System and method for modifying documents sent over a communications network

• US 7,917,577 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Issued: 03/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Health Hero Network Incorporated (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Health Hero Network Incorporated (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Brown, Stephen J.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, THANH T
• Application Number:
  US11/614,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20070100934A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,559 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/203, 705/2, 715/234
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/04 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying a further explanation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data

Abstract

On-line health education includes displaying composites of personalized health content and patient-selected entertainment. Suitable sources of entertainment include generally available web pages and television programs. Composites are spatial (for page displays) or temporal (for image sequence displays). Health content is customized to health and personal situations of individual patients, and replaces advertisements. Composites are generated on a central server in communication with an entertainment server and a health server. Amenable diseases or behaviors include diabetes, asthma, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, eating disorders, HIV, mental health disorders, smoking, and alcohol and drug abuse.

Claims

1. A system for generating documents, said system comprising:

a server configured to (i) receive current content in one or more documents and personalized content and (ii) compose modified versions of the one or more documents modifying said current content with said personalized content, wherein the personalized content comprises health-related material and is received based upon medical information about a user;

a health content selector configured to present said health-related material based on (i) general health content, (ii) a psychological profile, (iii) a content history, and (iv) a treatment plan;

a general health content database configured to present said general health content based on (i) said psychological profile, (ii) said content history, (iii) said treatment plan and (iv) a health profile; and

a processor unit configured to receive said modified versions of the one or more documents from said server via at least one communication network and display said modified versions of the one or more documents to said user.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an input device configured to present a content request via the at least one communication network, wherein said server receives said current content based upon said content request.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said current content comprises entertainment content.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein said current content comprises hypertext markup language (HTML).

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein said hypertext markup language (HTML) comprises code for one or more types of content selected from the group consisting of home pages of companies, home pages of organizations or information providers, internet directories, sports news pages and stock quotation pages.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said current content comprises markup language.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one communication network comprises a computer network.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one communication network comprises a cable network.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein said health-related material is personalized to said user based on profile data.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein said profile data comprises one or more types of data selected from the group consisting of a medical treatment regimen, a health profile, an educational treatment plan, a psychological profile, educational goals, content history and a patient history.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein said psychological profile comprises one or more types of information selected from the group consisting of (i) information gathered from tests of said user, (ii) information gathered from questionnaires and (iii) information gathered by monitoring usage of the system.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein said information gathered by monitoring usage of the system is gathered by recording subjects corresponding to material clicked on.

13. The system according to claim 10, further comprising an input device configured to receive feedback from said user, wherein said feedback is used to update one or more types of data selected from the group consisting of said health profile, said psychological profile and said content history.

14. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a treatment plan determiner configured to present said treatment plan based on (i) a medical treatment regimen and (ii) a health profile.

15. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a criticality determiner configured to present information for formatting said health-related material based on (i) a treatment regimen and (ii) a health profile.

16. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a television display coupled to said processor unit and configured to display said modified versions of the one or more documents received from the server.