Server, conference room management method of server, and network conference system

• US 9,288,330 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2011
• Issued: 03/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyama, Seiji, Kajimoto, Masato, Yamane, Kenji, Kishima, Koichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Shingles, Kristie
• Assistant Examiner(s): SOWA, TIMOTHY JOHN
• Application Number:
  US13/251,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20120096091A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,625 Days
• Field of Search: 709/205
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• 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: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems

Abstract

A server connected to a client terminal via a network, includes a conference room management unit that manages a conference room for holding a conference, and a medical image holding unit that holds the predetermined number of medical image data including medical image data linked to the conference, wherein the conference room management unit manages one state which is a conference live state and other states which are different from the one state as a conference room state.

Claims

1. A server system connected to a client terminal via a network, the server system comprising:

at least one storage device configured to store medical image data and operation history data, wherein the medical image data and the operation history data are linked to a conference, and

at least one processor configured to manage a conference room for holding the conference, and configured to manage a plurality of states of the conference comprising a conference live state, a conference scheduled state and a conference stored state, wherein the conference scheduled state occurs prior to the conference and the conference stored state occurs after the conference live state,

wherein the server system is configured to allow a person who is scheduled to join the conference to inspect a medical image linked to the conference in advance of a transition to the conference live state,

wherein the at least one storage device is configured to store first comment information and second comment information related to the medical image data, and

wherein access rights to access the first comment information received during the conference is different from the access rights to access the second comment information received prior to the conference.

2. The server system according to claim 1, further comprising an image processing unit configured to perform a process for smoothly displaying a medical image in the client terminal, for the medical image data held in the at least one storage device.

3. The server system according to claim 2, wherein the image processing unit is configured to preferentially perform the process for the medical image data, which is scheduled to be used in the conference.

4. The server system according to claim 3, wherein the at least one storage device comprises a hard disk drive (HDD) and a solid state drive (SSD) as a storage medium, and wherein the image processing unit is configured to copy or move the medical image data, which is scheduled to be used in the conference, from the HDD to the SSD.

5. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one storage device is configured to store mark information, which is selectively given to a predetermined number of the medical image data held in the at least one storage device.

6. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one storage device is configured to hold the operation history data during the conference.

7. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one storage device is configured to hold time markers indicating remarkable points given to the conference on a time axis.

8. The server system according to claim 7, wherein the time markers comprise a first time marker given during the conference and/or a second time marker given during replay of the conference, and wherein the at least one storage device is configured to store and display the first time marker and the second time marker so as to be differentiated from each other.

9. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to resume a closed conference by transitioning a conference room state.

10. The server system according to claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is configured to resume a closed conference by transitioning the conference room state from the conference stored state to the conference scheduled state or to the conference live state.

11. The server system according to claim 9, wherein the at least one storage device is configured to store the operation history data during the conference, the operation history data being obtained by adding first operation history data during a conference of the resumed conference to second operation history data during a conference of the closed conference.

12. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate a confirmation message when medical image data instructed to be deleted is linked to the conference.

13. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one storage device is configured to permit a user with access rights to access the medical image data linked to the conference.

14. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one storage device is configured to receive the second comment information relating to the medical image data prior to the conference.

15. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the first comment information is differentiated from the second comment information.

16. The server system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one storage device is configured to store mark information given to the medical image data, wherein the medical image data is searched based on the mark information.

17. A conference room management method, the method comprising:

in a server connected to a client terminal via a network;

storing medical image data and operation history data, wherein the medical image data and the operation history data are linked to a conference;

managing a plurality of states of a conference room for holding the conference,

wherein the plurality of states comprises conference live state, a conference scheduled state and a conference stored state, wherein the conference scheduled state occurs prior to the conference and the conference stored state occurs after the conference live state;

allowing a person who is scheduled to join the conference to inspect a medical image linked to the conference in advance of a transition to the conference live state; and

storing first comment information and second comment information related to the medical image data,

wherein access rights to access the first comment information received during the conference is different from the access rights to access the second comment information received prior to the conference.

18. A network conference system comprising:

a server system; and

a client terminal that is connected to the server system via at least one network, wherein the server system comprises;

at least one storage device configured to store medical image data and operation history data, wherein the medical image data and the operation history data are linked to a conference, and

at least one processor configured to manage a conference room for holding the conference, and manage a plurality of states of the conference comprising a conference live state, a conference scheduled state and a conference stored state, wherein the conference scheduled state occurs prior to the conference and the conference stored state occurs after the conference live state,

wherein the server system is configured to allow a person who is scheduled to join the conference to inspect a medical image linked to the conference in advance of a transition to the conference live state,

wherein the at least one storage device is configured to store first comment information and second comment information related to the medical image data, and

wherein access rights to access the first comment information received during the conference is different from the access rights to access the second comment information received prior to the conference.