Systems for receiving and forming marketplaces for working on digital information blocks

• US 20070203813A1
• Filed: 01/05/2007
• Published: 08/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Integrated Claims Systems LLC
• Original Assignee: Integrated Claims Systems LLC
• Inventors: DiRienzo, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 7,870,158 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0611 Request for offers or quotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

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.

Claims

1. A computer-readable storage medium storing a set of computer instructions, comprising:

an input controller that accepts from a remotely connected computer of each of a plurality of first users identification of at least one digital information block and an associated price;

a graphics user interface that displays at remotely connected computers of a plurality of second users a set of indicators, each of which indicators represents one of the digital information blocks and contains information about the associated price;

a server that, in response to selection of one of the indicators by one of the second users, transfers the represented digital information block to the computer of the selecting second user; and

an accounting module that, in response to receiving from the selecting second user information derived from the transferred digital information block, charges the first user the price associated with the transferred block and credits at least a part of that price to the requesting second user.