Remote data viewer

• US 10,108,816 B2
• Filed: 07/04/2016
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tailstream Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Tailstream Technologies LLC
• Inventors: Wise, Kelley D
• Primary Examiner(s): Jeudy, Josnel
• Application Number:
  US15/201,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20160314317A1
• Time in Patent Office: 841 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/606 by securing the transmission between two devices or processes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/032 Protect output to user by software means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0079 Medical imaging device

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 of 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

1. A method of providing data to a recipient, comprising:

streaming data to a media player that is comprised of

a virtual machine that is processing the data independently of an operating system of a remote receiving electronic device,

the virtual machine processing the data inside a service selected from a group consisting of a sandbox and a browser, the service acting as a buffer within the remote receiving electronic device; and

providing user controls on the media player that allow a user to display and manipulate the display of the streamed data without requiring the streamed data to first be completely downloaded to the persistent memory of the remote receiving electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is image data, and the media player is application service software.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is audio data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is the audio data of a video.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the service is within the operating system, and the virtual machine within the service operates independently of the operating system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein streaming data to the media player includes pushing the data to the virtual machine.

7. A system for sending data over a wide area network to a remote secure execution environment, the system comprising:

a first non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing a first computer program configured to, when executed on a first processing unit;

push the data to the remote secure execution environment of a remote electronic device running a virtual machine that

processes the data independently of an operating system of the remote electronic device,

operates inside the remote secure execution environment within the remote electronic device, and

provides media player user controls that allow a user to display and manipulate the display of the data without requiring the data to be completely downloaded to the persistent memory of the remote electronic device.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the data is image data.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the data is audio data.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein

the first non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing the computer program is further configured to, when executed on the processing unit:

stream the data to the remote electronic device upon a request from the remote electric device.

11. The system of claim 7 wherein the remote secure execution environment is logically independent of the operating system.

12. The system of claim 7 wherein the sent data includes both media data and origin of information data related to the media data.

13. The electronic device of claim 7 wherein the remote secure execution environment is a service selected from a group consisting of a sandbox and a browser, the service acting as a buffer.

14. The system of claim 7 further comprising:

a second non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing a second computer program configured to, when executed on a second processing unit;

provide non-streamed website data to the remote electronic device for providing a website running the virtual machine.