Method and apparatus for producing and accessing composite data

• US 6,253,210 B1
• Filed: 08/25/1999
• Issued: 06/26/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Surgical Navigation Technologies, Inc. (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Surgical Navigation Technologies, Inc. (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Schaewe, Timothy J., Smith, Kurt R., Buchoiz, Richard D.
• Primary Examiner(s): AMSBURY, WAYNE P
• Application Number:
  US09/382,594
• Time in Patent Office: 671 Days
• Field of Search: 707/104, 707/102, 707/6, 707/3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

An apparatus and method for producing composite data by a server computer involves deforming a template creating a mapping relationship between co-registered data and subject data, filtering the co-registered data, and mapping this filtered co-registered data according to the mapping data. A client computer requests the composite data from the server computer and transmits the subject data to the server computer. The client presents the received composite data to an operator and monitors the operators use of the composite data.

Claims

1. A method for automatically presenting an operator with composite data containing co-registered data and subject data, comprising the steps, performed in a client computer, of:

requesting composite data from a server computer;

transmitting said subject data to said server computer;

generating said requested composite data using said subject data;

receiving said requested composite data from said server computer;

presenting said received composite data to an operator; and

monitoring said operator'"'"'s use of said received composite data.