32nd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090198467 | Measuring Clock Jitter - The invention provides a technique of correcting time data based on a clock signal affected by jitter. The error due to jitter in a time measurement of an event in the clock signal ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090198468 | Calibration of Optical Line Shortening Measurements - A system and method of calibrating optical line shortening measurements, and lithography mask for same. The lithography mask comprises a plurality of gratings, with a calibration marker disposed within each grating. The mask is used to pattern resist on a semiconductor wafer for purposes of measuring and calibrating line shortening. The pattern on the wafer is measured and compared to measurements made of the pattern on the mask. The difference gives the amount of line shortening due to flare, and may be used to calibrate line shortening measurements made using optical measurement tools. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198469 | Method and System for Compensating Temperature Readings from a Temperature Sensing Crystal Integrated Circuit - Aspects of a method and system for compensating temperature readings from a temperature sensing crystal integrated circuit are provided. In this regard, a temperature indication and calibration voltages from a temperature sensing crystal integrated circuit (TSCIC) may be digitized and the digital signals may be utilized to calculate a compensated temperature indication. Data derived from a memory integrated within the TSCIC may be retrieved based on the compensated temperature indication. The retrieved data may be utilized to control operation of one or more circuits. The compensated temperature indication may be calculated by removing a gain error and/or offset error from the digitized temperature indication. The compensated temperature indication may be utilized as an index for a data table. The compensated temperature indication may be a normalized compensated temperature indication. The calibration voltages may comprise a minimum voltage and/or a maximum voltage that the TSCIC is operable to output. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198470 | Method for optimizing an accelerated scaled stress test - The invention concerns a method for defining scaled stresses indicating an estimation of the product reliability with maximum accuracy. It comprises a phase which consists in inputting characteristic parameters ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090198471 | Method and device of autonomous determination of angle of drift of the moving object - The present technical solution provided is intended for the accurate determination of angle of drift only by the means located inside the moving object, without applying any radiations and gyroscopes as well as without using any sources of information and orientation on the Earth and on any other heavenly bodies. The determination of such kind is provided for the first time and is considered to be of paramount importance for the navigational and meteorological purposes. The present solution is based on the determination of the horizontal projections of the linear acceleration vector by means of the sensors of said acceleration, they being developed by the authors earlier. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198472 | PROBE STRAIGHTNESS MEASURING METHOD - A probe straightness measuring method includes: placing a measurement jig having a measurement reference surface with a known profile error on a stage surface of an XY stage so that the measurement reference surface is slanted in a moving direction of the XY stage; measuring a displaced position of the measurement piece by a displacement detector of the probe each time the XY stage is moved for a predetermined distance while controlling a driving actuator so that the measurement piece of a probe touches the measurement reference surface at a constant pressure; and calculating a straightness error of a measurement-piece moving mechanism on a basis of a measured position of the measurement piece obtained in the measuring, a nominal position of the measurement piece obtained by a calculation and a slant angle of the measurement reference surface. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198473 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY USING SOFTWARE MODULE PERFORMANCE STATISTICS - A method and system for predicting performance and capacity of an information technology (IT) system before the IT system is built, where the predicting uses a database of performance statistics measured for reusable software modules. A performance simulation modeling tool receives a set of performance statistics of a test computer. The set of performance statistics is associated with a set of software modules included in a library of reusable software modules. The set of software modules is required to build a target IT system. The set of performance statistics is received from a database of performance statistics resulting from individual executions on the test computer of each reusable software module in the library. The performance simulation modeling tool predicts computing resources required by the target IT system. The computing resources prediction follows the receipt of the set of performance statistics and precedes the target IT system being built. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198474 | Method and apparatus for analysis and assessment of measurement data of a measurement system - A method for analysis and assessment of measurement data of a measurement system having at least one measurement channel provides for the assessment of the measurement data at freely selectable times and over a freely selectable period on the basis of at least one of a plurality of predeterminable criteria. In order in this case to develop a central and generally applicable measurement data diagnosis, in which any desired number of measurement channels can be monitored at the same time with little effort and with good result representation, preferably with determination of the faulty channels, the raw data of the measurement channel is supplied to a fault isolation stage and then to a fault classification stage, and a measure is then determined for the quality of the measurement data of the respective measurement channel. An input for the raw data of the measurement channel as well as a unit in which a fault isolation stage and then a fault classification stage are implemented are provided for this purpose in the apparatus for analysis and assessment of measurement data of a measurement system. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198475 | Analysis system and analysis server - An analysis sever capable of performing analysis among a large amount of sensor data in order to obtain an analysis result that a reader desires and outputting the result instantaneously. The analysis server rearranges the sensor data acquired from a sensor node into time series data. The analysis is performed separately for time trigger analysis (D) and for event trigger analysis (F) depending on analysis contents. In the time trigger analysis (D), analysis processing that is basically needed when visualizing a state of an organization is performed. In the event trigger analysis (F), an analysis result obtained by the time trigger analysis (D) is processed using the reader's desired information and is outputted. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198476 | 4-D Inversion Of Geophysical Data And 4-D Imaging Method Of Geological Structure Using It - The method for 4-D inversion of geophysical data for calculating distribution of subsurface material properties from geophysical data includes (a) defining measured data into space-time coordinates, and defining a reference space-time model vector (U) composed of many reference space model vectors (U) for a plurality of pre-selected reference times to simulate a space-time model vector (P) that is a geologic structure continuously changing in time; (b) approximating a numerical modeling for a geologic structure space model at an arbitrary time using Taylor series of numerical modeling for the reference space models, defining an objective inversion function to constrain each inversion in space and time domains, and obtaining a reference space-time model vector (U) from the measured data defined in space-time coordinates using the objective inversion function; and (c) obtaining a space-time model vector (P) from the reference space-time model vector (U) to calculate distribution of subsurface material properties changing in time. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198477 | Method For Comparing And Back Allocating Production - Methods and system for incorporating downhole and surface data with models and adjustment algorithms to back allocate flow rates of commingled zones. The models include fluid flow in the reservoir and wellbore, pressure drop across a choke, and fluid flow in the well completion. The models are coupled with an algorithm for comparing the results from the individual commingled zones to the total cumulative commingled volume and adjusting at least one predicted rate so that they match the measured flow rate over a specified time period. One method utilizes a reassignment factor for the adjustment of the predicted rates. These comparisons and allocation adjustments can be accomplished even when the frequency of the commingled flow rate and cumulative measurements, and the frequency of the predicted rates from the model differ from each other and the specified time period. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198478 | OILFIELD EMULATOR - A method for performing oilfield operations for an oilfield. The method includes receiving modeling data and user instructions from a graphical user interface, selectively adjusting at least a portion of the modeling data to generate adjusted modeling data, obtaining an oilfield model based on the user instructions, instantiating first and second simulator instances based on the user instructions for performing a simulation using the adjusted modeling data and the oilfield model, passing interim simulation results between the first and second simulator instances for performing the simulation, displaying a result of the simulation using the graphical user interface, and performing the oilfield operations based on the result of the simulation. Further, the oilfield operations include a gas lift operation of the oilfield and the graphical user interface is configured to emulate the gas lift operation using a wellbore simulator. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198479 | METHODS TO DESIGN PROBES AND PRIMERS - A web-based computational system and method for high-throughput gene mining and target identification and validation based on conserved functional blocks automates the generation of conserved regions of high sequence similarity using algorithms and optimizes probe design for fragment amplification from homologous genomes. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198480 | System and method for simulating conciousness - A simulated consciousness method ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090198481 | BUSINESS PROCESS OPTIMIZER - A system and method for optimizing enterprise applications driven by business processes is provided. The method for optimizing business processes comprises the steps of obtaining process data, optimizing the process data using algorithms, simulating execution of one of the process data and the optimized process data, publishing the optimized process data, and deploying the published data for execution using a run time engine. In one embodiment, the simulator simulates using both process data and optimized process data. Modifications to process data can be input, and this modified data can be simulated, and also can be optimized. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198482 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING APPLICATION PERFORMANCE - A method for identifying and evaluating potential computer network configuration problems as related to deployment of one or more computer applications accessed via an associated computer network architecture is described. The method includes emulating the computer network architecture and a capability associated with network interconnections between computer application points of use and associated with the computer network architecture, identifying computer applications hosted at each of the computer systems within the computer architecture, estimating response times for hosted computer applications for a plurality of network architecture interconnection conditions, and determining, based on the response time estimates, at least one network architecture reconfiguration scenario for improving performance of the network architecture with respect to a specific computer application. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198483 | Apparatus and method for network emulation by using hardware accelerated network interface cards - This invention is an apparatus and a method to emulate packet networks at maximum network physical layer speeds by using hardware accelerated network interfaces cards (HANIC) in a host computer system. The system emulates packet network characteristics by introducing all possible impairments such as latency, packet loss, bandwidth throttling to packets traffic traversing the system. As the packet processing is mostly performed by the HANIC, packets can be processed and forwarded at theoretical maximum speed (wire speed) of the network connections. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198484 | SCALABLE AUTOMATED EMPIRICAL TESTING OF MEDIA FILES ON MEDIA PLAYERS - Scalable empirical testing of media file playback utilizes test hooks in each media player to support simulated human interaction and playback monitoring. A media crawler catalogs media files accumulated in a media file database to create a wordlist. One or more scalable instances of media tester accesses the wordlist to select items of work linked to media files. Work items and/or operating modes of media tester specify test parameters such as performance profiles or further define testing such as specifying repetitious playback on one or more media players. Media files are downloaded to and played by a scalable number of media players. Playback performance is monitored, analyzed and reported. Failure reports are accompanied by instructions to reproduce failures and cross-references to content or source code in media files. Failures can be audited by additional work items for follow-up testing. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198485 | Integrated circults to control access to multiple layers of memory in a solid state drive - Circuits to control access to memory; for example, third dimension memory are disclosed. An integrated circuit (IC) may be configured to control access to memory cells. For example, the IC may include a memory having memory cells that are vertically disposed in multiple layers of memory. The IC may include a memory access circuit configured to control access to a first subset of the memory cells in response to access control data in a second subset of the memory cells. Each memory cell may include a non-volatile two-terminal memory element that stores data as a plurality of conductivity profiles that can be non-destructively sensed by applying a read voltage across the two terminals of the memory element. New data can be written by applying a write voltage across the two terminals of the memory element. The two-terminal memory elements can be arranged in a two-terminal cross-point array configuration. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198486 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC APPARATUS WITH TRANSLATION FUNCTION AND TRANSLATION METHOD USING THE SAME - A handheld electronic apparatus with a translation function comprises an image-capturing device, an image recognition device, a language translator and a display device. The image-capturing device, e.g., a digital camera, is configured to take an image having a text portion of one or more words or sentences, and the image may be shown on the display device. The image recognition device is configured to recognize the text portion to be in a first language. For example, the recognition uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology. The language translator is configured to translate the text portion in the first language into a second language, and the text portion in the second language is shown on the display device. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198487 | Community Translation On A Social Network - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for translating text in a social network. In one embodiment translations of text phrases are received from members of the social network. These text phrases include content displayed in a social networking system, such as content from social networking objects. A particular member is provided with content including a text phrase in a first language, and the member requests translation into another language. Responsive to this request, a translation of the text phrase is selected from a set of available translations. The selection is based on actions by friends of the member in the social network, the actions being associated with the set of available translations. These actions can the viewing of or approval of translations by the friends, for example. The selected translation is then presented to the member requesting the translation. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198488 | System and method for analyzing communications using multi-placement hierarchical structures - A system and method are provided for analyzing communications to disambiguate the meaning of the analyzed communications using placements into a fixed hierarchical structure based on the words, position and grammar of the communications. The disambiguated meaning of the communications can be used in conjunction with other functional programs (e.g., search engines, email, word processing). The system and method may further analyze communications associated with a communicator to determine a profile (attributes, preferences, relationships, trends, ratios) for the communicator indicated by the communications. Automated communications can be generated to match the attributes of any communicator's preferences stored in their profile, to match the attributes of other communications, or to match certain standards. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198489 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FREQUENCY ENCODING, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FREQUENCY DECODING - Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding the frequency of a continuation sinusoidal signal and a method and apparatus for decoding the same. In the encoding method, a continuation sinusoidal signal successive to a sinusoidal signal in a previous section is extracted from a current section; a frequency of the continuation sinusoidal signal at the boundary between the current and previous sections is changed to a first frequency, based on representative frequencies of the continuation sinusoidal signal and at least one sinusoidal signal that belongs to a section adjacent to the current section and is successive to the continuation sinusoidal signal; and the first frequency is encoded. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198490 | RESPONSE TIME WHEN USING A DUAL FACTOR END OF UTTERANCE DETERMINATION TECHNIQUE - The present invention discloses a solution for a speech processing system to determine end-of-utterance (EOU) events. The solution is a modified dual factor technique, where one factor is based upon a number of silence frames received and a second factor is based upon an end-of-path occurrence. The solution permits a set of configurable timeout delay values to be established, which can be configured on an application specific basis by application developers. The solution can speed up EOU determinations made through a dual factor technique, by situationally making finalization determination before a silence frame window is full. