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US-7,409,371 Efficient determination of sample size to facilitate building a statistical model
A model is constructed for an initial subset of the data using a first parameter estimation algorithm. The model may be evaluated, for example, by applying the...
US-7,409,370 Secured and selective runtime auditing services using a trusted computing device
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a control logic to selectively audit transactions between the apparatus and a separate entity based on a type for the...
US-7,409,369 Providing a customer one or more options for increasing a line of credit
A method for providing a customer one or more options for increasing a line of credit includes communicating to a customer one or more solicitations offering the...
US-7,409,368 Dutch auction system with preregistered bid feature
A descending bid auction system includes preregistered bids from remote locations. Preregistered bids submitted before an auction cycle begins are awarded a sale...
US-7,409,367 Derivative securities and system for trading same
A derivative security whose value is determined by whether an underlying instrument will trade above or below a given price at or by a given time. The price of...
US-7,409,366 Apparatus and method for adding liquidity to an ECN and improving executions of orders for securities
The invention provides methods and systems for improved execution of orders for securities and for adding liquidity to markets. Embodiments include receiving...
US-7,409,365 Risk provision implementation financial processing in a relational database management system
A financial processing system that accesses account, event and organization attributes from a relational database management database, wherein: (1) the account...
US-7,409,364 Financial advice strategy system
A system and method are disclosed for analyzing an individual's financial information and generating advice related to financial payment and negotiation...
US-7,409,363 Centralized management system for maintenance parts
A centralized management system for managing maintenance parts of machines at multiple plants includes: a warehouse facility for providing a concentrated storage...
US-7,409,362 Vendor-driven, social-network enabled review system and method with flexible syndication
The embodiments of the present system include a review engine that is connected to support modules and databases that receive, store and retrieve reviews, based...
US-7,409,361 Auction system for remote bidding and method
A system for conducting interactive auctions with remote bidders is provided. The system includes an auction system operable to maintain information related to a...
US-7,409,360 Method and system for computer-based auctioning of basic generation services
A system for conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes a web server for...
US-7,409,359 Configurator for configuring and displaying the appearance of an article to be configured
A configurator and a method of configuring articles has a processor with a memory for storing at least one data record representative of the outward appearance...
US-7,409,358 Methods and systems for coordinating a change in status of stored-value cards
Methods and systems are provided for coordinating a change in status of a stored-value card for a customer. Transaction information is received at a host system...
US-7,409,357 Quantification of operational risks
A system is provided for measuring operational risks. Advanced measurement approaches are used to calculate a value at risk based on loss data that is entered....
US-7,409,356 Method and system for intelligent supply chain collaboration
An improved supply chain management system and method is disclosed for assisting companies to improve the efficiency of supply chains. One embodiment includes a...
US-7,409,355 Line item data processing
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention use a data processing system for capturing, evaluating, and fulfilling line...
US-7,409,354 Method and apparatus for operative event documentation and related data management
In one embodiment, method and apparatus are disclosed which provide that a plurality of physicians each enter operative event data into an operative event...
US-7,409,353 Methods and systems for producing shipping labels
Methods and systems for producing shipping labels are provided. Example embodiments provide a Shipping Label Production System ("SLPS"), which produces shipping...
US-7,409,352 System and method for managing sponsorships
A system and method for managing sponsorships by a sponsor, in which the party requesting the sponsorship requests to use content owned and protected by the...
US-7,409,351 Method and system for splitting an order in a flexible order transaction system
A method and system for splitting an order in a flexible order transaction system where yield, scrap, and work-in-process (WIP) are calculated for reporting...
US-7,409,350 Audio processing method for generating audio stream
An audio processing method utilized to generate an audio stream. An audio frame includes N frequency subbands. An Ith frequency subband among the N frequency...
US-7,409,349 Servers for web enabled speech recognition
A markup language for execution on a client device in a client/server system includes instructions to unify at least one of recognition-related events, GUI...
US-7,409,348 Language listening and speaking training system and method with random test, appropriate shadowing and instant...
A language listening and speaking teaching system and method that utilize a random tests function to provide full-scale and various language training subjects...
US-7,409,347 Data-driven global boundary optimization
Portions from segment boundary regions of a plurality of speech segments are extracted. Each segment boundary region is based on a corresponding initial unit...
US-7,409,346 Two-stage implementation for phonetic recognition using a bi-directional target-filtering model of speech...
