Adaptive communication methods and systems for facilitating the gathering, distribution and delivery of information related to medical care

US7916014B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Pype Assets B.V., LLC · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey A. Rapaport · Angeles, PH
• Seymour Rapaport · Los Altos, US
• Jeffrey E. Clarke · La Honda, US
• Eric R. Rinehart · Virginia Beach, US
• Michael U. Bergens · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 18, 2008
• Grant date: Mar 29, 2011
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A90/10
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Automated methods and systems are disclosed for persistently facilitating the timely gathering, monitoring, distribution and delivery of information related to medical care where such may include: (1) finding a communications channel for effectively attempting a message delivery to a specific target person at a specified time; (2) adaptively finding a targeted recipient even if the latter is highly mobile and/or has travel patterns or communications-channel preferences that change over time; (3) verifying that a targeted recipient has actually received an attempted delivery within an applicable time limit; (4) automatically recognizing that an urgent message delivery-attempt was not timely completed and adaptively alerting responsible entities of the in completion; and (5) automatically recognizing that an urgent change or non change of condition has occurred by virtue of information gathered during an automated or manually-conducted Interview where physician expected positive progress prior to Interview and adaptively alerting responsible entities of the changed or unchanged condition based on the urgency of the change or non-change.