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Mobile device marketing and advertising platforms, methods, and systems
A mobile marketing campaign platform and method including: a planning module including: a definition module for setting budget and objectives; and a design...
Method and apparatus for conducting an information brokering service
A system and method is provided that provides an early indication of consensus of opinion among a number of users regarding an event or observation indicated by...
Identifying quality user sessions and determining product demand with high
A session quality system collects and evaluates data from multiple user world wide web ("web") product selection sessions and correlates the collected data with...
Methods and tools to support strategic decision making by specifying,
relating and analyzing requirements,...
The present invention discloses methods and tools for managing requirements, solutions, and deployments of a project. The invention provides for the creation of...
System and method for automatic moderator delegation
A method and computer program product for receiving an indication of a meeting being scheduled between a plurality of attendees. At least one of the attendees...
Project management applications utilizing summary tasks for top-down
Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward providing a method utilizing project management software for creating a project plan utilizing a...
Visualization for aggregation of change tracking information
A method within a system wherein a first user of the system provides information on social patterns to a second user includes: receiving a request for social...
Site optimizer is a tool that enables A/B testing of merchandising offers for your online store to help you determine which offers work best on your storefront....
Supply chain management
An interface to a transactional system of a trading partner provides electronic communications to at least one participant in a supply chain for a product or...
System and method for allocating replacement vehicle rental costs using a
virtual bank of repair facility credits
Systems and methods for managing a virtual bank of repair facility credits are disclosed. Various operations for adding and subtracting credits from a repair...
System and method for improved rental vehicle reservation management
A method and system are disclosed for managing a rental vehicle reservation based at least in part on automated processing of vehicle repair data corresponding...
Method and apparatus for repricing a reimbursement claim against a
A method for repricing a reimbursement claim under at least one contract is provided herein. The method includes converting each contract into a series of...
System and method to provide process status update information
Disclosed are systems and methods to provide process status update information. The systems and methods provide techniques to communicate with a party about a...
System and method for determining a premium for insurance for a security
A method for determining a premium for insuring a security comprising the steps of determining an insurance risk premium based upon a security to be insured,...
System for facilitating life settlement transactions
A system and method for buying and selling life insurance policies includes an online database for storing information concerning in-force policies as needed...
Personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome
based on profiles of community patients
The invention can be directed toward a method for personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome based on patient profiles of a...
Analyte monitoring and management device and method to analyze the
frequency of user interaction with the device
Methods and Devices to monitor the level of at least one analyte are provided.
Knowledge based electronic clinical record for dentistry
The present invention relates to an electronic records management system. More specifically, the present invention is a comprehensive knowledge based clinical...
Identification of specialty drugs
Methods for determining whether a drug is a specialty drug, methods for creating tools to be used in making the determination, and the tools themselves are...
Satori integrated health and financial benefits system and method
A shared medical savings system and method are provided that allow a patient to participate in the savings generated by selecting to have a medical procedure...
Method and system for monitoring patient care
The subject invention is a Patient Care Monitoring System which employs a novel method and system for monitoring the care provided to a patient at a health care...
User interface for clinical decision support
User interfaces for proactive and interactive clinical decision support events are provided. When a clinical decision support event is initiated for a patient,...
System and method for improving medical care
A computer system comprising a processor for executing program instructions and a memory coupled to the processor for storing the program instructions, the...
Data visualization system and method
The invention provides a data visualization system comprising a data value memory in which is maintained a finite set of data values and display means arranged...
Border management solution
An integrated border management solution providing a balance between facilitating the movement of people and commerce with the requirements of immigration,...
Method and system for distributing disaster information
A system and method to distribute disaster information to a customer. An information distribution apparatus for distributing disaster information to a customer...
Audio signal coding method and decoding method
It possible not only to reduce a delay, but also to enhance the coding efficiency and reduce audio artifact upon coding. An audio signal coding method for...
