Information transfer method, information transfer system, information inputting method, information input device, and system for supporting various operations

• US 5,986,568 A
• Filed: 09/30/1996
• Issued: 11/16/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kondo, Masafumi, Suzuki, Takuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILSON JR, WILLIAM HALL
• Application Number:
  US08/722,983
• Time in Patent Office: 1,142 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.52, 340/825.19, 340/825.15, 340/825.44, 128/903, 128/904, 455/507, 455/557, 455/517, 345/333, 345/326, 345/168, 395/893, 395/894, 707/104, 707/1, 707/10, 370/392, 370/395
• US Class Current: 340/9.1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• 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: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

Information inputted from an information terminal and destination information of a third person added to specific information which should be transferred to the third person and which is included in the information inputted are transferred to an information processing unit through a communication unit and are accumulated in a data base of the information processing unit, the specific information is extracted from the information accumulated in the data base on the basis of the destination information, thereby preparing a file and the specific information accumulated in the file is transmitted to the third person.

Claims

1. A data transmitting method in a system in which data inputted from an information terminal unit is transmitted through a server having a database, the method comprising the steps of:

inputting data by the information terminal unit, the inputted data constituting a data record;

arbitrarily designating specific data in the data record by a user through the information terminal unit;

appending destination address data to the designated specific data in the data record by a user through the information terminal unit, the destination address data being an address to which the server transfers the designated specific data;

transmitting the data record including the designated specific data with the destination address appended to the server by the information terminal unit;

storing the transmitted data record into the database, by the server;

automatically extracting the specific data with the destination address appended in the data record from the database by the server, using the destination address as a key for retrieval;

transmitting the extracted specific data to the appended destination address by the server.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data transmitted to the server comprises predetermined fixed-form data regarding a predetermined item and arbitrary data permitted to be inputted in relation to the predetermined item, the predetermined fixed form data and the arbitrary data constituting the data record.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the server prepares a file of the extracted specific data.

4. A data transmitting system in which data inputted from an information terminal unit is transmitted through a server having a database, the system comprising:

the information terminal unit comprising;

means for inputting data, the inputted data constituting a data record;

means for arbitrarily designating specific data in the data record;

means for appending destination address information to the designated specific data in the data record, the destination address data being an address to which the server transfers the designated specific data; and

means for transmitting the data record including the designated specific data with the destination address appended to the server; and

the server comprising;

means for storing the transmitted data record in the database;

means for automatically extracting the specific data using the destination address as a key for retrieval; and

transmitting means for transmitting the extracted specific data to the appended destination address.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the means for transmitting the data record transmits the specific data through communication means which is preliminarily determined according to a person as the destination.

6. The system according to claim 4, further comprising a receiver for receiving the specific data transmitted from the server;

wherein the means for transmitting the data record sets, as the destination, an identifier of the receiver which is preliminarily determined according to a time zone for transmitting the specific data.

7. The system according to claim 4, wherein the data transmitted to the server comprises predetermined fixed form data regarding a predetermined item and arbitrary data permitted to be inputted in relation to the predetermined item, the predetermined fixed form data and the arbitrary data constituting the data record.

8. The system according to claim 4, wherein the server prepares a file of the specific data.