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198491 | LSP VECTOR QUANTIZATION APPARATUS, LSP VECTOR INVERSE-QUANTIZATION APPARATUS, AND THEIR METHODS - Disclosed is an LPC vector quantization device capable of quantizing an LSP vector by using correlation between divided vectors. The device includes: a vector dividing unit ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090198492 | ADAPTIVE NOISE MODELING SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - An adaptive noise modeling speech recognition system improves speech recognition by modifying an activation of the system's grammar rules or models based on detected noise characteristics. An adaptive noise modeling speech recognition system includes a sensor that receives acoustic data having a speech component and a noise component. A processor analyzes the acoustic data and generates a noise indicator that identifies a characteristic of the noise component. An integrating decision logic processes the noise indicator and generates a noise model activation data structure that includes data that may be used by a speech recognition engine to adjust the activation of associated grammar rules or models. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198493 | System and Method for Unsupervised and Active Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition - A system and method is provided for combining active and unsupervised learning for automatic speech recognition. This process enables a reduction in the amount of human supervision required for training acoustic and language models and an increase in the performance given the transcribed and un-transcribed data. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198494 | RESOURCE CONSERVATIVE TRANSFORMATION BASED UNSUPERVISED SPEAKER ADAPTATION - The present invention discloses a solution for conserving computing resources when implementing transformation based adaptation techniques. The disclosed solution limits the amount of speech data used by real-time adaptation algorithms to compute a transformation, which results in substantial computational savings. Appreciably, application of a transform is a relatively low memory and computationally cheap process compared to memory and resource requirements for computing the transform to be applied. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198495 | VOICE SITUATION DATA CREATING DEVICE, VOICE SITUATION VISUALIZING DEVICE, VOICE SITUATION DATA EDITING DEVICE, VOICE DATA REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND VOICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A voice situation data creating device for providing the user with data with a good convenience for the user when the user uses voice data collected from sound sources and recorded with time. A direction/talker identifying section ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090198496 | Aspect oriented programmable dialogue manager and apparatus operated thereby - A dialogue system enabling a natural language interaction between a user and a machine having a script interpreter capable of executing dialogue specifications formed according to the rules of an aspect oriented programming language. The script interpreter further contains an advice executor which operates in a weaver type fashion using an appropriately defined select function to determine at most one advice to be executed at join points identified by pointcuts. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198497 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS OF TEXT MESSAGE - Provided is a method and apparatus for speech synthesis of a text message. The method includes receiving input of voice parameters for a text message, storing each of the text message and the input voice parameters in a data packet, and transmitting the data packet to a receiving terminal. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198498 | Method and Apparatus for Estimating High-Band Energy in a Bandwidth Extension System | 2009-08-06 |
20090198499 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING RESIDUAL SIGNALS AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING RESIDUAL SIGNALS - Encoding and decoding of residual signals are provided. In a method of encoding a residual signal of an audio signal, the residual signal is divided into a plurality of sections having different sizes, based on a change of the residual signal. Then, section division information representing information about the divided sections and section-by-section residual signal information representing characteristics of the sections of the residual signal are acquired. Thereafter, the residual signal is encoded based on the section division information and the section-by-section residual signal information. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198500 | TEMPORAL MASKING IN AUDIO CODING BASED ON SPECTRAL DYNAMICS IN FREQUENCY SUB-BANDS - An audio coding technique based on modeling spectral dynamics is disclosed. Frequency decomposition of an input audio signal is performed to obtain multiple frequency sub-bands that closely follow critical bands of human auditory system decomposition. Each sub-band is then frequency transformed and linear prediction is applied. This results in a Hilbert envelope and a Hilbert Carrier for each of the sub-bands. Because of application of linear prediction to frequency components, the technique is called Frequency Domain Linear Prediction (FDLP). The Hilbert envelope and the Hilbert Carrier are analogous to spectral envelope and excitation signals in the Time Domain Linear Prediction (TDLP) techniques. Temporal masking is applied to the FDLP sub-bands to improve the compression efficiency. Specifically, forward masking of the sub-band FDLP carrier signal can be employed to improve compression efficiency of an encoded signal. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198501 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING AUDIO SIGNAL USING ADAPTIVE LPC COEFFICIENT INTERPOLATION - Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding an audio signal by adaptively interpolating a linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficient. In the method and apparatus of encoding or decoding an audio signal, LPC coefficient interpolation is selectively performed depending on whether a transient section is present in a current frame, thereby preventing noise from occurring when interpolating LPC coefficients in the transient section. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED RADIO FREQUENCY SAFETY AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AT WIRELESS TRANSMISSION SITES - Maintaining information about radio transmission sites in a computer accessible database. In one aspect this is a living database consisting of hundreds of thousands of wireless sites and their unique characteristics. The database includes energy transmissions information including site specific physical locations and utilization characteristics of the sites. The System can deliver MPE maps of radio frequency radiation and site specific safety programs to any worker visiting a wireless site in the United States. These maps (and site's specific safety programs) are updated on a daily basis. The System can be accessed via the Internet by registered users. The System creates and displays MPE maps and radiation pattern maps showing gradation power densities to identify exposure dangers. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198503 | ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF DELIVERED ARTICLE BY INTENDED RECEIVER - A method, system and computer program product for acknowledging receipt of an article by an intended receiver are disclosed. A method may comprise: communicating a receiver identification to the intended receiver; providing a mechanism to request an actual receiver of the article to provide the receiver identification; in response to that the actual receiver provides the receiver identification, generating a digital signature based on a combination of the receiver identification and an identification of the article; and acknowledging the receipt of the article by the intended receiver based on the digital signature. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198504 | RATER RESOURCE ALLOCATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods of allocating raters to assessment visits of studies, and tangible computer readable media including software that is adapted to control a computer to implement methods of allocating raters to assessment visits of studies, are provided. Raters are allocated by retrieving blinding information that includes at least one blinding criterion for a visit of a study, retrieving rater information for at least one rater associated with the study, comparing the retrieved rater information and the retrieved blinding information to identify one or more raters meeting the at least one blinding criterion and enabling selection of the identified one or more raters for allocation to the visit of the study. A rater may then be allocated to the visit by receiving a selection for at least one of the identified raters and allocating the at least one rater to the visit responsive to the received selection. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198505 | INTERACTIVE PATH PLANNING WITH DYNAMIC COSTING - An interactive path planning system supports a designer's efforts to manually optimize routes for cost, constructability, environmental considerations, and the like. This permits a user to manually seek optimizations of a route cost that are not be available through automated cost optimization algorithms and techniques. Moreover, this may permit the user to experiment with alternate route paths while being provided with cost information via the interface. The interface may provide cost calculations based upon the true route geometry that will be employed to physically construct the route, rather than a computational model employed during an interactive design process. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198506 | Network-Based System for Enhancing Cooperation Among Persons Engaged in an Enterprise - A network-based system for enhancing cooperation among persons engaged in an enterprise includes a server coupled to the network executing software providing one or more interactive displays on computerized appliances operated by the persons. and a data repository accessible to the server, the data repository storing enterprise-related profiles for individual ones of the persons, including at least enterprise-related activity of the persons, wherein the system relates persons in the data repository in activity-related communities, and enables individual persons in the enterprise to view profiles in community collections. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198507 | BEHAVIOR-BASED WEB PAGE GENERATION MARKETING SYSTEM - One feature provides a configurable system that allows web site operators/administrators to dynamically identify consumer behavior, formulate different marketing strategies for the same product depending on consumer triggers, and dynamically generating web pages that present different marketing content to consumers based on their segments. Such configurable system may implement behavior-based targeting (BBT) where different marketing strategies for the same product or service may be defined by a web administrator, and different marketing content may be presented to consumers of the same product based on their identified behavior or interests. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198508 | ELECTRONIC PRICE TAG DEVICE, POP DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC PRICE TAG DEVICE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC PRICE TAG DEVICE - The present invention provides a solution to the following problem: when using an electronic price tag device attached to a POP panel, an advertising content of the POP panel may be inconsistent with a price displayed on the electronic price tag device, and such inconsistency is left as is until a person in charge of a store site notices that. An electronic price tag device | 2009-08-06 |
