Personalized Medicine System

• US 20120010867A1
• Filed: 09/21/2011
• Published: 01/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Square Halt Solutions Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Square Halt Solutions Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Eder, Jeffrey Scott
• Application Number:
  US13/239,241
• Publication Number:
  US 20120010867A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/13
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders

Abstract

A method, computer program product and system for providing an architecture for context aware computing that transforms data obtained from a plurality of sources into a plurality of predictive models and contexts. The predictive models and contexts support a plurality of context aware applications.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer program product tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium and comprising a program code for directing at least one computer to complete processing in accordance with an architecture for context aware computing by:

providing a data access layer operable to;

obtain data from a plurality of sources comprising a user, one or more external databases, one or more devices, a world wide web and a plurality of narrow systems, accept a subject definition, accept one or more subject function definitions, accept one or more subject function measure definitions and store the data and definitions in a format suitable for processing,

providing a modeling layer operable to develop and output;

a linear or nonlinear predictive model for each defined function measure, a measure layer that comprises a relative contribution of one or more drivers of a function measure performance for each measure, a linear or nonlinear model of a dynamic relationship between the one or more drivers of performance for each measure and one or more additional context layers for the subject,

providing a context frame layer that defines and outputs one or more contexts for the subject where said contexts each comprise said measure layer and the one or more additional context layers, and providing one or more applications that use said one or more contexts to complete one or more useful context-aware functions

where a linearity of each of said function measure models is determined during model development and where said one or more applications comprise applications for a mobile device.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the one or more additional context layers developed by the modeling layer are selected from the group consisting of environment, reference, resource, relationship, element, transaction and lexicon where the element context layer, the resource context layer and the transaction context layer are further developed by the modeling layer after first being created by mapping and storing at least part of the data obtained from the plurality of sources.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the one or more applications are selected from the group consisting of collaboration, index development, input capture, knowledge capture, personalized journal creation, profile development, rule development, scout, search and summary.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the subject physically exists and is selected from the group consisting of individual, team, group, department, division, company, and enterprise.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the context comprises a context for a health of the subject where the subject consists of a patient or a patient-entity system, where the entity consists of an entity from the natural environment domain.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the entity from the natural environment domain consists of a microbiome.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the one or more applications are selected from the group consisting of auditing, benefit plan analysis, customization, exchange, forecast, metric development, optimization, planning, project management, review, sustainability forecast, transaction, underwriting and wellness program optimization.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein developing the one or more of function measure models from the data comprises completing a multi stage process for each model where each stage of said process comprises an automated selection of an output from a plurality of output produced by a plurality of models after processing at least part of the data

where the linearity of each measure model is determined by an evaluation of an accuracy of at least one linear model and at least one nonlinear model in the final stage of the process,

where the plurality of models are selected from a group of statistical and predictive models for at least one stage of processing, and

where the plurality of models are selected from a group of causal models for at least one stage of processing.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the one or more applications are selected from the group consisting of benefit plan analysis, customization, display, exchange, forecast, index development, input capture, knowledge capture, metric development, optimization, planning, profile development, review, rule development, scout, search, summary, sustainability forecast and wellness program optimization.

10. A context-aware system, comprising:

a computer with a processor having circuitry to execute instructions;

a storage device available to said processor with sequences of instructions stored therein, which when executed cause the processor to;

provide a data access layer operable to;

obtain data from a plurality of sources comprising a user, one or more external databases, one or more devices, a world wide web and a plurality of narrow systems, accept a subject definition, accept one or more subject function definitions, accept one or more subject function measure definitions and store the data and definitions in a format suitable for processing,

provide a modeling layer operable to develop and output;

a linear or nonlinear predictive model for each defined function measure, a measure layer that comprises a relative contribution of one or more drivers of a function measure performance for each measure, a linear or nonlinear model of a dynamic relationship between the one or more drivers of performance for each measure and one or more additional context layers for the subject,

provide a context frame layer that defines and outputs one or more contexts where said contexts each comprise said measure layer and the one or more additional context layers, and

provide one or more applications that use said one or more contexts to complete one or more useful context-aware functions

where a linearity of each of said function measure models is determined during model development and where said one or more applications comprise applications for a mobile device.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more additional context layers developed by the modeling layer are selected from the group consisting of environment, reference, resource, relationship, element, transaction and lexicon where the element context layer, the resource context layer and the transaction context layer are developed by the modeling layer after first being created by mapping and storing at least part of the data obtained from the plurality of sources.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more applications are selected from the group consisting of collaboration, index development, input capture, knowledge capture, personalized journal creation, profile development, rule development, scout, search and summary.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the subject physically exists and is selected from the group consisting of individual, team, group, department, division, company, and enterprise.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the context comprises a context for a health of the subject where the subject consists of a patient or a patient-entity system, where the entity consists of an entity from the natural environment domain.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the entity from the natural environment domain consists of a microbiome.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the one or more applications are selected from the group consisting of auditing, benefit plan analysis, customization, exchange, forecast, metric development, optimization, planning, project management, review, sustainability forecast, transaction, underwriting and wellness program optimization. selected from the group consisting of one or more elements, one or more factors, one or more resources and one or more risks

17. The system of claim 10, wherein developing the one or more of function measure models from the data comprises completing a multi stage process for each model where each stage of said process comprises an automated selection of an output from a plurality of output produced by a plurality of different types of models after processing at least part of the data

where the linearity of each measure model is determined by an evaluation of an accuracy of at least one linear model and at least one nonlinear model in the final stage of the process,

where the plurality of different types of models are selected from the group consisting of neural network, classification and regression trees, projection pursuit regression, generalized additive model, redundant regression network, linear regression;

support vector method, multivalent adaptive regression spine and stepwise regression for at least one stage of processing,

where the plurality of models are selected from the group consisting of Tetrad, MML, Bayes and path analysis for at least one stage of processing, and

where at least one model is selected from the group consisting of polynomial, path analysis and entropy minimization for at least one stage of processing.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the one or more applications are selected from the group consisting of benefit plan analysis, customization, display, exchange, forecast, index development, input capture, knowledge capture, metric development, optimization, planning, profile development, review, rule development, scout, search, summary, sustainability forecast and wellness program optimization.

19. A method for context aware computing, comprising:

using a computer to complete at least one of the steps of;

providing a data access layer operable to;

obtain data from a plurality of sources comprising a user, one or more external databases, one or more devices, a world wide web and a plurality of narrow systems, accept a subject definition, accept one or more subject function definitions, accept one or more subject function measure definitions and store the data and definitions in a format suitable for processing,

providing a modeling layer operable to develop and output;

a linear or nonlinear predictive model for each defined function measure, a measure layer that comprises a relative contribution of one or more drivers of a function measure performance for each measure, a linear or nonlinear model of a dynamic relationship between the one or more drivers of performance for each measure and one or more additional context layers for the subject,

providing a context frame layer that defines and outputs one or more contexts where said contexts each comprise said measure layer and the one or more additional context layers, and

providing one or more applications that use said one or more contexts to complete one or more useful context-aware functions

where a linearity of each of said function measure models is determined during model development and where said one or more applications comprise applications for a mobile device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the one or more additional context layers developed by the modeling layer are selected from the group consisting of environment, reference, resource, relationship, element, transaction and lexicon.