Patents Assigned to WEBMD
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Publication number: 20150025911Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a communication network allowing a user transmit confidential or sensitive information to a recipient through a third party, while ensuring that privacy is maintained. A user can access a mobile application to request a third party to send information to a recipient. Following the user request, a built-in procedure of the mobile application may automatically institute a consent process between the third party and the desired recipient, without requiring any further action on the part of the requesting user. A coded message may be delivered to the intended recipient, including a selectable link directing them to a consent procedure within the third party communication network service. Completion of the consent procedure creates an association between the requesting user and the intended recipient within a relationship database, allowing confidential information to be exchanged between the user and recipient, through the third party communication service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: WEBMD, LLCInventors: Nick Altebrando, Krishna Bhagavathula, Michael Morello, David Ziegler, Michael Glick
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Method and system for enabling lay users to obtain relevant, personalized health related information
Patent number: 8888697Abstract: The invention features methods, systems, and computer programs for generating a customized set of possible medical conditions, thereby providing access to medical information relevant to the user's state of health. The methods and systems involve at least some of the following steps: receiving a list of symptoms specified in terms selected from a first language set; translating the list of symptoms into a translated list of symptoms specified in terms selected from a second language set; using the translated list of symptoms to generate possible medical conditions, the possible medical conditions described in terms of the second language set; and translating the possible medical conditions into descriptions that are specified in terms selected from the first language set.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: WebMD, LLCInventors: Brad Bowman, Tushar Tanna, David Link, David Gang -
Publication number: 20140229559Abstract: Data about a plurality of events is stored in an event database, including information for selecting who should be invited to the event. Data about a plurality of members is stored in a member database, preferably including members' preference criteria specifying the type of events in which each member likes to participate. The member information is matched against the invitee selection criteria and the event information is matched against the member preferences criteria to determine which members should be invited to each event. Based on results of this match process, e-mail invitations to the selected events are sent to the members.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: WEBMD, LLCInventors: Sundeep BHAN, Jeff FENIGSTEIN, John ALFANO
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Publication number: 20140222455Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method that can comprise, for a predetermined user, automatically determining a score for each resource from a plurality of predetermined resources based on the user's weighting of predetermined factors associated with the resources and an objective score for each factor for each resource, ranking the scored resources, and/or providing an identity of a best matched resource for the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: WEBMD, LLCInventors: Alan HORN, Ann Mond JOHNSON, Joseph DONLAN, Tracy HEILMAN, John FIACCO
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Patent number: 8775197Abstract: Personalization of access to health or benefit-related information on a computer network is provided based upon a health history of a user. In one implementation, personal health or benefit-related information about the user is obtaining from the user operating a client computer. The health or benefit-related information includes one or more health or benefit-related terms that each corresponds to a health or benefit-related concept. The health related terms provided by the user are correlated with a health terminology thesaurus that is stored on a computer-readable medium, such as at a server remote from the user client. Each of the health or benefit-related terms is associated with a health or benefit-related concept, which has one or more health or benefit-related works associated therewith. The works associated with health or benefit-related concepts are then made accessible over a computer network to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2005Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: WebMD, LLCInventors: Philip Marshall, Brad Bowman
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Patent number: 8756077Abstract: A method for processing a personal health record (PHR) which includes a plurality of events each having a time stamp. The method includes creating a plurality of event-concept pairs by mapping each of the plurality of events in the PHR to a corresponding health concept, assigning to each of the plurality of event-concept pairs the time stamp of the event corresponding to the event-concept pair, identifying associations among the plurality of event-concept pairs, identifying an associative subset of event-concept pairs among the plurality of event-concept pairs, and linking a plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs to form a thread, in which the thread presents a relationship among the plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: WebMD, LLCInventor: Philip Marshall
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Patent number: 8712792Abstract: Personalization of access to health-related information on a computer network is provided based upon a health history of a user. In one implementation, personal health-related information about the user is obtaining from the user operating a client computer. The health-related information includes one or more health-related terms that each corresponds to a health-related concept. The health related terms provided by the user are correlated with a health terminology thesaurus that is stored on a computer-readable medium, such as at a server remote from the user client. Each of the health-related terms is associated with a single concept unique identifier that uniquely identifies a corresponding health-related concept. Health-related works or content is made accessible over the computer network by correlating the concept unique identifiers for the user's health information with corresponding concept unique identifiers that are associated with the health-related content.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2003Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: WebMD, LLCInventors: Bradley R Bowman, Philip D. Marshall
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Publication number: 20140108052Abstract: Personalization of access to health-related information on a computer network is provided based upon a health history of a user. In one implementation, personal health-related information about the user is obtaining from the user operating a client computer. The health-related information includes one or more health-related terms that each corresponds to a health-related concept. The health related terms provided by the user are correlated with a health terminology thesaurus that is stored on a computer-readable medium, such as at a server remote from the user client. Each of the health-related terms is associated with a single concept unique identifier that uniquely identifies a corresponding health-related concept. Health-related works or content is made accessible over the computer network by correlating the concept unique identifiers for the user's health information with corresponding concept unique identifiers that are associated with the health-related content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: WebMD, LLCInventors: Philip D. MARSHALL, Bradley R. BOWMAN, Michael J. ROZEN