A structured generative model of a speech coarticulation and reduction is described with a novel two-stage implementation. At the first stage, the dynamics of...
US-7,409,345 Methods for reducing spurious insertions in speech recognition
Techniques for improving an automatic baseform generation system. More particularly, the invention provides techniques for reducing insertion of spurious speech...
US-7,409,344 XML based architecture for controlling user interfaces with contextual voice commands
A voice-enabled user interface includes a first user interface. A voice extension module is associated with the first user interface and is configured to...
US-7,409,343 Verification score normalization in a speaker voice recognition device
During a learning phase, a speech recognition device generates parameters of an acceptance voice model relating to a voice segment spoken by an authorized...
US-7,409,342 Speech recognition device using statistical language model
A speech recognizing device. Natural speech recognizing means recognizes speech input in an application program by dictation. Recognition result converting means...
US-7,409,341 Speech recognizing apparatus with noise model adapting processing unit, speech recognizing method and...
A recognizing target vocabulary comparing unit calculates a compared likelihood of recognizing target vocabulary, i.e., a compared likelihood of registered...
US-7,409,340 Method and device for determining prosodic markers by neural autoassociators
A neural network is used to obtain more robust performance in determining prosodic markers on the basis of linguistic categories.
US-7,409,339 Methods and systems for sample rate conversion
Methods and systems for sample rate conversion convert a sampled signal to a higher data rate signal. Conversion pulses are received, having a conversion rate...
US-7,409,338 Softbit speech decoder and related method for performing speech loss concealment
A softbit speech decoder includes a speech loss concealment circuit receiving bit information, bit error probability data, and a speech information flag from an...
US-7,409,337 Natural language processing interface
The present invention provides an interface and associated object model that exposes a comprehensive set of natural language processing features to an...
US-7,409,336 Method and system for searching data based on identified subset of categories and relevance-scored text...
A method and system for analyzing natural language text to identify a set of categories of data in a knowledge base associated with the natural language text and...
US-7,409,335 Inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of answers based on application being employed by...
A system and method for inferring informational goals and preferred level of details in answers in response to questions posed to computer-based information...
US-7,409,334 Method of text processing
A method of text processing by receiving textual units. Then, select a language and a textual unit. Identify the selected textual unit's stem and suffix. Search...
US-7,409,333 Translation of electronically transmitted messages
A communication system for human communication comprises a sending computer system 11, a receiving computer system 21a and a translation web site 31. The sending...
US-7,409,332 Method and apparatus for initializing iterative training of translation probabilities
A method of estimating translation probabilities includes converting a set of word alignment scores into translation probabilities and modifying the translation...
US-7,409,331 Apparatus for designing mixed signal integrated circuits and configurable synchronous digital noise emulator...
A method for designing an integrated circuit having analog and digital circuit portions is disclosed. The method involves providing an emulation circuit, which...
US-7,409,330 Method and system for software debugging using a simulator
Systems and methods for debugging software and/or hardware are disclosed. A processor may execute a program for a certain amount of time. The context of the...
US-7,409,329 Flexible SPDIF verification tool
A system and method of verifying the format of a simulated signal produced during the simulation of an electronic circuit is disclosed. One aspect of the present...
US-7,409,328 System and method for communicating simulation solutions between circuit components in a hierarchical data...
A system for communicating simulation solutions between circuit components in a hierarchical data structure includes a simulator module having one or more...
US-7,409,327 Simulation program for integrated optical/electronic circuit
A method for forming a hybrid active electronic and optical circuit using a lithography mask. The hybrid active electronic and optical circuit comprising an...
US-7,409,326 Design support method and design support program
A design support method for support design of a conveying path by simulating a behavior of a sheet-like flexible medium to be conveyed along a conveying path,...
US-7,409,325 Object oriented library for Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation
Systems, methods and computer implemented tools are provided for performing Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations. Computer implemented tools include a library of...
US-7,409,324 Design support system
The design support system regarding the present invention comprises a node data storage means that stores node data to generate functional models which present a...
US-7,409,323 Method for detecting a spatial random process using planar convex polygon envelope
A method is provided for automatically characterizing data sets containing data points, which may be produced by measurements such as with sonar arrays, as...
US-7,409,322 Mass set estimation for an object using variable geometric shapes
A system and method for object modeling. A compositing module embeds geometric shapes to model varying densities of an object. The compositing module represents...
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