20090198509 | Method and systems for connecting service providers and service purchasers - Service providers, service purchasers, and interested third parties may link combined expectations, resulting in real insight and greater satisfaction for all involved. A ranking of service providers is obtained from past service purchasers, the ranking comprising emotive satisfaction ratings of pre-selected attributes. Individual profiles for service providers are generated that comprise an emotive satisfaction rating value of pre-selected attributes. An emotive profile is obtained from a potential service purchaser that comprises the potential purchaser's assignment of an importance value to pre-selected attributes, and a list of service providers is provided to the potential service purchasers based on a correlation of the emotive profile and the emotive satisfaction rating values of service providers. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198510 | Prescription refill reminder system and method - A system and method for subscriber reminders. The method includes receiving, from a plurality of customers, prescription refill data. The method also includes processing the prescription refill data according to business rules. The method also includes sending, to a subscriber, a prescription refill reminder according to the prescription refill data and the business rules. The method also includes sending, to the subscriber, advertising data corresponding to the prescription refill reminder. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198511 | Methods and Systems for Collecting and Analyzing Medical Data - The invention provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing medical data of a database, the medical data relating to diseases, and symptoms related to the diseases, said method including, Requesting an individual user to input data descriptive of a symptom; searching the database for data descriptive of diseases related to the inputted data descriptive of the symptom; generating a report listing diseases which are related to the inputted data descriptive of the symptom; associating a frequency indication to the each of the listed diseases, the frequency indication being representative of the frequency of reported associations of the respective listed disease; outputting the report with the frequency indication associated with each of the listed diseases. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198512 | MEDICAL FILE CARRIER COVER - A method of storing a medical file carrier in a healthcare facility includes disposing a first portion of the medical file carrier in a first pocket of a removable carrier cover, substantially covering an outer surface of the medical file carrier with a surface of the carrier cover, and defining a non-covered region exposing a second portion of the medical file carrier for review in the healthcare facility. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198513 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONCILING PATIENT AND PROCEDURE INFORMATION IN A MEDICAL FACILITY COMPUTER NETWORK AND IMAGING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a method for reconciling mismatches in data in a hospital computer system by selectively preventing editing of data entered at a first location at a second location, and providing for remapping of data acquired in an incorrect data structure to a corrected data structure. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198514 | KNOWLEDGE BASED CLINICAL DENTAL RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - The present invention relates to an electronic records management system. More specifically, the present invention is a comprehensive knowledge based clinical records management solution that encompasses the need for accurate records, while reducing the time and effort required to enter complete and accurate information. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198515 | ORGANIZATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEALTH INFORMATION - A health information and health record organization system. The system is designed for use by a consumer and their physician, dentist, optometrist, veterinarian, and other health care provider. The invention can have a paper and an electronic component and carrying case for radiology films, pathology slides, and CDs. A web-based portion can allow the user to enter particular information to be kept on their person for emergency use. Embodiments for the system can include systems for humans and animals. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING DIABETES EMPLOYING AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE - A method and system for managing diabetes employing an interactive website for processing data through an algorithm to correlate the lifestyle factors with stored vital statistics to produce a real-time assessment of diabetes management such as glucose levels. The website gives the user an interactive and real-time analysis of blood sugar and other daily factors via instant access such as by an internet interface on a personal computer or cell phone, with the ability to monitor one's individual performance, as well as viewing sample data from the same demographic group. A numerical score is displayed based on all input factors, and a predictive feature allows forecasts based on hypothetical changes in lifestyle conditions. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198517 | Pharmacy Episodes of Care - A computer-implemented method for grouping, categorizing, and profiling pharmaceutical claims data to assist health care managers in determining (a) medication treatment experience, outcomes, and medication compliance behaviors of patients and (b) appropriate drug prescribing, medication coordination, and cost-efficiency of health care providers. An objective means is provided for categorizing and quantifying patterns of prescription drug utilization as a health care service within a clinically relevant time frame. A pharmacy episode group (PEG) is a pharmacologically homogenous grouping of drugs with the same therapeutic ingredients used by a patient once or over an extended period of time. The PEG is a patient-centered pharmacy classification unit, which uses script-level pharmacy claim data as input data and assigns each script to the appropriate episode. Pharmacy episodes are categorized based on algorithms linking the pattern of a physician's recommended use (drug supply) and the patient's pattern of compliance (intervals between fill dates). The system also identifies multi-drug and concurrent use drug episodes, flags patients' records where intervals between scripts suggest non-compliance with recommended therapy, selects the most recent claims, resets windows (episode start and end dates), and ultimately assigns all pharmacy claims to episodes. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198518 | PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRIOR AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An online application for approving prior authorization requests for prescription drugs. The application is used by pharmacy benefits providers, physicians, and pharmacies to request prior authorizations for drugs and to receive approvals automatically if a requested drug meets authorization criteria. The online application is accessible through a group pharmacy benefits provider portal on a web site. Requests are processed through a pharmacy benefits manager computer that determines whether prior authorization is required and through a pharmacy benefits provider computer when the pharmacy benefits manager computer determines that prior authorization is required. Requests that meet certain authorization criteria are approved automatically. Requests that cannot be approved automatically are submitted for review by a clinical pharmacy review division that access requests through a drug request transaction computer. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198519 | SYSTEM FOR GENE TESTING AND GENE RESEARCH WHILE ENSURING PRIVACY - A system, method and program product, the method comprising, in one embodiment, providing a secure testing service for patient's identification and payment data encrypted at the data level, non-identifiable method for a patient to have a genetic tests to identify variants or mutations of their genes or combinations of genes that predispose the patient to develop or have an identified disease, comprising: obtaining electronically genomic information for a patient comprising at least one of, (a) DNA information, (b) RNA information, (c) complementary DNA or RNA information, (d) transfer RNA (tRNA) information (e) messenger RNA (mRNA) information, and (f) Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) to identify an abnormal gene; searching by one or more computers electronic databases using the identified abnormal gene to obtain genetic sequencing and basic research, patient predispositions, and pharmacognetics that predict the response and reaction of patients with identified genetic abnormalities related to the identified abnormal gene and individual medications that may be prescribed relating to the identified abnormal gene or a relationship with said identified abnormal gene; performing an update search on at least a periodic basis to learn about subsequent genomic research developments and treatments for the identified abnormal gene, specific genes with variants or mutated genes identified in the genetic test; sending electronically via an Internet communication link data comprising or derived from the searching step and the update search to the patient or a third party; and with the sending step performed using a privacy component that prevents transmission to any third party unless predetermined permission clearance data is in the system. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198520 | Method and System for Routing Orders and Results - The temporary medical orders and results transactions repository that intercepts Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic communications from Point “A” (source and/or creator) to Point “B” (electronic communication recipient, address, name and/or destination) to allows handling of outpatient medical-orders where Point “B” doesn't have to be defined at Point “A” (while the medical-order is being created); allowing creation of electronic orders at Point “A” without knowledge of where or who is Point “B” and delegating the designation of Point “B” to another party, other than the original medical-order creator. In this way, the choice of products and/or service providers is defined without medical order-creator intervention and/or influence; all WITHOUT the need of Unique IDs (UID, GUID or the like). | 2009-08-06 |
20090198521 | OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH DATA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for employee life cycle management collects occupational health data from a plurality of diverse occupational health data sources for a plurality of employees, stores the collected data in a central database, processes the data to generate employee life cycle data, stores the employee life cycle management data in the database, and centrally manages the employee life cycle management data to make the employee life cycle data available to at least one employer. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198522 | Equity/interest rate hybrid hedging system and method - The present invention provides a method and system for determining hedging transactions to meet required characteristics of risks associated with an insurance instrument, and mitigating the risks associated with the insurance instrument by executing hedging transactions. The hedging transactions utilize hybrid derivatives. In general, the equity/interest rate hybrid derivative concept encapsulates any derivative, or any investment vehicle with an embedded derivative, that contains a payoff formula (s). At a minimum the formula (s), is/are a function of two items: equities, and any interest rates. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198523 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN INSURANCE RATE - In a computer system and computer implemented method for determining an insurance rate for terrorism-related property insurance, one or more industry classification attributes, indicative of an industry segment associated with the property, are selected. A basic rate is determined from rate values assigned to the selected industry classification attributes. One or more target classification attributes, indicative of the property's attractiveness as a target for terrorism, are also selected. An aggravating rate is determined from rate values assigned to the selected target classification attributes. The insurance rate is determined from the basic rate and the aggravating rate. The assignment of insurance rates to a property based on the selection of target classification attributes for the property makes it possible to include the risk of a terrorist attack in the rating process, without having to determine probability distributions of terrorist attacks or estimate expected loss caused by terrorist attacks. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198524 | CORPORATE-OWNED LIFE INSURANCE SETTLEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer-aided method including generating output with a computer system by processing input data and thereby producing at least one of the group including an illustration including a party without an insurable interest in a life insured by a COLI (corporate-owned life insurance) policy, wherein the party receives an assignment of an interest in a policy benefit, a performance report of a transaction that corresponds to the assignment, and a forecast of at least one of earnings and cash flow of an assignor of the interest in the policy, and a forecast of cash flow of the party that receives the assignment, the forecasts using transaction experience data. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198525 | METHOD OF MANAGING A LIFE INSURANCE PLAN AND A SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method of managing a life insurance plan includes receiving a premium from an insured life. On occurrence of an insured event to the insured life, a predetermined amount is paid out to the insured life and on occurrence of an insured event to a parent of the insured life a predetermined amount is paid out to the insured life. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198526 | PAYMENT OF BENEFITS FOR SURVIVORS OF CERTAIN MEDICAL CONDITIONS - A method for payment of a benefit to a survivor of a subsequent medical condition. Initial and subsequent information about a person is received, the information concerning at least one specified medical condition. The initial information is inspected to determine the state of health of the person, the state of health not being acceptable if the specified medical condition is present. If the state of health of the person is acceptable then the person is approved for payment of a specified benefit if the specified medical condition is later present. Subsequent information about the person is inspected to determine the state of health of the person, the state of health being changed if the predetermined medical condition is later present. The specified benefit is then paid if the state of health of the person has changed. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198527 | INSURANCE PRODUCT AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD - A defendant protection policy is purchased by a plaintiff in connection with pursuing a lawsuit against a defendant, and pays out to the defendant in the event of an outcome unfavorable to the plaintiff. The plaintiff can be required to purchase the defendant protection policy by law or by contract. A computer-based system for facilitating the underwriting of the defendant protection policy includes at least one processor and computer-readable memory configured to execute a claim data entry module for receiving claim data about a litigation claim, a policy risk module for assessing insurer risk of payment under the claim based at least in part on risk data corresponding to the claim data, and a policy pricing module for determining policy pricing based at least in part on the insurer risk of payment. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198528 | System and method providing market mechanisms for trading in forward contracts on heterogeneous goods - System and method for trading in forward contracts exchangeable for tickets to events. A computerized exchange of the box office provides for trading forward contracts exchangeable for tickets to events. Instructions direct a central processing unit to receive bid and ask requests for forward contracts wherein each bid and ask includes a tickets description, match bid records against ask records using a matching criteria including instructions to match multiple asks or unreleased ticket inventory to satisfy one bid by aggregating tickets descriptions from the multiple asks or unreleased ticket inventory to satisfy the tickets description in a bid record, and upon close of the virtual market in forward contracts, delivering from the issuer to a holder of forward contracts, tickets corresponding to each respective forward contract ticket description. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198529 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING POINT OF SALE AND ELECTRONIC ARTICLE SURVEILLANCE - System and method for integrating information concerning point of sale (POS) transactions and electronic article surveillance deactivations are disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a POS station configured to collect and transmit first data pertaining to purchased merchandise having at least one EAS tag, the POS station further configured to transmit a deactivation signal, receiving the deactivation signal at the EAS deactivator, the EAS deactivator configured to deactivate at least one EAS tag, collect second data pertaining to deactivation of at least one EAS tag, and transmit the first and second data, transmitting the first and second data to an alarm management unit, the alarm management unit adapted for collecting and relaying the first and second data, and processing the first and second data at a data processing unit, the data processing unit configured to analyze the first and second data and generate third data pertaining to the first and second data. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198530 | AUTOMATED SOLUTION FOR MANAGING ANCILLARY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS IN AN ORGANIZATION - The present invention discloses a method, system, device, and/or computer program for managing ancillary relationships in an organization. The invention can include a social network graph, a directory services data store, and an ancillary relationship coordinator. The social network graph can graphically illustrate the relationships, both direct and ancillary, between members of the organization. The directory services data store can be configured to contain a directory services tree corresponding to the social network graph. The ancillary relationship coordinator can be configured to automatically identify and manage the ancillary relationships between the members of the organization. The ancillary relationship coordinator can incorporate information pertaining to the ancillary relationships into the social network graph and the directory services data store. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198531 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERING DEPENDENCIES IN PROJECT PLANS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM - A method and system for discovering dependencies in project plans of a distributed system. Project plans are located by a project plan path. A project plan contains dependency information of a task to be performed, a resource necessary to perform the task, and a prerequisite task to perform the task. The method generates a master project plan containing all dependency information in all project plans in the distributed system, which dictates an order of tasks or task-resource maps in all project plans pursuant to the dependency information in project plans. The method utilizes project plan files in diverse formats in generating the master project plan for the distributed system. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198532 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR BUSINESS PROCESS ADAPTATION USING GOAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS - A business process (BP) adaptation system ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090198533 | BUSINESS PROCESS EXTRACTOR - A system and method for extracting information from business applications in real time is provided. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a message from the business applications, identifying and categorizing a business process context of the message, storing the business process context of said message, correlating the message based on said business process context with stored business process contexts to create a life cycle, and publishing the life cycle as processed data. The message can be pre-processed and data can be extracted from the message. A plug-in, a message sniffer, and a subscription for specific categories published by business applications can be used to get the message from the business applications. The message can be identifying and categorizing using configurable rules, and a correlation engine having pre-defined algorithms can be used to correlate the message with other messages. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198534 | Governing A Service Oriented Architecture - Methods and systems for governing a service oriented architecture (‘SOA’) are disclosed that include planning for implementation of an SOA governance model for governing a business's SOA including identifying compliance requirements for the SOA; defining the SOA governance model in accordance with the identified compliance requirements; enabling the defined SOA governance model; and measuring effectiveness of the enabled SOA governance model. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198535 | Defining Service Funding For A Service Oriented Architecture - Methods and systems for defining service funding for a Service Oriented Architecture (‘SOA’) are described that include, in response to an event requiring a change in service funding, identifying a potential SOA funding model for a business's SOA, the potential SOA funding model governing funding of services implemented in the business's SOA; reviewing for approval the potential SOA funding model by relevant stakeholders of the business; and upon approval of the potential SOA funding model by relevant stakeholders of the business, implementing the approved SOA funding model. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198536 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VENDOR-NEUTRAL SUBCONTRACTOR ENABLEMENT - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, includes receiving information in support of a bid and determining if value-add eligibility criteria is met. Additionally, the method includes calculating a bid price based on the information if the value-add eligibility criteria is met, updating a record indicating the bid price and tracking additions and changes to the record. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198537 | Defining An SOA Strategy For A Service Oriented Architecture - Methods and systems for defining SOA strategy for a Service Oriented Architecture (‘SOA’) are described that include identifying, in dependence upon a business's SOA vision and one or more artifacts describing a current state of a business's SOA, one or more SOA opportunity areas for the business; assessing a current service maturity level of the business's SOA; determining a target service maturity level for the business's SOA; and developing an SOA strategic plan to reach the target service maturity level for the business's SOA, the SOA strategic plan including an identification of the one or more SOA opportunity areas for the business. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198538 | MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT FILTERING - Disclosed is a method for filtering mobile ads, including sensing an editorial event from an advertiser user interface, wherein the editorial event comprises an advertiser creating or editing a mobile advertisement listing; enabling submission of the mobile listing multiple channel and carrier attributes; automatically checking the mobile listing with at least one mobile carrier-specific automatic check service in response to the sensed editorial event; determining whether the advertisement listing is flagged for manual review; and sending the mobile listing to a mobile publisher for publishing in response to a determination that the mobile listing is not flagged for manual review. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198539 | Onscreen takeoff incorporating typical areas system, method and computer product - A system, method, and computer product for taking installation information off areas of digital plans for estimating and evaluating with predetermined material, labor rates, and costs. The system incorporates typical areas and typical groups for repeating objects in applications such as office buildings and hotels. The system automatically sums individual inputs and facilitates sharing, bidding, and evaluation of areas. Drawings are color coded to communicate to the operator what status is. Areas and conditions can be duplicated, manipulated, copied, pasted, grouped, reassigned, and adjusted to reuse in other parts or plans. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198540 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN EXECUTION SEQUENCE OF A SET OF SALES ORDERS - Disclosed is a method and system for receiving a work order having a set of sales orders and determining sales order parameters such as a due date of a sales order and a restriction on the sales order. The method also includes determining a work station to execute the work order based on the sales order parameters, determining a work load of the work station executing the work order and generating an execution sequence of the set of sales orders based on the work load. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198541 | Enhanced Brand Label Validation - Enhanced brand label validation, in which identification information uniquely identifying items that have moved through one or more nodes of a supply chain is received, and event data associated with the uniquely identified items is received from the one or more nodes, based on the received identification information. The process also includes performing a validation of a characteristic of the uniquely identified items based on applying the received event data to multiple discrete evaluation frameworks, and providing a result of the validation for each of the multiple discrete evaluation frameworks. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198542 | DISTRIBUTING PREMIUM CONTENT WITH ADVERTISING SPONSORSHIP - Distribution of rights protected content as a function of advertisement based sponsorship is provided. Rights protected content can be obtained by a user for no cost or for a reduced cost in exchange for acceptance of advertisements. The advertisements can be provided as a condition that should be satisfied before the rights protected content is presented. The advertisement can be distributed as a single delivery or as a bundled delivery. The premium content and associated advertising rules can be shared between devices in a peer-to-peer manner. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198543 | License Compliance Management - Methods, computer program products and systems for determining the level of use of a program associated with a license, by one or more agents, for comparison with a predetermined licensed level of use. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises the steps of collecting initial data from the one or more agents associated with a metric indicative of use of the program during a first predetermined time period, calculating the metric to determine a level use of the program for the first predetermined time period, receiving new data from one or more agents associated with the metric of usage of the program, where the new data arrives after the first predetermined time period, estimating a new value of the metric to determine a approximate level of use for a second predetermined time period from the original data, the metric and the new data and in response to a trigger event, recalculating the metric to produce a final value of the metric based on the original data and the new data to provide an indication of the level of use of the program. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198544 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING DATA TRANSACTIONS IN TIME RECORDING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for facilitating data transactions in time recording systems may include receiving, at a client application from a timekeeper, a timekeeper identification. The received timekeeper identification and a request for time entry data associated with the timekeeper may be communicated to a middle-tier application that accesses at least one database to retrieve the requested time entry data and communicated the retrieved time entry data to the client application. The client application may receive the time entry data and store the received data in at least one local memory accessible by the client application. Upon the generation of a new time entry or the modification of an existing time entry at the client application, the time entry data stored in the at least one local memory may be updated. The updated time entry data may be communicated to the middle-tier application to facilitate updating the at least one database. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198545 | METHOD OF QUALIFYING SMALL BUSINESS OWNERSHIP FOR FIRST-TIME BUYERS - A business brokerage process is provided for identifying key issues for locating appropriate buyers and sellers for a successful business purchase. The method includes the steps of psychological testing, process awareness through coaching and education, spousal support through involvement, and access to financing through introduction to providers of capital. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198546 | System and Method for Dynamic Management of Business Processes - The present invention provides a computerized system for modeling a business process, comprising a web server and a database server. The web server implements a user interface to the system. The database server is in operable communication with the web server and comprises a data architecture representing the business process. The data architecture comprises an entity model representing an entity responsible for implementing at least a portion of the business process, a transaction model comprising at least one step defining a business process, a list model representing at least one step in the transaction, the list model comprising a list of at least one entity associated with the transaction; and a task model associated with the list, the task model defining at least one task associated with the at least one step in the transaction. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198547 | Catering method and system - A single caterer or multiple caterers may provide individualized meals for a large number of customers at a number of different institutions. A server computer has individual accounts for each customer, caterer, institution accounts grouping the customers by the institution with which they are affiliated, and an administration account for management functions and kitchen related modules such as preparation sheets. Significantly, with the method of the invention that relationship need not include any food preparation, billing for food, or menu collation, creation or the like by the institution. The kitchen will prepare a monthly menu of options available to the customers, who use individual accounts to access the monthly menu of choices and select menu options for each day and pay the caterer using a payment module. The catering system of the invention then handles payments to the caterers. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198548 | SYSTEM TO AVOID POLICY-BASED DEADLOCKS IN WORKFLOW EXECUTION - A computer-implemented method avoids policy-based deadlocks in execution of a workflow. The method includes receiving information describing a workflow. The workflow includes tasks, roles, site of tasks and security constraints related to the tasks. A data structure, representative of relationships between the tasks and the security constraints is automatically generated. An automated, design-time evaluation is performed using the data structure to determine a minimal number of resources to be assigned to the roles in order to execute the tasks of the workflow, and to avoid deadlock in execution of the tasks of the workflow as a result of security constraints. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198549 | Automated Repair System and Method for Network-Addressable Components - A system, and a corresponding method provide for automated repair of network-addressable components belonging to an enterprise. The system includes a service event filter that receives information related to the operation of the component and in real time determines if the received information indicates a serviceable event; and a service event analyzer coupled to the service event filter. The service event analyzer determines in real time an applicable procedure for repair or replacement of the component, and formats in real time the information related to the operation of the component and the applicable procedure into a machine-readable message. Finally, the system includes a serviceable event interface that provides in real time the machine-readable message to a remote service center and receives an indication related to dispatch of a replacement for the component. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198550 | Defining Service Ownership For A Service Oriented Architecture - Defining service ownership for an SOA including defining, in response to an event requiring a change in service ownership and in dependence upon data describing business functions within a business, a service domain; reviewing, by a service domain ownership review board, the defined service domain for approval; upon approval of the defined service domain, identifying potential impact upon currently existing service domains caused by implementation of the defined service domain; identifying a potential owner of the defined service domain in dependence upon a service type of the defined service domain and funding requirements of the service domain; presenting, to relevant stakeholders in the business, the potential owner of the defined service domain for approval; and upon approval of the potential owner of the defined service domain, assigning the potential owner of the defined service domain responsibility for managing the defined service domain. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198551 | System and process for selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising for electronic display - A process of selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising from a plurality of competitive and non-competitive advertisements for electronic display including the steps of generating a selection model, generating a user model, selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising from the plurality of advertisements using the selection model and user model to identify relevant advertisements and using a rule set for identifying non-competitive advertisements and providing in an electronic format identified relevant and non-competitive advertisements. An arrangement for the same includes memory for storing a selection model and a user and a controller that selects personalized non-competitive electronic advertising from the plurality of advertisements using the selection model and user model to identify relevant advertisements and using a rule set for identifying non-competitive advertisements. The process and arrangement provide the advertisements in an electronic format affiliated with an originating retailer, where such originating retailer is not among the one or more retailers. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198552 | System and process for identifying users for which cooperative electronic advertising is relevant - A process for identifying a subset of users for which a cooperative electronic advertising is relevant includes the steps of generating user models associated with originating retailers, receiving a request to advertise products related to products sold by the retailers, identifying user models by applying an advertisement specific selection model and communicating the advertising to the identified users such that each user receives a communication apparently sent by the originating retailer. An arrangement for the same includes memory for storing user models associated with originating retailers and an advertisement specific selection model and a controller that receives a request to advertise products related to products which are sold by the retailers, identifies user models by applying an advertisement specific selection model and communicates the specific electronic advertising to the identified users such that each user receives a communication apparently sent by the originating retailer associated with each user model. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198553 | System and process for generating a user model for use in providing personalized advertisements to retail customers - A process for generating a user model to be used in providing personalized advertisements to a specific user includes the steps of collecting user-specific data while the specific user is interacting with any of a plurality of retailers. The process further includes generating a user model for the specific user utilizing the user-specific data and using the model to generate a personalized advertisement for presentation to the user. An arrangement for generating a user model to be used in providing personalized advertisements to a specific user includes memory for storing user-specific data collected from user interactions with any of a plurality of retailers and a controller that generates a user model for the specific user utilizing the user-specific data and uses the model to generate a personalized advertisement for presentation to one of the users for which user-specific data has been collected. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198554 | System and process for identifying users for which non-competitive advertisements is relevant - A process for identifying a subset of users for which a non-competitive advertisement is relevant includes the steps of generating a plurality of user models including user-specific data, identifying a subset of the plurality of user models by applying an advertisement-specific selection model to identify users for which a specific advertisement is relevant and applying a non-competitive rule set to the identified user models to identify which user models are associated with one or more non-competitive originating retailers. An arrangement for the same includes memory for storing user-specific data and a controller that generates user models using the user-specific data, identifies a subset of the user models by applying an advertisement-specific selection model to the user models to identify users for which the specific advertisement is relevant and applies a non-competitive rule set to the identified subset of user models to identify which user models are associated with one or more non-competitive originating retailers. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198555 | System and process for providing cooperative electronic advertising - A process for providing cooperative electronic advertising includes the steps of generating a user model associated with an originating retailer, receiving requests to advertise products sold by originating retailers, identifying products by applying advertisement-specific selection models to the user model to identify which of the products is relevant and communicating an advertisement for the products to the user such that the user receives a communication that appears to have been sent by the originating retailer. An arrangement for the same includes memory for storing a user model and advertisement-specific selection models and a controller that receives requests to advertise products sold by originating retailers, identifies products by applying the advertisement-specific selection models to the user model to identify which products are relevant and communicates an advertisement for the products to the user such that the user receives a communication that appears to have been sent by the originating retailer. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198556 | System and process for selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising - A process for selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising from a plurality of competitive and non-competitive advertisements includes the steps of generating a selection model based on product data and user-specific data, generating a user model using the user-specific data and selecting non-competitive personalized electronic advertising from the plurality of advertisements using the selection model and user model to identify relevant advertisements and using a rule set for identifying advertisements not competitive to the specific retailer. An arrangement for selecting personalized non-competitive electronic advertising from a plurality of competitive and non-competitive advertisements includes memory for storing at least one selection model and at least one user model and a controller that selects non-competitive personalized electronic advertising from the plurality of advertisements using the selection model and user model to identify relevant advertisements and using a rule set for identifying advertisements not competitive to the specific retailer. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198557 | TIMING COMMERCIAL OFFERS BASED ON LONG-TERM USER DATA - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that times commercial offers made to a user. During operation, the system starts by receiving financial history data for the user, wherein the financial history data includes purchase records for a set of purchases. The system then identifies a subset of purchases in the set of purchases, wherein the subset of purchases are semantically linked to a set of predetermined subjects. Next, the system identifies timing patterns in the subset of purchases based on timing information associated with the subset of purchases. The system then presents one or more commercial offers to the user at specific times based on the identified timing patterns. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198558 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING JOBSEEKERS TO RECRUITERS - A method of establishing affinities among jobseekers is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring jobseeker activity on a web site. The jobseekers are correlated by a job ID based on jobs for which a jobseeker applies or views. A list of job IDs is sorted, with corresponding jobseekers IDs of jobseekers who have applied for or viewed a job among the list of job IDs converted to integers and grouped by job ID. An affinity is determined among jobseekers in groups according to a formula and jobseekers having an affinity with another jobseeker greater than a predetermined value are displayed to a recruiter. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198559 | MULTI-RESOLUTIONAL FORECASTING SYSTEM - Traffic to a selected network resource, such as a Web site, is forecast using a forecasting model that is based upon a selected resolution. The resolution can be a year, month, season, week, day of the week, an annual day-long event, or any other repetitive time interval for which data can be collected. Historical traffic data for the resolution of interest is retrieved from a database, and the selected forecasting model is applied to the retrieved data to produce a forecast. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198560 | GRAPHICAL SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE RELATIVE ATTRACTIVENESS OF INVESTMENTS - A system for scoring and evaluating financial investments including a server accessible by at least one client, a database including a plurality of financial indicators for a plurality of investments, software executing on the server for generating a score for each of at least a portion of the financial indicators for a target investment relative to a reference set of the investments, software for determining a comparison set including at least one of the plurality investments, software for generating a score for the portion of the financial indicators for the comparison set relative to the reference set, software for generating a display of the scores for the target investment, wherein the display includes a chart including an axis extending radially from a point for each of the portion of the financial indicators, wherein each of the scores is plotted along one of the axes. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198561 | Self learning method and system for managing agreements to purchase goods over time - A system for managing a purchase agreement, including: a memory element for at least one specially-programmed general purpose computer for storing an artificial intelligence program (AIP) and a purchase agreement between a customer and at least one business entity, the purchase agreement including at least one requirement regarding at least one retail transaction between the customer and the business entity; a processor in the specially-programmed general purpose computer for: compiling a purchasing history for the customer with respect to the business entity and the purchase agreement, the memory element for storing the purchasing history, and modifying, using the purchasing history and the AIP, the at least one requirement to increase revenue or profitability of the business entity; and an interface element in the specially-programmed general purpose computer for transmitting the modified at least one requirement for presentation to the customer. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198562 | GENERATING SOCIAL GRAPH USING MARKET DATA - A social graph may be generated using a system and method to: identify a focal user, the focal user associated with a transaction; determine a related user associated with the transaction, the related user having a buyer-seller relationship with the focal user; and present the focal user and the related user using a multi-node graph, the multi-node graph including a first node and a second node representing the focal user and the related user, respectively, and a first connector representing the buyer-seller relationship linking the first and second nodes, the first connector being presented with meta-data describing a characteristic of the buyer-seller relationship. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198563 | METHOD FOR PRESENTING PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION ON A WEB PAGE - A method for presenting supplemental promotional information on a web page includes: a) providing a shopping website that includes product web pages corresponding respectively to products; b) storing browsing activity information of a user with respect to the product web pages as a history log; c) analyzing the history log to calculate product interest parameters, each indicating interest of the user in a respective one of the products; d) storing the product interest parameters of the products; e) in response to intent of the user to browse one of the product web pages, retrieving the corresponding product interest parameter; and f) if the retrieved product interest parameter satisfies a condition, integrating supplemental promotional information giving details of the corresponding product into the browsed product web page. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198564 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTERACTIVE CONSUMER MARKETING - A system and method of interactive consumer marketing, wherein a plurality of marketing channels are specifically and directly focused upon particular goods or services of a sponsor for a specific time period, wherein interactive engagement of a plurality of potential consumers necessarily results therefrom and wherein further dialog, broadcast and otherwise, maximizes results and return on costs, with a singular and short-term commitment. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198565 | IDEA COLLABORATION SYSTEM - An idea collaboration system includes an innovation market that accepts and displays user-submitted ideas; a discussion section that allows registered users to comment on and ranking ideas; and an idea merit section that displays an indication of merit for the ideas. The indication of merit for each idea is based on at least: (i) a number of different registered users who have submitted comments for the idea; (ii) a determination of user interest for the idea; and (iii) a reputation rank for registered users who provided a positive ranking for the idea. | 2009-08-06 |
20090198566 | Universal Targeted Blogging System - A blogging system comprising a browsing page having a filtering system displayed in a first portion of a window, a list of hits in a second portion of the window, and a hits list filter in a third portion of the window, wherein a ranking threshold may be set by the user or operator to display a list of hits ranked above the threshold. Members may also vote for articles posted on the blogging system, which automatically updates the ranking system. The blogging system also provides a method of advertising and conducting surveys. A unique system for reporting violations on the personal blogging system is also disclosed. | 2009-08-06 |