MEDICAL ANALYSIS APPLICATION AND RESPONSE SYSTEM

• US 20140100861A1
• Filed: 03/08/2013
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Ledet, David Gerard
• Application Number:
  US13/790,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20140100861A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/40 relating to drugs, e.g. their side effects or intended usage
• 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: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus and method of communicating with a user of a wireless device for medical analysis purposes. One example method of operation may include identifying a group of participants to receive a broadcast message transmitted from a wireless device. The method may also include automatically establishing a first tier of participants among the group of participants, and at least one additional tier of participants among the group of participants. The example method may also provide transmitting at least one broadcast message from the wireless device to the group of participants, and transmitting additional data to at least one member of the group of participants based on a predefined relationship between the at least one member of the group of participants and a user of the wireless device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

identifying a group of participants to receive at least one broadcast message transmitted from a wireless device;

automatically establishing a first tier of participants among the group of participants and designating at least one participant of the group of participants as part of the first tier of participants, wherein said automatically establishing a first tier of participants is based on a first tier selection criteria;

automatically establishing at least one additional tier of participants among the group of participants and designating at least one additional participant of the group of participants as part of a second tier of participants, wherein said automatically establishing at least one additional tier of participants is based on at least one additional tier selection criteria;

transmitting said at least one broadcast message from the wireless device to a plurality of computing devices corresponding to said group of participants, the at least one broadcast message is transmitted to the first tier of participants and the at least one additional tier of participants; and

transmitting additional data to at least one member of said group of participants based on predefined relationship data identifying a relationship between the at least one member of the group of participants and said wireless device, wherein the additional data is transmitted to the first tier of participants.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one broadcast message is sent via at least one of a short message service (SMS) format, a video format, an audio format, and wherein the plurality of computing devices comprise at least one of a smartphone, cell phone, tablet computing device, personal computer, and a laptop computer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a member of the group of participants is configured to receive the at least one broadcast message according to a predefined delivery preference specified to the participants of said group of participants.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the predefined delivery preference specifies at least one of a SMS message delivery preference, an email message delivery preference, a phone call message delivery preference, and a voicemail message delivery preference.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one broadcast message comprises a first data type and the additional data comprises a second data type that is different from the first data type.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a message transfer history of the wireless device based on a number of messages transferred from a mobile device to the participants in said group of participants;

identifying a first group of participants having been sent more messages than a remaining group of participants that have been sent fewer messages than the first group of participants based on the message transfer history;

designating the first group of participants as part of the first tier of participants; and

designating the second group of participants as part of the second tier of participants.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first tier of participants are configured to receive data messages corresponding to at least two of text data, video data, audio data, and the second tier of participants are configured to receive one of text data, video data and audio data.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to

identify a group of participants to receive at least one broadcast message,

automatically establish a first tier of participants among the group of participants and designate at least one participant of the group of participants as part of the first tier of participants, wherein said automatically establishment of a first tier of participants is based on a first tier selection criteria,

automatically establish at least one additional tier of participants among the group of participants and designates at least one additional participant of the group of participants as part of a second tier of participants, wherein said automatically establishment at least one additional tier of participants is based on at least one additional tier selection criteria; and

a transmitter configured to

transmit said at least one broadcast message from a wireless device to a plurality of computing devices corresponds to said group of participants, the at least one broadcast message is transmitted to the first tier of participants and the at least one additional tier of participants, and

transmit additional data to at least one member of said group of participants based on predefined relationship data identifies a relationship between the at least one member of the group of participants and said wireless device, wherein the additional data is transmitted to the first tier of participants.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the at least one broadcast message is sent via at least one of a short message service (SMS) format, a video format, an audio format, and wherein the plurality of computing devices comprise at least one of a smartphone, cell phone, tablet computing device, personal computer, and a laptop computer.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein a member of the group of participants is configured to receive the at least one broadcast message in accord with a predefined delivery preference specified to the members of said group of participants.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the predefined delivery preference specifies at least one of a SMS message delivery preference, an email message delivery preference, a phone call message delivery preference, and a voicemail message delivery preference.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the at least one broadcast message comprises a first data type and the additional data comprises a second data type that is different from the first data type.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processor is further configured to

identify a message transfer history of the wireless device based on a number of messages transferred from a mobile device to the participants in said group of participants,

identify a first group of participants that have been sent more messages than a remaining group of participants that have been sent fewer messages than the first group of participants based on the message transfer history;

designate the first group of participants as part of the first tier of participants, and

designate a second group of participants as part of the second tier of participants.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first tier of participants are configured to receive data messages corresponds to at least two of text data, video data, audio data, and the second tier of participants are configured to receive one of text data, video data and audio data.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed causes a processor to perform:

identifying a group of participants to receive at least one broadcast message transmitted from a wireless device;

automatically establishing a first tier of participants among the group of participants and designating at least one participant of the group of participants as part of the first tier of participants, wherein said automatically establishing a first tier of participants is based on a first tier selection criteria;

automatically establishing at least one additional tier of participants among the group of participants and designating at least one additional participant of the group of participants as part of a second tier of participants, wherein said automatically establishing at least one additional tier of participants is based on at least one additional tier selection criteria;

transmitting said at least one broadcast message from the wireless device to a plurality of computing devices corresponding to said group of participants, the at least one broadcast message is transmitted to the first tier of participants and the at least one additional tier of participants; and

transmitting additional data to at least one member of said group of participants based on predefined relationship data identifying a relationship between the at least one member of the group of participants and said wireless device, wherein the additional data is transmitted to the first tier of participants.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the at least one broadcast message is sent via at least one of a short message service (SMS) format, a video format, an audio format, and wherein the plurality of computing devices comprise at least one of a smartphone, cell phone, tablet computing device, personal computer, and a laptop computer.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein a member of the group of participants is configured to receive the at least one broadcast message according to a predefined delivery preference specified to the participants of said group of participants.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the predefined delivery preference specifies at least one of a SMS message delivery preference, an email message delivery preference, a phone call message delivery preference, and a voicemail message delivery preference.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the at least one broadcast message comprises a first data type and the additional data comprises a second data type that is different from the first data type.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to perform:

identifying a message transfer history of the wireless device based on a number of messages transferred from a mobile device to the participants in said group of participants;

identifying a first group of participants having been sent more messages than a remaining group of participants that have been sent fewer messages than the first group of participants based on the message transfer history;

designating the first group of participants as part of the first tier of participants; and

designating a second group of participants as part of the second tier of participants, and wherein the first tier of participants are configured to receive data messages corresponding to at least two of text data, video data, audio data, and the second tier of participants are configured to receive one of text data, video data and audio data.