20th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120123712 | DETERMINING REMAINING LIFE FRACTION FOR BATTERY NETWORKS IN-SITU - Determination of a remaining life fraction for a network of batteries during use in an electrical circuit is disclosed. A state of health of the battery network can be determined by measuring a change in impedance characteristics of the individual battery units and/or the battery network as a whole. More specifically, a mode and a severity of a failure can be determined for individual battery units. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123713 | Control of Delivery of Current Through One or More Discharge Lamps - Method to identify a current drawn by a fluorescent lamp in a circuit. Methods include receiving a voltage supplied to a fluorescent lamp drawing a current in response to the voltage, digitally sampling the voltage at a sampling frequency and associating a first time stamp with a voltage value representing one of a maximum or minimum value in observed voltage, receiving the current after receiving the voltage, digitally sampling the current at the sampling frequency and associating multiple second time stamps with a corresponding multiple current values, identifying a second time stamp, a difference between the first time stamp and the second time stamp being within a threshold, and identifying a current value associated with the second time stamp as the current drawn by the fluorescent lamp. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123714 | MOTOR CURRENT BASED AIR CIRCUIT OBSTRUCTION DETECTION - A program product for determining an obstruction in an air circuit for an environmental control unit having a motor is provided. The program product comprises a program and a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium. The program is configured to at least facilitate obtaining a load current of the motor, determining a state of the motor, generating a comparison, and determining the obstruction using the load current and the comparison. The comparison is generated by comparing the load current to a first plurality of values if the motor is in a steady state, and by comparing the load current to a second plurality of values if the motor is in a transient state. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium stores the program. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123715 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING INDUCTANCES OF SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MACHINE - A method and an arrangement of determining inductances of a synchronous reluctance machine are provided. The method includes supplying a voltage pulse in the quadrature-axis or direct-axis direction of rotor, sampling currents generated by the supplied voltage pulse, and calculating values of flux at the sampling instants from the value of the supplied voltage pulse, the sampled current values and a value of the stator resistance. The method also includes calculating synchronous inductance of the machine by dividing the calculated flux values by the corresponding sampled currents, and/or calculating transient inductance of the machine as a derivative of the flux with respect to current, and storing the calculated values as a function of current. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123716 | CONTACT SENSORS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME - Disclosed herein are novel contact sensors. The contact sensors disclosed herein include a conductive composite material formed of a polymer and a conductive filler. In one particular aspect, the composite materials can include less than about 10 wt % conductive filler. Thus, the composite material of the contact sensors can have physical characteristics essentially identical to the polymer, while being electrically conductive with the electrical resistance proportional to the load on the sensor. The sensors can provide real time dynamic contact information for joint members under conditions expected during use. In one particular aspect, the sensor can be used to properly balance the knee ligaments in a total knee replacement surgery. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123717 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPTIMIZING MEASUREMENT PATHS - A method of optimizing measurement paths computes a minimum bounding box for the measurement elements on a product, and computes a capturing range of a lens of a measurement machine. The method divides the minimum bounding box into M*N partitions according to the capturing range, and assigns a number to each of the M*N partitions. The method puts the number of a partition which exclusively encloses a measurement element into a first array, and puts a number set that includes the numbers of the partitions which all enclose a measurement element into a second array, and lists the numbers of the partitions in order according to the first array and the second array to generate a measurement path. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TIME OF FLIGHT CONFIDENCE MAP BASED DEPTH NOISE AND DEPTH COVERAGE RANGE - A method and apparatus for fixing a depth map wrap-around error and a depth map coverage by a confidence map. The method includes dynamically determining a threshold for the confidence map threshold based on an ambient light environment, wherein the threshold is reconfigurable depending on LED light strength distribution in TOF sensor, extracting, via the digital processor, four phases of Time Of Flight raw data from the Time Of Flight sensor data, computing a phase differential signal array for fixed point utilizing the four phases of the Time Of Flight raw data, computing the depth map, confidence map and the average light signal strength utilizing the phase differential signal array, obtaining the dynamic confidence map threshold for wrap around error correction utilizing the average light signal strength, and correcting the depth map wrap-around error utilizing the depth map, the confidence map and the dynamic confidence map threshold. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123719 | INSPECTION METHOD - In order to set an inspection area in an inspection apparatus for inspecting a board, a plurality of measurement areas are set on a board, and then reference data and measurement data of at least one adjacent measurement area that is adjacent to a target measurement area for inspecting a measurement target, among the measurement areas, are acquired. Thereafter, at least one feature object is extracted from the adjacent measurement area. Then, a distortion degree is acquired by comparing reference data and measurement data corresponding to the feature object with each other, and thereafter the distortion degree is compensated for, to set an inspection area in the target measurement area. Thus, a conversion relation between the reference data and the measurement data may be correctly acquired, and an inspection area, in which distortion is compensated for, may be correctly set. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123720 | ROBOTIC HELIOSTAT CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A robotic controller for autonomous calibration and inspection of two or more solar surfaces wherein the robotic controller includes a drive system to position itself near a solar surface such that onboard sensors may be utilized to gather information about the solar surface. An onboard communication unit relays information to a central processing network, this processor combines new information with stored historical data to calibrate a solar surface and/or to determine its instantaneous health. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123721 | ELECTRONIC SCALE HAVING FUNCTION OF COMPENSATING FOR AIR PRESSURE CHANGES IN GLOVE BOX - The present invention relates to an electronic scale having an air pressure change compensation function, which can precisely measure the weight of an object to be weighed even in an environment in which air pressure changes moment by moment in an airtight space such as in a glove box. According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic scale having an internal air pressure measurement sensor, by which the function of correcting the weight of an object to be weighed is provided even in an environment in which air pressure changes such as in the glove box is provided, thus enabling the weight of a sample to be precisely measured even in an environment in which air pressure changes moment by moment. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123722 | FLUORESCENT SPECTRUM CORRECTING METHOD AND FLUORESCENT SPECTRUM MEASURING DEVICE - A fluorescent spectrum correcting method includes comparing fluorescent spectrum obtained from micro-particles labeled with a plurality of fluorescent pigments with reference spectrum to separating the fluorescent spectrum into fluorescent spectrum for each pigment, and previously measured spectrum data is used as the reference spectrum. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123723 | METHODS FOR MITIGATING INTERACTIONS AMONG WIRELESS DEVICES IN A WIRELESS TEST SYSTEM - A test station may include a test host, a test unit, and a test chamber. Multiple devices under test (DUTs) may be placed in the test chamber during wireless testing. Radio-frequency signals may be conveyed between the test unit and the multiple DUTs using a conducted arrangement through a splitter-combiner circuit or using a radiated arrangement through a test antenna in the test chamber. The multiple DUTs may be synced to the test unit one DUT at a time (in series) or in parallel. The test host may direct the test unit to broadcast downlink signals at a given channel. The test host my direct a selected DUT to transmit uplink signals at the given channel or at a selected channel that is different from the given channel. The test unit may be used to perform desired measurement on the uplink signals transmitted from the selected DUT. