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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185627 | System and method for sharing information based on proximity A method and system are provided for facilitating interaction between a device and a device environment. The system may include a detection module for automatically detecting proximity of a participant within the device environment. The system may additionally inclu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180767 | Inferred relationships from user tagged content A tagged content inference system and method is provided. The system facilitates browsing of content with a pseudo-hierarchical feel using algorithmically-deduced relationships between items based on user applied tags. Based, at least in part, upon tagged content, a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171394 | Methods and systems for providing a customized user interface for viewing and editing meta-data Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a user interface. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request to initiate an application program configured to generate a data file. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include disp... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170891 | User interface for generating and managing medical documentation sets Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for generating and/or managing medical documentation sets are provided. Medical documentation sets are generated by replicating a predetermined medical template. After the predetermined medical template is... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170529 | Supporting multiple authentication technologies of devices connecting to a wireless network A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for determining connection needs of a mobile device connecting to a wireless network. In one aspect, the computer-readable media provide a method that includes receiving a request from a mobile device to acc... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161065 | Facilitating advertisement selection using advertisable units Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate advertisement selection using advertising units. An entity that is a sequence of two or more words is referenced. The entity includes substrings com... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160895 | 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, relevant stored clinical information associated with the patient is accessed. A user interface is generate... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160841 | Bridge information modeling Systems, methods, and computer-storage media are provided that allow data from different sources and aspects of bridge design and construction to be merged into a common bridge information model. The bridge information model may include geometric, structural, survey... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157482 | Anchor system An anchor system for securing a cable within the ground. The system includes a body having a tapered cap and an internal cylindrical slot provided therethrough. A driving rod having an end with a smaller diameter is provided through the slot so that the driving rod ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156136 | Revising imagery search results based on user feedback A method, system, and medium are provided for revising a first set of search results related to high-resolution satellite imagery. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that seeks high-resolution, remotely sensed images of geographic areas that hav... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155579 | System and method for assigning and tracking clinical education requirements for healthcare students The present invention relates to a system and method of identifying clinical competencies to be completed by a healthcare student in a computerized environment. The method receives an academic unit of time for a healthcare student and identifies one or more correspo... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657167 | Chair-adjustment device | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150841 | Detecting spiking queries Methods, systems, and media are provided for identifying and clustering queries that are rising in popularity. Resultant clustered queries can be compared to other stored queries using textual and temporal correlations. Fresh indices containing information and resul... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150712 | User interface for presenting clinical order content based upon designated performance location Computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate performance locations for clinical orders having one or more phases associated therewith, and for presenting order catalog content that is flexed based upon the de... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150711 | Generating and managing medical documentation sets Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for generating and/or managing medical documentation sets are provided. Medical documentation sets are generated by replicating a predetermined medical template. After the predetermined medical template is... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149235 | System and method for upscaling low-resolution images A method is disclosed which may include providing an original image having an array of samples; defining a two-dimensional target image having a higher resolution than the original image; defining a splat in the target image for each of a plurality of samples in the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142137 | Cooled gas turbine vane assembly A gas turbine vane to improve vane performance by addressing known failure mechanisms. A cooling circuit to the trailing edge of a vane airfoil is fed from the outer diameter platform, which prevents failure due to an oxidized and eroded airfoil trailing edge. The g... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140974 | Presenting secondary media objects to a user Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for presenting secondary media objects are provided. A primary media presenting module presents primary media. Upon detecting an indication to initiate the presentation of a secondary media obj... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139495 | Determining quality of communication A method, computer-readable medium, and system for providing a quality measurement based on communications within a communication application. Communication attributes that include information associated with a user's communications are obtained. In embodiments, suc... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136943 | Testing/training visual perception speed and/or span System and methods for testing and/or training a subject's visual perception span and/or speed are provided. More specifically, a method may include testing/training various aspects of the subject's visual perception span/speed through the use of assessments that te... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136884 | Textile-attached deck assembly A seating product comprising a seat deck assembly secured at opposite ends to a frame. The seat deck assembly comprises a seat deck. A textile border is disposed between at least one end of the seat deck assembly and the frame. The textile border is attached to the ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136359 | Gas turbine fuel nozzle having improved thermal capability Embodiments for minimizing relative thermal growth within a fuel nozzle of a gas turbine combustor are disclosed. Fuel nozzle configurations are provided in which a heating fluid is provided to one or more passages in a fuel nozzle from feed holes in the fuel nozzle... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136047 | Multi-application tabbing system A method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen is described. The method includes steps of associating a first window with at least one second window, the at least one second window being independent of and external to the first window, and combin... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135750 | Efficiently describing relationships between resources A relationship data structure associated with a source resource enables methods to discover and describe relationships between the source resource and a plurality of target resources. The relationships are stored in a format independent of the encoding of the source... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132910 | Contrast sensitivity testing and/or training using circular contrast zones The contrast sensitivity of an individual may be tested and/or trained using a plurality of circular contrast zones. The individual may select the circular contrast zone having a different degree of contrast than the other circular contrast zones. For example, the i... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132679 | Convertible card row When displayed, greeting cards are typically organized on a display fixture having multiple rows or levels upon which to sit the cards. Each row then has a front wall to hold in the card, yet is short enough to still view a portion of the greeting card above the wal... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132347 | Interchangeable label holder When displaying products on a display hook, labels associated with the products are oftentimes presented via a label holder affixed to the display hook. Because various display hook structures exist, an interchangeable label holder can be utilized to adjoin to the v... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132126 | Controlling electronic components in a computing environment The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless point... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132125 | Freeform encounter selection tool A freeform selection tool for a computer system with a graphical user interface allows a user to draw a freeform selection path so as to select one or more graphical objects. The user is provided with the freedom to input selection ink, in any orientation, and using... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132104 | Multi-modal entry for electronic clinical documentation Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for populating an electronic clinical document capable of receiving multiple types of data are provided. In one embodiment, dictation audio input is embedded directly into one or more sections of an electronic clinical d... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131662 | Remote vision testing data collection This invention is related to systems and methods of providing sensory ability data from one or more remote locations to a central location. One embodiment of the present invention includes a method comprising the steps of testing the sensory ability of a subject to ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131591 | Updating contents of asynchronously refreshable webpages Embodiments of the invention provide ways to update and permit third-party advertising content of a webpage developed using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (“AJAX”) techniques. An illustrative method includes registering a set of possible triggering events that ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131561 | Inventory tracking for anatomic pathology consultations An on-line approach to coordinating intradepartmental anatomic pathology consultations, including coordinating access to physical case materials and/or electronic case materials, is provided. In accordance with one method in a clinical computing environment, a comma... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130240 | Target display for gamma calibration User interfaces are provided that allow for the display of a target element that may be used to adjust a gamma value of a display device. The target element includes three layers. A bottom static layer is alternating light and dark lines, which in one instance may b... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127252 | Method and system for presenting user interface (UI) information A method, apparatus, and medium are provided for providing a custom view of a set of user-interface elements (UI elements) to a requesting component. The method includes representing the UI elements as a raw tree structure composed of a set of nodes, which correspon... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126875 | Instant answers and integrated results of a browser A method, system, and medium are provided for searching multiple search services in parallel and utilizing multiple search providers in a computer system. Multiple search providers are installed onto a browser application of a user computer system. Upon receipt of a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126725 | Coordinating anatomic pathology consultations and inventory tracking An on-line approach to coordinating intradepartmental anatomic pathology consultations is provided. In accordance with one method in a clinical computing environment, a command to initiate the share event for the anatomic pathology case is received. Review of the an... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122253 | Data validation using signatures and sampling Architecture that facilitates validation of a data mapping of data from a data source to a data target. There is included a signature generation component that generates a source signature of all or a portion of the data source and a target signature of all or a cor... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122149 | Model-based datacenter management Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for model-based data center management. In embodiments, a request to perform a management operation on a device in a data center is received and available paths to the device are determined. The paths are determined base... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122049 | Advertising service based on content and user log mining A system and method are disclosed for providing documents related to a search request. The search request may include a search query of one or more keywords, or the search request may be a demographic search query including one or more demographic attributes. An ind... | 02/21/2012 |
