SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING DOCUMENTS SENT OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

• US 20070100932A1
• Filed: 12/07/2006
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Health Hero Network Incorporated (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Health Hero Network Incorporated (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Brown, Stephen
• Granted Patent: US 8,095,591 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/04 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying a further explanation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data

Abstract

On-line health education includes displaying composites of personalized health content and patient-selected entertainment. Suitable sources of entertainment include generally available web pages and television programs. Composites are spatial (for page displays) or temporal (for image sequence displays). Health content is customized to health and personal situations of individual patients, and replaces advertisements. Composites are generated on a central server in communication with an entertainment server and a health server. Amenable diseases or behaviors include diabetes, asthma, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, eating disorders, HIV, mental health disorders, smoking, and alcohol and drug abuse.

Claims

1. A system for generating documents, said system comprising:

a first server configured to provide a first content to be sent over at least one communication network;

a second server configured to (i) receive said first content from said first server and (ii) generate one or more documents using said first content; and

a processor unit configured to receive said one or more documents sent over said at least one communication network.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a third server coupled to said second server, wherein said third server is configured to provide information for personalizing said first content.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said first content comprises entertainment content.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein said entertainment content comprises hypertext markup language (HTML).

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein said entertainment content comprises hypertext markup language (HTML) selected from the group consisting of home pages of companies, home pages of organizations, internet directories, sports news pages and stock quotation pages.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said one or more documents are generated by replacing undesirable material in said first content with desired material.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein said undesirable material comprises an advertisement.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein said undesirable material is replaced with health-related material.

9. The system according to claim 6, wherein said undesirable material is replaced with material comprising one or more types of data selected from the group consisting of video, audio, hypertext and text-to-speech data.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein said one or more documents are generated by inserting material into a blank section of said first content.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the material inserted comprises health-related material.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein said one or more documents are generated by adding material to said first content.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the material added comprises health-related material.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein said second server is further configured to personalize said first content using health data.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein said health data comprises one or more types of data selected from the group consisting of a medical treatment regimen, a health profile, an educational treatment plan, a psychological profile and a patient history.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein said psychological profile comprises one or more types of information selected from the group consisting of (i) information gathered from tests of a patient, (ii) information gathered from questionnaires and (iii) information gathered by monitoring usage of the system.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein said information gathered by monitoring usage of the system is gathered by recording subjects corresponding to material clicked on.

18. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a display device connected to said processor unit and configured to display said one or more documents.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein said display device comprises a television display.

20. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one communication network comprises a computer network.

21. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one communication network comprises a cable network.

22. The system according to claim 1, wherein said second server is part of a television delivery system.

23. A system for generating documents, said system comprising:

a first server for providing a first content to be sent over at least one communication network;

a second server for providing a second content; and

a processor unit coupled to said first server and said second server, wherein said processor unit is configured to generate one or more documents by using said first content and said second content.

24. The system according to claim 23, further comprising:

a third server coupled to said second server, wherein said third server is configured to provide information for personalizing said first content.

25. The system according to claim 24, wherein said first content is personalized using health data.

26. The system according to claim 25, wherein said health data comprises one or more types of data selected from the group consisting of a medical treatment regimen, a health profile, an educational treatment plan, a psychological profile and a patient history.

27. The system according to claim 26, wherein said psychological profile comprises one or more types of information selected from the group consisting of (i) information gathered from tests of a patient, (ii) information gathered from questionnaires and (iii) information gathered by monitoring usage of the system.

28. The system according to claim 27, wherein said information gathered by monitoring usage of the system is gathered by recording subjects corresponding to material clicked on.

29. The system according to claim 23, wherein said first content comprises hypertext markup language (HTML).

30. The system according to claim 23, wherein said second content comprises one or more types of data selected from the group consisting of video, audio, hypertext and text-to-speech data.

31. The system according to claim 23, wherein generating said one or more documents using said first content and said second content comprises one or more acts selected from the group consisting of (i) replacing an undesirable section of said first content with said second content, (ii) replacing a blank section of said first content with said second content and (iii) adding said second content to said first content.

32. The system according to claim 23, wherein said processor unit comprises a personal computer.

33. The system according to claim 23, wherein said at least one communication network comprises one or more networks selected from the group consisting of a computer network and a cable network.