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123724 | Detecting an Unstable Input to an IC - Additional circuitry is included in an input cell design structure for an integrated circuit to detect and report transitions on an input that was expected to be stable, and to store that event for later analysis. Two or more modified input cells may have their error indications daisy-chained together to minimize additional routing. The storage elements may be included in a scan chain to allow for isolation of which input had the unexpected transition. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123725 | PERFORMING RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF SIGNAL WIRES - A computer-implemented system, method, and storage device simulate a periodic voltage waveform in a network model of the integrated circuit design. The method then determines resultant current values in each segment of nets of the integrated circuit design resulting from the periodic voltage waveform and performs a Fourier transform of the periodic voltage waveform to generate a frequency domain representation of the periodic voltage waveform. The frequency domain representation comprises multiple Fourier terms, each of the Fourier terms is a frequency that is a multiple of the base frequency. Next, the method performs an AC analysis of the resultant voltage at each frequency of the multiple Fourier terms. The AC analysis provides an electrical current value for each of the frequencies of the Fourier terms for each of the nets. This allows the method to compute a root mean square current through each of the nets based on the AC analysis. Then, the method determines whether the root mean square current for any of the segments of the nets exceeds a current limit, and reports any segment of the nets for which the root mean square current exceeds the current limit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123726 | TEST APPARATUS, TEST METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The time required for timing training is reduced by a test apparatus having an expected value comparing section judging whether a value resulting from sampling input/output data using a strobe signal matches a pre-set expected value a pre-set number of times, and a test section adjusting a phase of a test signal to be supplied to the device under test based on the first relative phase changing from a fail state to a pass state and the second relative phase changing from the pass state to the fail state, and testing the device under test using the test signal whose phase has been adjusted, where the fail state being in which at least one of the pre-set number of judgment results indicates mismatch, and the pass state being in which all the pre-set number of judgment results indicate match. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123727 | SELF-SERVICE CIRCUIT TESTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In one of many possible embodiments, an exemplary system includes a test management subsystem configured to provide a user portal to a user of a circuit provided by a service provider, the user portal including a tool enabling the user to select a signal loop for testing at least a section of the circuit, the signal loop being selected from a plurality of signal loop options. The system also includes a network management subsystem communicatively coupled to the test management subsystem, the network management subsystem being configured to receive data representative of the selection from the test management subsystem and instruct, based on the selection, a network device along the circuit to execute a loop-back mode. In certain embodiments, the selected signal loop defines a test pattern signal flow for testing a subsection of the circuit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123728 | TESTING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed embodiments relate to an electronic device including a processor and a machine-readable storage medium, which may include instructions for testing an electronic device, including instructions for executing an executable and instructions for signaling the executable to initiate a test on an electronic device. The machine-readable storage medium may also comprise instructions for receiving information from the executable about the test before the booting of an operating system on the electronic device and before the executable finishes executing. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123729 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONVERTING MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS - A method of converting a measurement program A of a first measurement machine to a measurement program B which is usable to a second measurement machine B inserts the measurement information of the measurement program A into a measurement program template A′ of the first measurement machine to generate a measurement program template A | 2012-05-17 |
20120123730 | METHOD FOR DETECTION USING A YI ALGORITHM, AND YI DETECTOR - In the field of communications technologies, embodiments of the present invention provide a method for detection using a YI algorithm and a YI detector, so as to solve the technical problem of poor detection performance caused by signal environment variation in the prior art. In the embodiment of the present invention, parameters are obtained according to a received signal; a level threshold at each level starting from a level corresponding to a Tailbits value is obtained according to the parameters, and validity of at least one node at the level is determined according to the level threshold, where the level is the same as a level of the level threshold; and a detection identifier is output according to the validity. The embodiment of the present invention is mainly applied to a scenario of detection using thresholds. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123731 | METHOD FOR TREATING VERTICAL TUBES IN A CHEMICAL REACTOR - A device and method for measuring the back pressure in chemical reactor tubes includes many automated features. Inflatable tube seals may be automatically inflated. The device may measure several tubes at once. It may transmit data electronically to a remote computer for analysis and graphic display. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123732 | AN AIR CONDITIONER - Disclosed is an air conditioner with spatial recognition and detection functions for deciding room shape by determining, based on temperature difference information between the floor and walls occurring during air conditioning operation, a human body detection position log, and a capacity zone of the air conditioner. In an embodiment, an infrared sensor detects a temperature of an area of the room by scanning the area and a control unit acquires thermal image data of the area scanned by the infrared sensor and then calculates a temperature of a wall of the room from the acquired thermal image data. The control unit detects a human body in the room from the thermal image data, calculates a distance between the body and the wall, and calculates a radiation temperature from the wall for the body based on the calculated temperature of the wall and the distance between the body and the wall. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123733 | METHOD SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR HUMAN MOVEMENT RECOGNITION - A method for human movement recognition comprises the steps of: retrieving successive measuring data for human movement recognition from an inertial measurement unit; dividing the successive measuring data to generate at least a human movement pattern waveform if the successive measuring data conforms to a specific human movement pattern; quantifying the at least a human movement pattern waveform to generate at least a human movement sequence; and determining a human movement corresponding to the inertial measurement unit by comparing the at least a human movement sequence and a plurality of reference human movement sequences. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123734 | MISALIGNMENT INDICATION DECISION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for deciding whether or not to indicate misalignment. In some examples, an analysis of parametric data relating to tests sensitive to misalignment is performed in order to determine which data is incongruous and to identify corresponding probes or socket contacts as suspected misaligned. In some examples, additionally or alternatively, a spatial analysis quantifies the placement of a set of identified suspected misaligned probes, which were identified from pass/fail test data and/or parametric test data, with respect to a contiguous or non-contiguous area on one or more wafers. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123735 | WALKING SITUATION DETECTION DEVICE, WALKING SITUATION DETECTION METHOD, AND WALKING SITUATION DETECTION PROGRAM - A walking situation detection device includes an acquisition unit which acquires an acceleration value according to an action of a user in a predetermined cycle, an interval detection unit which detects a first time interval and a second time interval from the acceleration value, a determination unit which determines a position where the user carries a terminal in his or her body based on a ratio of the first time interval to the second time interval, and a number of steps determination unit which determines the number of steps of the user based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123736 | SYSTEM FOR RAPID ASSESSMENT OF GRADE VARIATIONS AND METHOD FOR USING A SYSTEM - A system for estimating or calculating grade variations of a ground surface is provided that is convenient to use and provides data of sufficient precision for the estimating or calculating process. The system can be deployed for estimating or calculating grade variations in connection with the placement and installation of fences, gates, pools, drainage, steps, decks, patios, contour features, ponds, driveways, and other site improvements. In addition to a deployment of the system to quickly establish and/or verify elevations of outdoor features, the system can be deployed to quickly establish and/or verify elevations in a building structure for installing cabinets, countertops, or alternating current outlets. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123737 | FAULT DETECTION APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FAULT DETECTION OF SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING TOOLS - Fault detection apparatuses and methods for detecting a processing or hardware performance fault of a semiconductor production tool have been provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for detecting a fault of a semiconductor production tool includes sensing a signal associated with a test component of the production tool during operation of the production tool and converting the signal to an electronic test signal. A prerecorded signature signal corresponding to the test component is provided and the test signal and the prerecorded signature signal are compared. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123738 | CLOSING DEVICE, HOUSING PART OF A LUBRICANT CONTAINER, DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR MONITORING THE OPERATING STATE OF A LUBRICANT IN THE HOUSING PART - The invention relates to a housing part containing a lubricant reservoir and at least one respective inlet and outlet opening for filling and draining a lubricating fluid into and from the lubricant reservoir. The inlet and outlet openings are sealed by releasable closure devices each comprising a sensor means for determining the operation parameters in a lubricant contained in the lubricant reservoir and for generating and/or storing sensor signals, as well as a transceiver for the transmission of the sensor signals to an external processing unit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123739 | System and Methods for Precise Microprocessor Event Counting - Method for providing precise microprocessor performance counter readings including detecting a swap back to a monitored process executing in a microprocessor. In response to the detected swap back to the monitored process, if the value read from the performance counter does not exceed the defined overflow threshold, the value of the performance counter stored in the first memory location is restored to the performance counter. If the value read from the performance counter exceeds the defined overflow threshold, the performance counter is set to zero and the value of the performance counter stored in the first memory location is used to increment an overflow memory location. If the value read from the performance counter exceeds the defined overflow threshold, at least one performance counter reading instruction is detected and in response to the detected at least one performance counter reading instruction, setting the counter output register to zero. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123740 | Zero Phase Real Time Filtering with a Recurrence Matrix - Processing of a signal includes identifying a past recurring pattern in the signal with a recurrence matrix, and filtering the signal and the recurring pattern such that the recurring pattern serves as a representation of future signal behavior. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123741 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING A FORMED SHEET-METAL PART - In a method for designing a formed sheet-metal part, a method for displaying a visual representation of the quality of the formed sheet-metal part, the method comprising the steps of:
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20120123742 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING FREE SPACE REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SURFACES - Computer-based methods and associated computer systems are disclosed for designing free space reflective optical surfaces ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120123743 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED METHOD FOR OPTIMISING SURFACES OF COMPOSITE-MATERIAL STRUCTURES - Computer-assisted method for optimising surfaces of composite-material structures as part of a design process that includes the following stages: a) Providing a multi-cell surface ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120123744 | System and Method for Step Coverage Measurement - Determining an unknown step coverage of a thin film deposited on a 3D wafer includes exposing a planar wafer comprising a first film deposited thereon to X-ray radiation to create first fluorescent radiation; detecting the first fluorescent radiation; measuring a number of XRF counts on the planar wafer; creating an XRF model of the planar wafer; providing a portion of the 3D wafer comprising troughs and a second film deposited thereon; determining a multiplier factor between the portion of the 3D wafer and the planar wafer; exposing the portion of the 3D wafer to X-ray radiation to create second fluorescent radiation; detecting the second fluorescent radiation; measuring a number of XRF counts on the portion of the 3D wafer; calculating a step coverage of the portion of the 3D wafer; and determining a uniformity of the 3D wafer based on the step coverage of the portion of the 3D wafer. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123745 | Adaptive Content-aware Aging Simulations - A system and method for simulating aging parameters of a System-on-Chip (SoC) integrated circuit is disclosed. A SoC integrated circuit is first divided into a plurality of blocks in accordance with the nature or the operating conditions of each block. The simulation of a digital circuit based block is performed by a static timing analyzer. The simulation of a mixed signal based block is performed by first employing a fresh device model to obtain relevant operation conditions, such as node voltages. Based upon the operation conditions and reliability characterization data, parameters degradation calculators assess aging characteristic factors of each block. In a subsequent simulation, a circuit simulator calculates the design corners of a SoC chip based upon the characteristic factors of each block. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123746 | EXACT PARAMETER SPACE REDUCTION FOR NUMERICALLY INTEGRATING PARAMETERIZED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS - In a computational environment including at least one processor, an example method of reducing the number of parameters in a model of a physical system includes receiving an initial model such as a system of differential algebraic equations (DAEs), eliminating isolated parameters (if any) from the initial model, extracting parameter sub-expressions from the DAEs, establishing minimal disconnected clusters of parameter subexpressions, and for each cluster, attempting to generate a reduced cluster having a reduced number of parameters using one or more algorithms. If more than one approach is successful, that which is most successful in reducing the number of parameters is selected. A revised model is created having fewer parameters than the initial model. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123747 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AND DISPLAYING SHEET-METAL-FORMING SIMULATION PARAMETERS - In a method for the numerical simulation of sheet-metal-forming processes, forming simulation parameters are visually displayed by:
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20120123748 | Method and Apparatus for Measuring a Structure on a Substrate, Computer Program Products for Implementing Such Methods and Apparatus - Diffraction models and scatterometry are used to reconstruct a model of a microscopic structure on a substrate. A plurality of candidate structures are defined, each represented by a plurality of parameters (p | 2012-05-17 |
20120123749 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DESIGNING CHROMATIC DISPERSION COMPENSATION - A design method includes calculating a calculated compensation amount of a dispersion compensation module arranged on each of a plurality of wavelength paths in such a way that a residual chromatic dispersion value of each of the wavelength paths which transmits an optical signal between an initial node and a final node satisfies a tolerance condition given in accordance with a priority given to each of the wavelength paths; and deciding a decision value to be applied as the compensation amount of the dispersion compensation module based on the calculated compensation amount based on a plurality of candidate values each being prepared in advance as the candidate for the compensation amount of the dispersion compensation module. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123750 | Fractional Order Element Based Impedance Matching - Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and systems related to fractional order element based impedance matching. In one embodiment, a method includes aligning a traditional Smith chart (|α|=1) with a fractional order Smith chart (|α|≠1). A load impedance is located on the traditional Smith chart and projected onto the fractional order Smith chart. A fractional order matching element is determined by transitioning along a matching circle of the fractional order Smith chart based at least in part upon characteristic line impedance. In another embodiment, a system includes a fractional order impedance matching application executed in a computing device. The fractional order impedance matching application includes logic that obtains a first set of Smith chart coordinates at a first order, determines a second set of Smith chart coordinates at a second order, and determines a fractional order matching element from the second set of Smith chart coordinates. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123751 | Method for Estimating a Melting Temperature of a Nucleic Acid in Buffers Containing Magnesium Ions - The invention relates to methods and systems for predicting or estimating the melting temperature of duplex nucleic acids, in the presence of divalent cations, particularly duplexes of oligonucleotides which may be used as, for example, but not limited to primers or probes in PCR and/or hybridization assays. The methods and algorithms use novel formulas, having terms and coefficients that are functions of the particular nucleotide sequence, to estimate the effect of divalent cation salt conditions on the melting temperature. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123752 | DETERMINATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE NUMBER OF MULTI-FEED ELEMENTS IN MULTI-BEAM ANTENNA - Provided is a method and apparatus for determining the number of feed elements in a multi-beam antenna. Provided is a method and apparatus capable of determining the number of feed elements to be installed in an antenna and thereby estimating a size of the antenna in order to efficiently configure an antenna for forming multiple beams. In particular, when configuring the antenna for providing the multiple beams, the number of feed elements to be installed in the antenna may be quickly computed. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123753 | Method for analyzing longitudinal data, corresponding computer and system - The method according to the invention for analyzing longitudinal data characterizing the evolution of at least a first variable as a function of at least one second variable, comprising steps for determining ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120123754 | METHOD, AN APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SIMULATING DYNAMIC FLUIDS - The invention relates to a method for simulating dynamic fluids comprising a plurality of pseudo particles. The method comprising the steps of: defining a fluid mass density of the pseudo particle masses; defining a mass density constraint such that the mass density on each pseudo particle is constrained to a reference mass density of a real fluid, whereby an instant propagation of density fluctuations through the entire fluid system is enabled; performing constraint stabilization on said mass density constraint using a time stepping function, wherein said time stepping function is arranged to conserve global physical symmetries and is stable for violations of said mass density constraint; solving a linear system of equations for said mass density constraint in order to calculate density constraint forces; calculating new time discrete pseudo particle velocities from previous pseudo particle velocities with addition of velocity increments calculated from said density constraint forces; and calculating new time discrete pseudo particle positions from the previous pseudo particle positions with additions of the position increments calculated from said new pseudo particle velocities. The invention also relates to an apparatus for simulating dynamic fluids and a computer program product for the same. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123755 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING ROTOR SLOTS - Methods of determining a quantity of rotor slots in an induction motor are disclosed. An approximate slip is calculated according to an approximate slip function. A fundamental frequency is calculated from a representation of the voltage signal. A saliency frequency is calculated from a representation of the current signal. For each rotor slots index in a set of rotor slots indices, a slip estimate is calculated according to a slip estimation function. A slip estimation error signal is calculated. A rotor slots performance surface representative of an aggregate of the slip estimation error signals is calculated. A rotor slots quantity equal to the rotor slots index corresponding to a minimum of the rotor slots performance surface over at least a portion of the set of the rotor slots indices is defined. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123756 | Drilling Advisory Systems and Methods Based on At Least Two Controllable Drilling Parameters - Methods and systems for controlling drilling operations include using a statistical model to identify at least two controllable drilling parameters having significant correlation to one or more drilling performance measurements. The methods and systems further generate operational recommendations for at least two controllable drilling parameters based at least in part on the statistical model. The operational recommendations are selected to optimize one or more drilling performance measurements. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123757 | Methods to Estimate Downhole Drilling Vibration Indices From Surface Measurement - Method to estimate severity of downhole vibration for a wellbore drill tool assembly, comprising: identifying a dataset comprising selected drill tool assembly parameters; selecting a reference level of downhole vibration index for the drill tool assembly; identifying a surface drilling parameter and calculating a reference surface vibration attribute for the selected reference level of downhole vibration index; determining a surface parameter vibration attribute derived from at least one surface measurement or observation obtained in a drilling operation, the determined surface parameter vibration attribute corresponding to the identified surface drilling parameter; and estimating a downhole vibration index severity indicator by evaluating the determined surface parameter vibration attribute with respect to the identified reference surface vibration attribute. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123758 | Virtual Environment For Critical Incident Response Training - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for critical incident response training are disclosed. A method of prompting a user of a computing device to choose how a user avatar should interact with a three-dimensional virtual environment in response to a critical incident includes displaying the three-dimensional virtual environment on a display device. The three-dimensional virtual environment graphically represents a physical environment. The method further includes displaying the user avatar that represents the user on a display device. The user avatar is positioned in the three-dimensional virtual environment. The method further includes simulating the critical incident in the three-dimensional virtual environment, and prompting the user to choose how the user avatar should interact with the three-dimensional virtual environment in response to the simulated critical incident. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING SENSITIVE MAKE-UP BASED ON SKIN TONE OF USER - A system for recommending a sensitive make-up based on skin tone of a user, includes an avatar creator for creating an avatar image using skin information obtained by scanning user's body. Further, the sensitive make-up recommending system includes a cosmetics information processor for generating analysis information by analyzing a plurality of cosmetics and then storing the generated information in a database. Furthermore, the sensitive make-up recommending system includes a simulator for displaying results of performing a make-up simulation to the avatar image based on the analysis information on certain cosmetics selected by the user and the skin information. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123760 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING AN APTAMER - Disclosed in this specification is a method for identifying at least one aptamer that can bind to a bio-molecular target. The aptamer is designed in silico based on the structure of the target molecule. The process includes the steps of determining a first seed residue and growing an oligomer, one residue at a time, while maximizing the entropy of target-oligomer complex or minimizing the binding energy after the addition of each oligomer. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123761 | Testing Software On A Computer System - A method is provided for testing a computer system, which system includes an interface supporting connection to one or more hardware devices. The method comprises initially performing a plurality of discrete software test processes in a first order of performance. For each test process, by reference to the said interface, the hardware device interactions occasioned by each said test process are recorded. Subsequently the said test processes are run in a second order of performance, which second order is derived from the record of hardware device interactions. A computer system configured to implement the method is also provided. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123762 | Thermal Memory In A Fault Powered System - A circuit breaker system for providing thermal protection to a conductor conducting current from a power source to a load. While the power source is connected to the load, a microcontroller is powered by the current passing through the conductor to thermally model the temperature of the conductor. If the microcontroller determines that the temperature of the conductor has risen to an undesirable or unsafe level, the circuit breaker disconnects the power source from the load and the current no longer passes through the conductor. With no current passing through the conductor, the microcontroller no longer receives power from the conductor. Instead, the microcontroller continues to model the temperature of the conductor as the conductor cools to an ambient temperature by receiving power from an energy storage device. Accordingly, the microcontroller continuously models the temperature of the conductor until the temperature of the conductor cools to the ambient temperature. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXECUTING A HARDWARE SIMULATION AND VERIFICATION SOLUTION - One embodiment of the present invention provides systems and techniques to execute a hardware simulation and verification solution on a multiprocessor system. The hardware simulation and verification solution can be partitioned into different modules which can include a simulation kernel to simulate changes in signal values, a value change dump module to store the changes in the signal values on a computer-readable storage medium, a functional coverage module to check functionality, a toggle coverage module to check signal toggling, an assertion engine to check complex behaviors, and a testbench module to generate test scenarios. Embodiments of the present invention can execute different modules on different processors, thereby improving performance. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123764 | Computer System, Program, and Method for Assigning Computational Resource to be Used in Simulation - The cost necessary for introducing and maintaining a development environment that includes multiple simulators is suppressed, and a sharing of designing information is promoted, to make parameter adjustment of simulators easy. Provided is a service that unifies development environment on a computer provided with: a working computer system that can guarantee that there is no leaking of designing files; a user behavior monitoring system that collects utilization history of simulators or software, for each of the users, and selects development process of each of the users from the collected information; and a dynamic computational-resource distribution system that can conduct an automatic optimization of a complex simulation configuration, from information collected by the aforementioned user behavior monitoring system. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123765 | Providing Alternative Translations - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting alternative translations. In one aspect, a method includes receiving source language text; receiving translated text corresponding to the source language text from a machine translation system; receiving segmentation data for the translated text, wherein the segmentation data includes a first segmentation of the translated text, the first segmentation dividing the translated text into two or more segments; receiving one or more alternative translations for each of the two or more segments; presenting the source text and the translated text to a user in a user interface; and in response to a user selection of a first portion of the translated text, displaying, in the user interface, one or more alternative translations for a first segment to which the first portion of translated text corresponds according to the first segmentation. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123766 | Indicating and Correcting Errors in Machine Translation Systems - The preferred embodiments provide an automated machine translation from one language to another. The source language may contain expressions or words that are not readily handled by the translation system. Such problematic words or word combinations may, for example, include the words not found in the dictionary of the translation system, as well as text fragments corresponding to structures with low ratings. To improve translation quality, such potentially erroneous words or questionable word combinations are identified by the translation system and displayed to a user by distinctive display styles in the display of a document in the source language and in its translation to a target language. A user is provided with a capability to correct erroneous or questionable words so as to improve the quality of translation. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123767 | AUTOMATICALLY ASSESSING DOCUMENT QUALITY FOR DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DOCUMENTATION - Methods and arrangements for document quality assessment. Documents are accepted and a quality specification containing predetermined quality criteria is assimilated. Each document is assessed based on the predetermined quality criteria, and a quality score is assigned to each document, the quality score being a function of positive and negative attributes assessed for each document. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123768 | 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. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123769 | GAIN CONTROL APPARATUS AND GAIN CONTROL METHOD, AND VOICE OUTPUT APPARATUS - Provided is a technology which adjusts an input signal such that the volume of a conversation or speech contained in a content is substantially constant, thereby alleviating the audience from a burden of making a volume control operation. An acoustic signal processor comprises an acoustic signal storage unit which buffers an acoustic input signal for a predetermined period of time; a voice detection unit which detects a voice section from the buffered acoustic signal; an acoustic signal-to-loudness level transformation which calculates a loudness level from the buffered acoustic signal; a threshold/level comparator which compares the calculated loudness level with a predetermined target level; a voice amplification calculation unit which calculates a gain control amount for the buffered acoustic signal on the basis of the detection and comparison results; and an acoustic signal amplifier which amplifies or dampens the buffered acoustic signal in accordance with the calculated gain control amount. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123770 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING SOUND QUALITY - Disclosed is a method of improving a sound quality, including: receiving a transmission signal of a first user equipment; removing noise in the transmission signal using noise information of the first user equipment side; performing speech reinforcement with respect to the noise removed transmission signal using noise information of a second user equipment side; and transmitting the speech reinforced transmission signal to the second user equipment. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123771 | Method and Apparatus For Wind Noise Detection and Suppression Using Multiple Microphones - Unlike sound based pressure waves that go everywhere, air turbulence caused by wind is usually a fairly local event. Therefore, in a system that utilizes two or more spatially separated microphones to pick up sound signals (e.g., speech), wind noise picked up by one of the microphones often will not be picked up (or at least not to the same extent) by the other microphone(s). Embodiments of methods and apparatuses that utilize this fact and others to effectively detect and suppress wind noise using multiple microphones that are spatially separated are described. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123772 | System and Method for Multi-Channel Noise Suppression Based on Closed-Form Solutions and Estimation of Time-Varying Complex Statistics - Multi-channel noise suppression systems and methods are described that omit the traditional delay-and-sum fixed beamformer in devices that include a primary speech microphone and at least one noise reference microphone with the desired speech being in the near-field of the device. The multi-channel noise suppression systems and methods use a blocking matrix (BM) to remove desired speech in the input speech signal received by the noise reference microphone to get a “cleaner” background noise component. Then, an adaptive noise canceler (ANC) is used to remove the background noise in the input speech signal received by the primary speech microphone based on the “cleaner” background noise component to achieve noise suppression. The filters implemented by the BM and ANC are derived using closed-form solutions that require calculation of time-varying statistics of complex frequency domain signals in the noise suppression system. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123773 | System and Method for Multi-Channel Noise Suppression - Described herein are multi-channel noise suppression systems and methods that are configured to detect and suppress wind and background noise using at least two spatially separated microphones: at least one primary speech microphone and at least one noise reference microphone. The multi-channel noise suppression systems and methods are configured, in at least one example, to first detect and suppress wind noise in the input speech signal picked up by the primary speech microphone and, potentially, the input speech signal picked up by the noise reference microphone. Following wind noise detection and suppression, the multi-channel noise suppression systems and methods are configured to perform further noise suppression in two stages: a first linear processing stage that includes a blocking matrix and an adaptive noise canceler, followed by a second non-linear processing stage. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123774 | APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING JITTER BUFFER - An apparatus, electronic apparatus and method for adjusting jitter buffer is provided. A previous jitter buffer size based on a jitter buffer size determined according to an adaptive jitter buffer size calculation algorithm is applied in predicting a jitter buffer size of future time such that the predicted jitter buffer size is applied to obtain a jitter buffer size of a valid time. The audio quality of the speech transmitted over a packet switched network is enhanced. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123775 | Post-noise suppression processing to improve voice quality - Provided are methods and systems for improving quality of speech communications. The method may be for improving quality of speech communications in a system having a speech encoder configured to encode a first audio signal using a first set of encoding parameters associated with a first noise suppressor. A method may involve receiving a second audio signal at a second noise suppressor which provides much higher quality noise suppression than the first noise suppressor. The second audio signal may be generated by a single microphone or a combination of multiple microphones. The second noise suppressor may suppress the noise in the second audio signal to generate a processed signal which may be sent to a speech encoder. A second set of encoding parameters may be provided by the second noise suppressor for use by the speech encoder when encoding the processed signal into corresponding data. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123776 | ADJUSTING A SPEECH ENGINE FOR A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE BASED ON BACKGROUND NOISE - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for adjusting a speech engine for a mobile computing device based on background noise, the mobile computing device operatively coupled to a microphone, that include: sampling, through the microphone, background noise for a plurality of operating environments in which the mobile computing device operates; generating, for each operating environment, a noise model in dependence upon the sampled background noise for that operating environment; and configuring the speech engine for the mobile computing device with the noise model for the operating environment in which the mobile computing device currently operates. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123777 | ADJUSTING A SPEECH ENGINE FOR A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE BASED ON BACKGROUND NOISE - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for adjusting a speech engine for a mobile computing device based on background noise, the mobile computing device operatively coupled to a microphone, that include: sampling, through the microphone, background noise for a plurality of operating environments in which the mobile computing device operates; generating, for each operating environment, a noise model in dependence upon the sampled background noise for that operating environment; and configuring the speech engine for the mobile computing device with the noise model for the operating environment in which the mobile computing device currently operates. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123778 | Security Control for SMS and MMS Support Using Unified Messaging System - A method and apparatus for providing security control of short messaging service (SMS) messages and multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages in a unified messaging (UM) system are disclosed. An SMS or MMS message directed to a recipient mailbox in a UM system is received. It is determined that the recipient mailbox is a secondary mailbox associated with a primary mailbox in the UM system. The message is audited according to an audit policy associated with the recipient mailbox. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123779 | MOBILE DEVICES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS WITH RELEVANT SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION - Devices, methods, and computer program products are for facilitating enhanced social interactions using a mobile device. A method for facilitating an enhanced social interaction using a mobile device includes receiving an audio input at the mobile device, determining a salient portion of the audio input, receiving relevant information associated with the salient portion, and presenting the relevant information via the mobile device. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123780 | Method and system for video summarization - A video summary method comprises dividing a video into a plurality of video shots, analyzing each frame in a video shot from the plurality of video shots, determining a saliency of each frame of the video shot, determining a key frame of the video shot based on the saliency of each frame of the video shot, extracting visual features from the key frame and performing shot clustering of the plurality of video shots to determine concept patterns based on the visual features. The method further comprises fusing different concept patterns using a saliency tuning method and generating a summary of the video based upon a global optimization method. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123781 | TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE FOR ALLOWING BLIND PEOPLE TO OPERATE OBJECTS DISPLAYED THEREON AND OBJECT OPERATING METHOD IN THE TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - A touch screen device allowing blind people to operate objects displayed thereon and an object operating method in the touch screen device are provided. The touch screen device includes a touch sensing unit generating key values corresponding to touched ‘touch position's of a virtual keyboard for controlling application software being executed, the number of touches and touch time and transmitting the key values to the application software when sensing touches of the virtual keyboard while the virtual keyboard is activated, an object determination unit reading text information of a focused object using hooking mechanism when the application software is executed based on the key values received from the touch sensing unit and the object among objects included in the application software is focused, and a speech synthesis unit converting the text information read by the object determination unit into speech data using a text-to-speech engine and outputting the speech data. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123782 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND CODING METHODS - The present invention is related to a method for coding excitation signal of a target speech comprising the steps of: extracting from a set of training normalised residual frames, a set of relevant normalised residual frames, said training residual frames being extracted from a training speech, synchronised on Glottal Closure Instant (GCI), pitch and energy normalised; determining the target excitation signal of the target speech; dividing said target excitation signal into GCI synchronised target frames; determining the local pitch and energy of the GCI synchronised target frames; normalising the GCI synchronised target frames in both energy and pitch, to obtain target normalised residual frames; determining coefficients of linear combination of said extracted set of relevant normalised residual frames to build synthetic normalised residual frames close to each target normalised residual frames; wherein the coding parameters for each target residual frames comprise the determined coefficients. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123783 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDITING TELECOM WEB APPLICATIONS THROUGH A VOICE INTERFACE - Systems and associated methods for editing telecom web applications through a voice interface are described. Systems and methods provide for editing telecom web applications over a connection, as for example accessed via a standard phone, using speech and/or DTMF inputs. The voice based editing includes exposing an editing interface to a user for a telecom web application that is editable, dynamically generating a voice-based interface for a given user for accomplishing editing tasks, and modifying the telecom web application to reflect the editing commands entered by the user. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123784 | SEQUENCED MULTI-MEANING TACTILE SYMBOLS USEABLE TO PRODUCE SYNTHETIC PLURAL WORD MESSAGES INCLUDING WORDS, PHRASES AND SENTENCES - An embodiment of the present application is directed to a method including providing a keyboard, including a plurality of keys, at least some of the keys including polysemous symbols which provide distinctive tactile feedback to a user; and accessing a word, phoneme or plural word message, based upon sequentially selected ones of the polysemous symbols providing distinctive tactile feedback. Another embodiment of the present application is directed to a system, including a keyboard, including a plurality of keys, at least some of the keys including polysemous symbols which provide distinctive tactile feedback to a user; and a processor to access a word, phoneme or plural word message, based upon sequentially selected ones of the polysemous symbols providing distinctive tactile feedback. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123785 | VOICE APPLICATION NETWORK PLATFORM - A distributed voice applications system includes a voice applications rendering agent and at least one voice applications agent that is configured to provide voice applications to an individual user. A management system may control and direct the voice applications rendering agent to create voice applications that are personalized for individual users based on user characteristics, information about the environment in which the voice applications will be performed, prior user interactions and other information. The voice applications agent and components of customized voice applications may be resident on a local user device which includes a voice browser and speech recognition capabilities. The local device, voice applications rendering agent and management system may be interconnected via a communications network. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123786 | Method for identifying and protecting information - A method for identifying and authenticating a user and protecting information. The identification process is enabled by using a mobile device such as a smartphone, laptop, or thin client device. A user speaks a phrase to create an audio voiceprint while a camera streams video images and creates a video print. The video data is converted to a color band calculated pattern to numbers. The audio voiceprint, video print, and color band are registered in a database as a digital fingerprint. Processing of all audio and video input occurs on a human key system server so there is not usage by the thin client systems used by the user to access the human key server for authentication and verification. When a user registers an audio and video fingerprint is created and stored in the database as reference to identify that individual for the purpose of verification. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123787 | AUDIOAUDIO FORMAT CONVERTING APPARATUS AND AUDIOAUDIO FORMAT CONVERTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, there is provided a audio format converting apparatus including a audio data dividing unit, first to Nth audio format converting units, and a audio data connecting unit. The audio data dividing unit creates first to Nth divided audio streams from an input audio stream, and adds the same frames as a predetermined number of frames from the head of the (i+1)th divided audio stream to the end of an i-th divided audio stream (i=1,2, to N−1). The first to Nth audio format converting units subject the first to Nth divided audio streams to audio format converting processing in parallel, so as to produce first to Nth converted audio streams. The audio data connecting unit discards the predetermined number of frames from the head of each of the second to Nth converted audio streams, and sequentially connects the first to Nth converted audio streams. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123788 | CODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, AND DEVICE AND PROGRAM USING THE METHODS - A high-quality decoded signal is synthesized. A coding method of the present invention includes a local decoding coefficient searching step. The local decoding coefficient searching step includes a replication determining sub-step, a candidate replication shift signal sequence generating sub-step, a distance calculating sub-step, and a minimum distance shift amount finding sub-step. The replication determining sub-step determines, for each source signal sequence to be coded, whether or not a candidate replication shift signal sequence is to be generated from a decoded signal sequence and outputs a replication determination flag. If the replication determination flag indicates that a candidate replication shift signal sequence is to be generated, the candidate replication shift signal sequence generating sub-step generates a candidate replication shift signal sequence for each predetermined candidate signal shift amounts. The distance calculating sub-step calculates a parameter representing the distance between predetermined signal sequences. The minimum distance shift amount finding step obtains a signal shift amount that minimizes the distance. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123789 | System and Method for Facilitating Healthcare Volunteering - Computer-implemented methods and systems for connecting and facilitating communication among healthcare volunteers, organizations, patients and donors are disclosed. A matching system to match volunteers, donors, organizations and patients to coordinate and manage providing low cost or free health care services is disclosed. An donation inventory management system is also disclosed. Dynamic volunteer coordination methods for responding to public health events are also disclosed. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123790 | MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING AND PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a method of scheduling and paying for visits with a medical professional. Specifically the present invention relates to a web based appointment service that relies on prepayment to schedule appointments from available doctors. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123791 | Personalized Coordinated Perinatal Care System - A system to provide personalized coordinated perinatal care for a woman and her baby. It includes an electronic database on an internet-connected server comprising a comprehensive list of perinatal care services and at least a first completed detailed questionnaire about a woman's personal situation. A comprehensive perinatal risk-scoring and selection algorithm in electronic communication with each questionnaire can both assign a perinatal care risk category to the questionnaire and assemble a comprehensive list of services based on the woman's personal situation. Also, an electronic database contains a list of contracted vendors who have agreed to perform each perinatal care service. Finally, a matching algorithm in communication with the databases and the algorithm is configured to match the comprehensive list of services with the contracted vendors that have agreed to perform them to generate at least one bundled list that most closely matches the needed services with the woman's personal situation. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123792 | SYSTEM FOR MAKING AVAILABLE INDIVIDUAL OR POOLED, ALSO ANONYMOUS PATIENT DATA ON THE BASIS OF MOLECULAR GENOME, TRANSCRIPTOME, PROTEOME, EPIGENOME, OR METABOLOME DATA - The invention relates to a system for automatically, rapidly, and dynamically funding biological cells for transplantion, treatment, or research purposes between collection centers or banks (storage places) and hospitals, transplant centers, or research facilities, monitoring and assisting with processes from the transmission of requests, the delivery of cell preparation suitable for allogeneic transplantation, and the use of the found preparations to the monitoring of the result in the patient, and making said data available for statistical and other purposes, wherein samples are taken before and after the transplantation to analyze genomes, proteomes, transcriptomes, epigenomes, and/or metbolomes. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123793 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT FOR PATIENT BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION - Apparatus, computer readable medium, and a method for clinician decision support for behavior modification of a patient, the method including in response to receiving information identifying the patient, retrieving stored patient data from a database, and displaying portions of the retrieved patient data for a clinician to update during a clinical session; and, in response to receiving a selection for finding a new target behavior to achieve the goals of the patient, displaying a plurality of target behaviors for the patient to achieve the goals of the patient; and, in response to receiving a selection of one of the plurality of displayed target behaviors as the new target behavior, adding the selected one of the plurality of displayed target behaviors to the target behaviors of the patient. The method may facilitate the conduct of behavioral modification counseling by eliciting patient feedback and recording patient progress in negotiated tasks. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123794 | Method and System for Adjudicating Claims in a Health Services Environment - Methods and systems for adjudicating claims in health services environments are presented. An exemplary method for processing service provider claims for payment includes scheduling appointments with service providers, receiving claims from the service providers, determining whether at least one scheduled appointment corresponds with at least one received claim and determining that at least one scheduled appointment has not been identified as corresponding to at least one received claim within a predetermined period of time. Optionally, the method includes presenting the particular received claim for payment when at least one of the scheduled appointments corresponds to the particular received claim. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123795 | Business method and system for ordering, purchasing and storing stem cells - An online business method and system enables donors or parents or guardians of donors to order and purchase stem-cells extracted from biological tissue sampled from the donor, such as, for example, cord-blood stem cells of a newborn baby, wherein the ordering process interfaces directly with the attending medical services, and the service steps include collection, extraction, preservation, containment, packaging, delivery and storage of the stem cells in a storage medium that can be cost-effectively maintained in a storage facility or by the donor, parent or guardian at home. In one embodiment, preservation is by freeze-drying, containment is in a vacuum vial, and storage is at room temperature. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123796 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSUMPTION AND UTILIZATION ANALYSIS IN AN ORGANIZATION - A method and system for analyzing consumption and utilization patterns of organizations. The usage of materials and the behavior of people is tracked in an organization. These factors are analyzed and used in order to reduce the costs associated with usage of materials and services. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123797 | SYSTEM FOR MEDIA RECOMMENDATION BASED ON HEALTH INDEX - A system for providing health information is provided. The system includes a wellbeing-index (WI) providing unit and a recommendation media providing unit. The WI providing unit receives a user's health information obtained through one or more health information measuring devices and calculates a WI indicating the user's health condition based on the health information. The recommendation media providing unit provides a recommendation media content suitable for the user based on the WI providing unit. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123798 | Health Care Financing Systems And Methods For Determination Of The Patient Specific Prospective Lump Sum Payment For An Episode Of Care Arising From An Insurable Event - This invention includes a health savings and financial application that analyzes an electronic medical record with patient data and with protocol and complexity data to determine if there is a new insurable event. If no, then the patient pays for discretionary care. However, if there is a nondiscretionary insurable event, then the medical record is used to relate the actual severity of the primary morbidity, co-morbidities, specific diagnosis and treatment, and local market factors matched with the complexity levels developed by specialists and matched for the subject patient to create an appropriate protocol at the appropriate complexity level by a matching algorithm. This match is communicated to the insurer or a healthcare manager and triggers payment by the selected complexity level of a particular protocol as a lump sum into the patient's health savings account. This lump sum payment represents an appropriate budget that enables the patient to pay all anticipated expenses arising from that insurable event or events directly to the providers, hospitals, and pharmacies of his choice. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123799 | INTERACTIVE ORGAN DIAGRAMS - An interactive organ diagram facilitates that input of clinically-related data regarding the condition of a patient's organ and storage of the clinically-related data in a patient's electronic medical record. The interactive organ diagram includes a graphical depiction of an organ with data entry elements that allow for the entry of data directly within the graphical depiction of the organ. After a pathologist or other clinician enters data directly within the graphical depiction of the organ, data from the interactive organ diagram may be stored in the patient's electronic medical record. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123800 | PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM HAVING A PATIENT HISTORY SLIDER - A patient monitoring system designed to monitor a patient located in a home or residence and to provide information to a health care manager located at a healthcare facility. The system includes a base station configured to be located at a residence or home of a patient. The base station has an input for receiving physiological measurements from sensor connected to a patient. A computer system located remotely from the patient's home or residence receives information from the base station over a network. The computer system performs an automated risk assessment of the physiological data, and generates a graphical user interface having a patient history slider. The computer system, in response to movement of the slider, updates a session time frame, updates a trend of physiological measurements, and updates the results of an automated risk assessment. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123801 | PET/CT BASED MONITORING SYSTEM SUPPORTED BY A CLINICAL GUIDELINE NAVIGATOR - An oncology monitoring system comprises: an image analysis module ( | 2012-05-17 |
20120123802 | System and Method for Utilizing Incentives to Promote Patient Compliance and Improve Patient Outcome - The invention generally relates to a system and method for utilizing incentives to promote patient education and compliance. More particularly, the present invention provides a user-accessible website in which various rewards are provide to a patient upon completion of various education and other health-related tasks in order to promote education, health-management, and compliance. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123803 | Method and System for Transforming Patient Care - A method and system of transforming patient care including a multi-disciplinary strategy consisting of the adoption of a “code” alert used to mobilize and coordinate all treatment caregivers, improve regional paramedic education, and a database to track the progress of a patient as they move through the emergency medical system is described. In an effort to reduce the elapsed time from when the patient first encounters medical providers to the time of treatment, the time intervals during a patient's treatment travel are tracked and analyzed to highlight areas that need to be improved upon. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123804 | Systems and Methods for Providing an Inducement to Purchase Incident to a Physician's Prescription of Medication - Systems and methods for providing targeted content to a patient who has received a prescription for medication. The systems and methods generally provide the content prior to the Point of Sale (POS) of the actual prescription allow patients to review the content and possibly act on it prior to actually obtaining the medication. Depending on embodiment, the content may be provided by a pharmacy at or around the time of dispensing or by a physician at or around the time of prescribing. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123805 | COLLECTION OF MEDICAL DATA - A system for collecting medical data includes a database server programmed to receive data in a number of different formats from respective different data sources. The database server is connectable to a communications network. A number of remote data collection arrangements are associated with respective medical operators and each is configured to permit said respective medical operators to input medical data relating to a medical condition of a patient into the data collection arrangement and to write the medical data to the database server via the communications network. The database server is configured to receive the medical data and to generate an electronic record representing a compilation of different items of the medical data. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123806 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SAFETY SCORE ASSOCIATED WITH A USER LOCATION - Pursuant to some embodiments, insurance systems, methods and devices are provided which include a data storage device for storing, updating and providing access to loss risk score data. In some embodiments, a request for information associated with a user's location identified by user location data may be received over a communications network. A computer processing system may then be operated to generate a safety score associated with said use location data, the safety score being based on a plurality of loss risk factors associated with the user location data. A response, including the safety score, may then be transmitted to the user over the communications network. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123807 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR ENTERPRISE BILLING AND ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE - Systems, apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture provide for an integrated operations management system for revenue management and/or billing and accounts receivable (e.g., in an insurance or other financial context). In some embodiments, an operations management system provides for determining a complexity rating for an account (e.g., a loss sensitive insurance account). In some embodiments, the complexity rating may be based on respective answers (e.g., provided by an end user) to one or more survey questions. In some embodiments, the complexity rating may be used for determining a billing priority rating for an account. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123808 | Systems and Methods for Insurance Verification - Systems and methods for verifying insurance coverage are provided. A method may include registering data for one or more users, the data including information designating one or more insurance providers for the users. The method may further include transmitting, via a communications network, an insurance verification request to the designated insurance providers, the insurance verification indicating one or more insurance requirements for the user. The communications network may be the internet. A response to the insurance verification request from the designated insurance providers may be received via the communications network. The response may indicate whether insurance associated with the user complies with the one or more insurance requirements. One or more notifications regarding whether the insurance associated with the user complies with the one or more insurance requirements may be transmitted. The insurance verification request may be retransmitted so as to re-verify the user complies with the insurance requirements. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123809 | System and Method for Processing Data Related to Insurance Coverage for a Plurality of Risks - A computer system for processing of data associated with insurance coverage includes a data storage device storing data indicative of: an insured; an aggregate benefit amount, the aggregate benefit amount being a maximum benefit amount payable under the insurance coverage; a first category of health risks; a second category of health risks; a first benefit allocation corresponding to the first category of health risks; and a second benefit allocation corresponding to the second category of health risks; the benefit allocations being fractions of and totaling the aggregate benefit amount. A processor of the system is configured to, responsive to the receipt of data indicative of a claim, determine eligibility for a benefit, and responsive to determining that the insured is eligible, provide output data indicative of a benefit amount, the benefit amount for each of the categories of health risks having a maximum equal to the corresponding benefit allocation. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123810 | Using Commercial Share of Wallet to Manage Vendors - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Government agencies, procurement departments, and others that patronize small businesses can use CSoW/CSoSW to determine businesses that should be awarded contracts and businesses that should be denied. CSoW/CSoSW may also be used to manage approved vendor lists. | 2012-05-17 |
20120123811 | Interactive live political events - An interactive political event allows clients to provide feedback to political candidates speakers and/or event producers relative to the event being observed. Feedback options include shout outs, emotapplause, and voting. Ticket scarcity management system adjusts event marketing, and/or ticketed sales methodologies, which include free and paid to maintain optimal conditions for an interactive political event. Multiple video/audio streams of an interactive event are simultaneously distributed as part of a broadcast to enable switching between streams by the online audience members and/or users without interruption of the presentation of the event and may include additional data relative to a candidates and/or speakers history and/or position with respect to issues being debated and/or discussed. | 2012-05-17 |