Remote medical system

• US 5,951,469 A
• Filed: 09/01/1998
• Issued: 09/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Medinet Security Research Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Medinet Security Research Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamaura, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): GILBERT, SAMUEL G
• Application Number:
  US09/144,461
• Time in Patent Office: 378 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3, 128/903, 128/904, 128/920, 128/924, 600/300, 600/301
• US Class Current: 600/300
• 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: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• 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: 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/00 Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems

Abstract

A remote medical system in which vital signs and a recognition code of a counselee are transferred to a first local server through a telephone line, and, when a counseling doctor cannot be found, data is transferred to another nth local server to search for an available counseling doctor, so that an available counseling doctor can be easily found.

Claims

1. A remote medical monitoring method, comprising the steps of:

a) transmitting vital signs and a recognition code of a counselee to a first local server through a telephone line;

b) causing said first local server to identify a first counseling doctor of the counselee using the transmitted recognition code and causing said first local server to determine whether the first counseling doctor is available, wherein the first counseling doctor is registered as part of a first group of counseling doctors associated with said first local server;

c) transferring data of the counselee to the first counseling doctor when the first counseling doctor is available;

d) when the first counseling doctor is not available, causing said first local server to determine if a second counseling doctor who can counsel the counselee is available from the first group of counseling doctors;

e) transferring data of the counselee to the second counseling doctor when the second counseling doctor is available;

f) when all doctors of the first group of doctors are not available;

causing the first local server to transfer the data to a central server; and

g) causing said central server to locate an available counseling doctor in a second local server who can counsel the counselee so as to transfer the data of the counselee to the available counseling doctor in the second local server who can counsel the counselee.

2. A remote medical monitoring method, comprising the steps of:

a) transmitting data including a recognition code of a counselee to a first local server;

b) causing said first local server to identify a first counseling doctor of the counselee using the transmitted recognition code and causing said first local server to determine whether the first counseling doctor is available, wherein the first counseling doctor is registered with said first local server;

c) transferring the data of the counselee to the first counseling doctor when the first counseling doctor is available;

d) when the first counseling doctor is not available, causing said first local server to determine if a second counseling doctor who can counsel the counselee and who is registered with said first local server is available;

e) transferring the data of the counselee to the second counseling doctor when the second counseling doctor is available

f) when there are no available counseling doctors who are registered with said first local server, causing the first local server to transfer the data to a central server; and

g) causing said central server to locate an available counseling doctor in a second local server who can counsel the counselee so as to transfer the data of the counselee to the available counseling doctor in the second local server.