System for providing an acoustic signal with extended bandwidth
A bandwidth extension system extends the bandwidth of an acoustic signal. By shifting a portion of the signal by a frequency value, the system generates an...
Generation of multi-channel audio signals
A decoder (115) generates a multi channel audio signal, such as a surround sound signal, from a received first signal. The multi-channel signal comprises a...
Adaptive interpolation in upsampled audio signal based on frequency of
Digital audio sample data are adaptively processed for interpolation based on whether the frequency at which the digital audio signal samples reverse polarity...
Open architecture for a voice user interface
A system and method for processing voice requests from a user for accessing information on a computerized network and delivering information from a script...
Voice signal encoding/decoding method
The present invention is disclosed a voice signal encoding/decoding methods. It is judged whether the time-point at which the voices signal is about to be...
Methods and apparatus for automatically extending the voice vocabulary of
mobile communications devices
The invention is a method of improving the performance of a speech recognizer. The method generally involves: providing a lexicon for the speech recognizer;...
Focus tracking in dialogs
Controls are provided for a web server to generate client side markups that include recognition and/or audible prompting. The controls comprise elements of a...
Speech information processing apparatus and method
A temporary child set is generated. An elastic ratio of an elastic section of a model pattern is calculated. A temporary typical pattern of the set is generated...
Human-assisted pronunciation generation
Pronunciation generation may be provided. First, a pronunciation interface may be provided. The pronunciation interface may be configured to display a word and...
Generalized object recognition for portable reading machine
Techniques for operating a reading machine are disclosed. The techniques include forming an N-dimensional features vector based on features of an image, the...
System and method for enhancing speech recognition accuracy
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. The method includes dividing a system dialog turn...
Piecewise-based variable-parameter Hidden Markov Models and the training
A speech recognition system uses Gaussian mixture variable-parameter hidden Markov models (VPHMMs) to recognize speech under many different conditions. Each...
Hierarchical real-time speaker recognition for biometric VoIP verification
A method for real-time speaker recognition including obtaining speech data of a speaker, extracting, using a processor of a computer, a coarse feature of the...
Interactive speech recognition model
A method and apparatus for updating a speech model on a multi-user speech recognition system with a personal speech model for a single user. A speech...
System and method for improving robustness of speech recognition using
vocal tract length normalization codebooks
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing speech recognition. The method embodiment comprises selecting a codebook from a...
Speech frame loss compensation using non-cyclic-pulse-suppressed version
of previous frame excitation as...
An audio decoding device performs frame loss compensation capable of obtaining a decoded audio which is natural for ears with little noise. The audio decoding...
Method and apparatus for noise suppression
In a noise suppression apparatus for suppressing noise contained in a speech signal, the speech signal is converted to a first vector of spectral speech...
Method and apparatus for layered code-excited linear prediction speech
utilizing linear prediction excitation...
A layered code-excited linear prediction (CELP) encoder, an Adaptive Multirate Wideband (AMR-WB) encoder and methods of CELP encoding and decoding. In one...
Speech coding method and apparatus which codes spectrum parameters and an
A wideband speech coding apparatus which causes an input speech signal to be represented by spectrum parameters and an excitation signal. The apparatus includes...
Method, apparatus, program, and recording medium for long-term prediction
coding and long-term prediction decoding
A method and apparatus multiplies a past sample a time lag .tau. older than a current sample by a quantized multiplier .rho.' on a frame by frame basis,...
Method and apparatus for encoding continuation sinusoid signal information
of audio signal and method and...
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an audio signal and a method and apparatus for decoding an audio signal. The method includes performing...
Scalable decoder and scalable decoding method
A scalable decoder capable of avoiding deterioration in subjective quality of a listener. The scalable decoder for decoding core layer encoding data and...
System and method for computerized psychological content analysis of
computer and media generated...
At least one computer-mediated communication produced by or received by an author is collected and parsed to identify categories of information within it. The...