Systems for receiving and forming marketplaces for working on digital information blocks
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1. A computer system configured by software to execute a method, the computer system comprising:
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wherein the memory of the computer system containsa plurality of links to respective digital information blocks,wherein each of the links refers to a single one of the digital information blocks;
in association with each link, a bid amount; and
in association with each link, descriptive information,wherein the descriptive information is directly related to the respective digital information block for that link; and
wherein the method comprises;
receiving, from a source external to the computer system, an electronic communication comprising information;
transmitting at least a portion of an ordered list of links;
wherein the links of the ordered list of links are selected links of the plurality of links for which at least some of the associated descriptive information matches at least some of the electronic communication information; and
wherein the ordered list of links has been arranged into an order being determined responsive to at least the software and the bid amount associated with each of the links of the plurality of links.
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Abstract
A remote access medical image exchange system utilizes a decentralized, i.e., self-organizing, distribution system combined with bid queues to establish a market place which allows for continuously negotiated prices with control (over who reads the images, when they are read and what the fee will be for such a reading) being placed in the hands of the patient/gatekeeper and the diagnostic physician.
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1. A computer system configured by software to execute a method, the computer system comprising:
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memory; wherein the memory of the computer system contains a plurality of links to respective digital information blocks, wherein each of the links refers to a single one of the digital information blocks; in association with each link, a bid amount; and in association with each link, descriptive information, wherein the descriptive information is directly related to the respective digital information block for that link; and wherein the method comprises; receiving, from a source external to the computer system, an electronic communication comprising information; transmitting at least a portion of an ordered list of links; wherein the links of the ordered list of links are selected links of the plurality of links for which at least some of the associated descriptive information matches at least some of the electronic communication information; and wherein the ordered list of links has been arranged into an order being determined responsive to at least the software and the bid amount associated with each of the links of the plurality of links. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 66, 67, 69)
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2. A computer system, comprising:
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memory containing, a plurality of links to respective digital information blocks; wherein each of the links refers to a single one of the digital information blocks; in association with each link, a bid amount; and in association with each link, descriptive information, wherein the descriptive information is directly related to the respective digital information block for that link; and software adapted to cause the computer system to transmit at least a portion of an ordered list of links; wherein the ordered list of links has been arranged into an order, said order being determined responsive to at least the software and the bid amount associated with each of the links of the plurality of links; and wherein the links of the ordered list of links are selected links of the plurality of links for which at least some of the associated descriptive information matches at least some information, of an electronic communication comprising information, received from a source external to the computer system. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68)
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3. A computer system configured by software to execute a method, the computer system comprising:
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memory; wherein the memory of the computer system contains a plurality of digital information blocks; in association with each digital information block, a bid amount; and in association with each digital information block, descriptive information, wherein the descriptive information is directly related to the respective digital information block; and wherein the method comprises; receiving, from a source external to the computer system, an electronic communication comprising information; transmitting a highest ranked digital information block from an ordered list of digital information blocks; wherein the digital information blocks in the ordered list of digital information blocks are selected digital information blocks of the plurality of digital information blocks for which at least some of the associated descriptive information matches at least some of the electronic communication information; and wherein the ordered list of digital information blocks has been arranged into an order being determined responsive to at least the software and the bid amount associated with each of the digital information blocks of the plurality of digital information block.
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