INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20130268587A1
• Filed: 12/01/2011
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Ueda, Yutaka
• Application Number:
  US13/994,408
• Publication Number:
  US 20130268587A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

An information processing device includes a first storage unit, a transmission unit, a delete unit and a display control unit. The transmission unit transmits image data acquired from an examination device and stored in the first storage unit to a data management server to store the image data in a second storage unit of the data management server. The delete unit deletes the image data from the first storage unit if a predetermined condition is satisfied. The display control unit searches the first and second storage units for the image data, acquires the image data from the first storage unit with respect to the image data stored in the first storage unit, and acquires the image data from the second storage unit with respect to the image data not stored in the first storage unit.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an acquirement unit which acquires image data from an examination device;

a first storage unit which temporarily stores the image data acquired from the examination device;

a communication unit which transmits the image data stored in the first storage unit to a data management server so as to store the image data in a second storage unit of the data management server connected to the communication unit via a communication network so as to perform data communication;

a delete unit which deletes the image data stored in the first storage unit from the first storage unit in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied; and

a display control unit which searches the first storage unit and the second storage unit for the image data, acquires the image data from the first storage unit and displays an image on a display unit on the basis of the image data acquired from the first storage unit with respect to the image data stored in the first storage unit, and acquires the image data from the second storage unit and displays an image on the display unit on the basis of the image data acquired from the second storage unit with respect to the image data not stored in the first storage unit.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the delete unit deletes the image data stored in the first storage unit from the first storage unit in response to a predetermined period elapsing from when the image data is stored in the first storage unit.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

a process performed by the information processing device is performed in accordance with an application program downloaded from the data management server, and

the information processing device further comprises a program update unit which, in response to a newer application program than the downloaded application program existing in the data management server, downloads the newer application program from the data management server.

4. A data management system comprising:

an information processing device including a first storage unit which temporarily stores image data acquired from an examination device; and

a data management server including a second storage unit which stores the image data transmitted from the information processing device connected to the data management server via a communication network so as to perform data communication, wherein

the information processing device includes;

a communication unit which transmits the image data stored in the first storage unit to the data management server so as to store the image data in the second storage unit;

a delete unit which deletes the image data stored in the first storage unit from the first storage unit in response to a predetermined condition being satisfied; and

a display control unit which searches the first storage unit and the second storage unit for the image data, acquires the image data from the first storage unit and displays an image on a display unit on the basis of the image data stored in the first storage unit with respect to the image data stored in the first storage unit, and acquires the image data from the second storage unit and displays an image on the display unit on the basis of the image data stored in the second storage unit with respect to the image data not stored in the first storage unit.

5. The data management system according to claim 4, wherein the delete unit deletes the image data stored in the first storage unit from the first storage unit in response to a predetermined period elapsing from when the image data is stored in the first storage unit.

6. The data management system according to claim 4, wherein

a process performed by the information processing device is performed in accordance with an application program downloaded from the data management server, and

the information processing device further includes a program update unit which, in response to a newer application program than the downloaded application program existing in the data management server, downloads the newer application program from the data management server.

7. The data management system according to claim 6, wherein the data management server further includes a fee calculation unit which calculates a fee for use of the data management system by the information processing device on the basis of a data amount of the image data stored in the second storage unit and a number of times the application program is used.