SERVER,CONFERENCE ROOM MANAGEMENT METHOD OF SERVER, AND NETWORK CONFERENCE SYSTEM

• US 20120096091A1
• Filed: 10/03/2011
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyama, Seiji, Kajimoto, Masato, Yamane, Kenji, Kishima, Koichiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,288,330 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems

Abstract

A server connected to a client terminal via a network, includes a conference room management unit that manages a conference room for holding a conference, and a medical image holding unit that holds the predetermined number of medical image data including medical image data linked to the conference, wherein the conference room management unit manages one state which is a conference live state and other states which are different from the one state as a conference room state.

Claims

1. A server connected to a client terminal via a network, the server comprising:

a conference room management unit configured to manage a conference room for holding a conference; and

a medical image holding unit configured to hold a predetermined number of medical image data including medical image data linked to the conference,

wherein the conference room management unit is configured to manage one state, which is a conference live state, and other states, which are different from the one state as a conference room state.

2. The server according to claim 1, wherein the other states include a conference scheduled state positioned prior to the conference live state.

3. The server according to claim 1, wherein the other states include a conference stored state positioned after the conference live state.

4. The server according to claim 1, further comprising:

a comment information holding unit configured to hold comment information given to medical image data which is held in the medical image holding unit,

wherein the comment information holding unit is configured to hold comment information given to the medical image data during the conference so as to be correlated with the conference, thereby differentiating the comment information from comment information given at other times.

5. The server according to claim 1, further comprising an image processing unit configured to perform a process for smoothly inspecting a medical image in the client terminal, for medical image data held in the medical image holding unit.

6. The server according to claim 5, wherein the image processing unit is configured to preferentially perform the process for the medical image data, which is scheduled to be used in the conference.

7. The server according to claim 6, wherein the medical image holding unit includes an HDD and an SSD as a storage medium, and

wherein the image processing unit is configured to copy or move the medical image data, which is scheduled to be used in the conference, from the HDD to the SSD.

8. The server according to claim 1, further comprising a medical image mark information holding unit configured to hold mark information, which is selectively given to the predetermined number of the medical image data held in the medical image holding unit.

9. The server according to claim 1, further comprising a conference operation history data holding unit configured to hold operation history data during the conference.

10. The server according to claim 1, further comprising a time marker holding unit configured to hold time markers indicating remarkable points given to the conference on a time axis.

11. The server according to claim 10, wherein the time markers comprise a first time marker given during the conference and/or a second time marker given during replay of the conference, and

wherein the time marker holding unit is configured to hold the first and second time markers so as to be differentiated from each other.

12. The server according to claim 1, wherein the conference room management unit has a function of resuming a closed conference by transitioning the conference room state.

13. The server according to claim 12, wherein the other states include a conference scheduled state positioned prior to the conference live state and a conference stored state positioned posterior to the conference live state, and

wherein the conference room management unit has a function of resuming a closed conference by transitioning the conference room state from the conference stored state to the conference scheduled state or to the conference live state.

14. The server according to claim 12, further comprising a conference operation history data holding configured to hold operation history data during the conference,

wherein the conference operation history data holding unit is configured to hold operation history data obtained by adding operation history data during a conference of the resumed conference to copy data of operation history data during a conference of the closed conference, as operation history data during a conference of the resumed conference.

15. The server according to claim 1, wherein the medical image holding unit is configured to generate a confirmation message when medical image data instructed to be deleted is linked to the conference.

16. A conference room management method of a server connected to a client terminal via a network, the method comprising:

managing one state, which is a conference live state, and other states, which are different from the one state.

17. A network conference system comprising:

a server; and

a client terminal that is connected to server via a network,

wherein the server includes;

a conference room management unit configured to manage a conference room for holding a conference; and

a medical image holding unit configured to hold a predetermined number of medical image data including medical image data linked to the conference, and

wherein the conference room management unit is configured to manage one state, which is a conference live state and other states, which are different from the one state as a conference room state.

18. A server connected to a client terminal via a network, the server comprising:

a conference room management unit configured to manage a conference room for holding a conference;

a medical image holding unit configured to hold a predetermined number of medical image data including medical image data linked to the conference; and

a comment information holding unit configured to hold comment information given to medical image data which is held in the medical image holding unit,

wherein the comment information holding unit is configured to hold comment information given to the medical image data during the conference so as to be correlated with the conference, thereby differentiating the comment information from comment information given at other times.