# US 2010/0169642 A1 · Remote virtual medical diagnostic imaging viewer

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- Number: US 2010/0169642 A1
- Document ID: US20100169642A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 12/723,283
- Filed: 2010-03-12
- Published: 2010-07-01
- Earliest claimed: 2002-06-10
- Assignees: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
- Inventors: Kelley Wise; Meredith Shaebanyan
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20100169642A1

## CPC

- G06F 21/6245: {Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes}
- G06F 21/53: by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
- G06F 21/606: {by securing the transmission between two devices or processes}
- G06T 11/00: Two-dimensional [2D] image generation
- G16H 10/60: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
- G16H 30/20: for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
- G16H 40/67: for remote operation
- H04N 1/00209: {Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax}
- H04N 1/00244: {with a server, e.g. an internet server (fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324)}
- G06F 2221/032: Protect output to user by software means
- G06F 2221/2149: Restricted operating environment
- H04N 2201/0079: Medical imaging device
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
- G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

A medical image and data application service provider system provides a way of remotely viewing and manipulating medical images and data for diagnostic and visualization purposes by users unconstrained by geography. Medical images and data are stored on one or more servers running application service provider software along with meta-data such as access control information, origin of information and references to related data. A set of medical data consisting related information is sent as an encrypted stream to a viewing station running client software in a secure execution environment that is logically independent of the viewing station's operating system.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of providing data to a recipient, comprising:
running a virtual machine on the recipient's computer under control of an external device;
receiving the data by the remote virtual machine; and
using the virtual machine to display the data.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the step of using the virtual machine reconstructs an image from which the data was created.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the step of using the virtual machine further comprises producing an image from the data inside a buffer of the recipient's computer.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising a user utilizing a matrix transformation to modify the data.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising using a matrix transformation to manipulate the data.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The method of claim 5, wherein the matrix transformation is applied interactively.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises only a single image.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises a medical diagnostic image.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8, wherein the image is selected from the list consisting of an MRI image, a Cat Scan image, a PET image, and an X-Ray.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising:
encrypting the data;
streaming the encrypted data to the virtual machine of the recipient's computer;
using the virtual machine to decrypt the encrypted data; and
using the virtual machine to display and interact with the decrypted data.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the data comprises a video.

### Claim 12 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the data comprises a file.