US 7,606,861 B2Granted

Medical network system and method for transfer of information

AssigneeNexsys Electronics, Inc.

InventorsPeter M. Killcommons, Lawrence Foard, IV

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Abstract

The assembly and communication of multimedia information from a variety of modalities to remote users with improved control is provided for by the combined use of a browser enhancement module, such as a plug-in or ActiveX control, and a server. The server includes a data interface for acquiring the multimedia data and a storage unit for receiving and storing the data. An assembly unit in the server gathers selected data to form an e-mail package in response to instructions from a remote user unit. The server further includes a processing unit to encode and compress the data prior to packaging and an e-mail server to send the package to the remote user unit or another designated user unit. Transfer instructions for the server may be provided by the remote user unit through a browser and the browser enhancement module. The browser enhancement module is therefore configured to request a file from the server, to decompress and decode received files and to transfer such files along with a user interface to a display associated with the remote user unit. The browser enhancement module is further adapted to send instructions to the server to assemble and to e-mail selected data from a file to another user unit.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computer readable storage medium having a plurality of sequences of instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:

retrieve a browser enhancement module from a server, the browser enhancement module including code modules and hypertext data, the hypertext data representing a partial portion of a web page for a user interface to display medical data, the user interface including one or more linked hypertext pages including manipulation elements;
subsequent to the retrieving, detect a type of a browser application used by the computer;
send a request for the medical data via the code modules of the browser enhancement module integrated with the browser application;
in response to an email received for the request, extract the medical data and a remaining portion of the web page from the e-mail, the medical data having a 3-D volumetric rendering element, and a 3-D surface rendering element, the partial portion and the remaining portion being separate portions of the web page;
merge the partial portion of the web page from the hypertext data of the browser enhancement module with the remaining portion of the web page from the email received to form the web page for the user interface;
decompress the medical data received from the email according to the code modules of the browser enhancement module;
decode the medical data according to the code modules of the browser enhancement module;
rendering the web page for the user interface including the one or more hypertext pages via the browser application on a display;
transfer the medical data to the display according to the remaining portion of the web page in the rendering;
and
control a view of a 3-D medical image rendered by the server via the manipulation elements of the partial portion of the web page.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/201,731Filed 22 Jul 2002 · continuation
Priority: 25 Nov 1998
Published: US 2002/0184325 A15 Dec 2002
Granted: 20 Oct 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G16H 10/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic…
G06F 16/10
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: file systems; File servers
G16H
Healthcare informatics, i.e. information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for the
G06F
Computing and data processing