsive to determining that the death occurred after the deferral period and before the target date, determine a death benefit amount based on the date of death, the death benefit amount being less than the target balance; and provide an output signal indicative of the amount of the death benefit to be paid to the savings plan. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332265 | RECEIPT INSURANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Receipt insurance systems and methods whereby a third party receipt insurer insures consumers or purchasers all of the benefits associated with having possession of a receipt for a retail purchase without the need for possession of a physical or paper receipt. A receipt insurance agreement between a receipt insurance provider and a consumer protects the consumer against a loss of consumer rights or personal property insurance rights resulting from a lost receipt by electronically storing for retrieval, if necessary, an electronic record of all of the receipt information. The electronic receipt record is accepted by agreement between the receipt insurer and the seller/retailer as a valid receipt proof of purchase with all attendant rights. A receipt insurer provides receipt insurance coverage to a consumer to either protect against the loss of a paper receipt by substituting an electronic receipt record for a paper receipt, or eliminating the paper receipt entirely in lieu of an electronic receipt record which will be accepted by a seller or retailer as valid proof of purchase. Consumers are offered receipt insurance and thereby accept an electronic record of a purchase receipt as a valid record of a sales transaction between the consumer and a participating retailer in lieu of a traditional paper receipt. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332266 | TRAFFIC INFORMATION SYSTEM - A method of evaluating the driving behavior in a vehicle. The method includes determining values of a plurality of parameters of the operation of a first vehicle in a first road segment, determining values of the plurality of parameters for one or more second vehicles in a second road segment having similar properties to those of the first road segment, comparing the determined values of the first vehicle and the one or more second vehicles and providing an evaluation of the driving behavior of the first vehicle, responsive to the comparison. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332267 | System and Method for Preventing Multiple Online Purchases - A method for preventing redundant purchases of limited items includes steps for providing a commerce client to a user, receiving (a) financial information of the user and (b) a device identifier from a device the user is using to run the commerce client, the device identifier being based on one or more of user-configurable and non-user-configurable parameters of the user device, determining whether a previous transaction has been made with the device associated with the received device identifier, and disallowing the device from executing further transactions for a predetermined period of time. The method may be executed by an apparatus such as a computer server or stored as a series of instructions on a computer readable medium. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332268 | RESERVATION CHANGING SYSTEM - A reservation changing system provides diverse services. A memory card obtains, via a mobile telephone, a distance from a present location to a boarding station for a train for which a reservation has been made, and judges whether to perform a train reservation change search depending on the relationship between the obtained distance and a time remaining until a departure time of the train. When it is judged that a reservation change search is to be performed, the memory card obtains an expected arrival time at the station from a timetable server apparatus, compares the obtained expected arrival time with the departure time, and when a time margin between the two times is insufficient, the memory card instructs a reservation center apparatus, via the mobile telephone, to change the reservation, and receives and stores reservation information. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332269 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING THE FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS OF AN INDUSTRIAL MACHINE - An embodiment of the present invention may provide an integrated platform for assessing the current profitability of a previously executed service contract. Essentially, the present invention provides a user a simple yet effective means to evaluate and reassess whether a service contract for an industrial machine may remain profitable over the duration. An embodiment of the present invention may provide a method or system for forecasting and modeling the financial and operational requirements of an industrial machine. An embodiment of the present invention may integrate engineering data, equipment data, financial information, contractual information, and asset utilization information to reassess the financial and operational requirements of the industrial machine, for a current environment. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332270 | STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF DATA RECORDS FOR AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF SOCIAL REFERENCE GROUPS - A social reference group of a set of customers may be determined based on the interaction of customers. Using a portion of database of a service provider, interactions between customers may be determined. The interactions are analyzed to provide an at least one social reference group. A social reference group comprises a portion of the set of customers that are deemed socially similar. A behavior of a customer may be predicted based on past interactions and/or properties of the social reference group. The predicted behavior may be prevented by performing an action such as for example offering a customer about to churn an improved deal. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332271 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RESOURCE AND ORGANIZATION ACHIEVEMENT - Methods and systems for resource and organization achievement are described. In one embodiment, outcome data associated with a resource may be received. The outcome data may include an outcome time period, an outcome title, an outcome priority, an outcome status, and an outcome access level. The outcome status may identify progress by the resource toward an outcome. The outcome access level may define resource access to an outcome item. The outcome data may be stored in a database. A display of an outcome item associated with the resource may be generated based on at least a portion of the outcome data. The outcome item may represent the outcome for the resource. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332272 | Method and a system for controlling operation of a wind turbine - A method and a system for controlling operation of a wind turbine are provided. The method includes determining at least one failure mode relating to one or more components of the wind turbine, estimating a remaining lifetime of the component under current operating conditions, determining one or more control schemes to control the operation of the wind turbine in order to adjust the remaining lifetime of the component to a desired remaining lifetime of the component, determining a power production yield for the determined one or more control schemes and selecting a determined control scheme for controlling the operation of the wind turbine that maximizes the power production yield. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332273 | TOOLS FOR ASSISTING IN PETROLEUM PRODUCT TRANSPORTATION LOGISTICS - A tool to assist decision-making in the logistics of bulk product transportation. For example, the tool may be used to solve a problem involving the transportation and the inventory management of crude oil, in which the transportation of crude oil between supply ports and discharge ports are performed by a fleet of ships. The tool is capable of handling a typical petroleum product transportation problem, which can be quite complex. The tool uses advanced modeling and optimization technology to find a solution (either optimal or near optimal) for the allocation of bulk products, vehicle routing, vehicle scheduling, and/or bulk product blending operations. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332274 | ESTIMATING TRAINING DEVELOPMENT HOURS - In one aspect, a method to estimate training development hours includes receiving data on factors selected by a user using a user interface and using a computer processor to estimate training development hours based on the data on the factors. The method may further include determining the training development hours based on the data on the factors an assigned base development hours, estimated contact hours and an analysis percentage. | 2010-12-30 |
20100332275 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIA FOR TRADING OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY - A method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting more efficient energy use, by establishing a measure of efficiency, defined as a ratio of a measure of energy use to a measure of production; establishing a reduction schedule that sets limits on the energy efficiency ratio, with the schedule covering a series of compliance time periods and requiring efficient energy use during those time periods; establishing a transferable credit representing an amount of energy and establishing a tradable financial instrument representing a number of energy efficiency credits; issuing a plurality of energy efficiency credits to the entities; establishing a trading system to facilitate the sale and purchase of the financial instruments; and requiring entities to comply with the reduction schedule by making operational improvements or acquiring and surrendering credits to thus increase the efficiency of energy use in turn reducing greenhouse gas emissions. | 2010-12-30 |