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Patent number: 8694336Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method that can comprise, for a predetermined user, automatically determining a score for each resource from a plurality of predetermined resources based on the user's weighting of predetermined factors associated with the resources and an objective score for each factor for each resource, ranking the scored resources, and/or providing an identity of a best matched resource for the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: WebMD, LLCInventors: Alan Horn, Ann Mond Johnson, Joseph Donlan, Tracy Heilman, John Fiacco
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Patent number: 8655672Abstract: Data about a plurality of events is stored in an event database, including information for selecting who should be invited to the event. Data about a plurality of members is stored in a member database, preferably including members' preference criteria specifying the type of events in which each member likes to participate. The member information is matched against the invitee selection criteria and the event information is matched against the member preference criteria to determine which members should be invited to each event. Based on results of this matching process, e-mail invitations to the selected events are sent to the members.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2003Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: WebMD, LLCInventors: Sundeep Bhan, Jeff Fenigstein, John Alfano
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Patent number: 8612245Abstract: Personalization of access to health-related information on a computer network is provided based upon a health history of a user. In one implementation, personal health-related information about the user is obtaining from the user operating a client computer. The health-related information includes one or more health-related terms that each corresponds to a health-related concept. The health related terms provided by the user are correlated with a health terminology thesaurus that is stored on a computer-readable medium, such as at a server remote from the user client. Each of the health-related terms is associated with a single concept unique identifier that uniquely identifies a corresponding health-related concept. Health-related works or content is made accessible over the computer network by correlating the concept unique identifiers for the user's health information with corresponding concept unique identifiers that are associated with the health-related content.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2003Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: WebMD LLCInventors: Philip D. Marshall, Bradley R Bowman, Michael J. Rozen
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Patent number: 8521559Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method that can comprise, for a predetermined user, automatically determining a score for each resource from a plurality of predetermined resources based on the user's weighting of predetermined factors associated with the resources and an objective score for each factor for each resource, ranking the scored resources, and/or providing an identity of a best matched resource for the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: WebMD LLCInventors: Alan Horn, Ann Mond Johnson, Joseph Donlan, Tracy Heilman, John Fiacco
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Publication number: 20130159020Abstract: A method for processing a personal health record (PHR) which includes a plurality of events each having a time stamp. The method includes creating a plurality of event-concept pairs by mapping each of the plurality of events in the PHR to a corresponding health concept, assigning to each of the plurality of event-concept pairs the time stamp of the event corresponding to the event-concept pair, identifying associations among the plurality of event-concept pairs, identifying an associative subset of event-concept pairs among the plurality of event-concept pairs, and linking a plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs to form a thread, in which the thread presents a relationship among the plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: WEBMD LLCInventor: WEBMD LLC
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Patent number: 8380530Abstract: A method for processing a personal health record (PHR) which includes a plurality of events each having a time stamp. The method includes creating a plurality of event-concept pairs by mapping each of the plurality of events in the PHR to a corresponding health concept, assigning to each of the plurality of event-concept pairs the time stamp of the event corresponding to the event-concept pair, identifying associations among the plurality of event-concept pairs, identifying an associative subset of event-concept pairs among the plurality of event-concept pairs, and linking a plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs to form a thread, in which the thread presents a relationship among the plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: WEBMD LLC.Inventor: Philip Marshall
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Patent number: 8296162Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method that can comprise, for a predetermined user, automatically determining a score for each resource from a plurality of predetermined resources based on the user's weighting of predetermined factors associated with the resources and an objective score for each factor for each resource, ranking the scored resources, and/or providing an identity of a best matched resource for the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2006Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: WebMD LLC.Inventors: Alan Horn, Ann Mond Johnson, Joe Donlan, Tracy Heilman, John Fiacco
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Patent number: 7877492Abstract: A system and method for delegating a user authentication process for a networked application to an authentication proxy. A networked application may request a user to provide authentication information in order to access the application. Upon receiving this authentication information from the user, the client side of the networked application sends the information to the server side of the networked application. The server side of the application may then determine an appropriate authentication agent associated with the user to delegate the authentication process to. For example, for each application user, the server side of the application may maintain information associated with the user, such as the user's employer. The application may then match this employer information to an authentication agent running in the employer's network domain, and the authentication process may then be delegated to this authentication agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: WebMD CorporationInventors: Rajeev Chawla, Marco Framba, Venky Talla, Tom Speeter
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Patent number: 7725331Abstract: Separate computer systems may participate in a Health Data Network (HDN) such that the computer systems are linked so as to share various types of healthcare-related information. The shared information may include patient record information. The integration of the patient record information is accomplished by maintaining a Global Master Patient Index (GMPI). Such a GMPI may integrate patient record information used by multiple healthcare organizations, facilities, or businesses. Such a GMPI may also integrate patient record information for a single business having multiple sites or computer systems, e.g., a large hospital.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2003Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: WebMD CorporationInventors: Kurt B. Schurenberg, Robert C. Yeager, Robin D. Johnson
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Patent number: 7519905Abstract: A system and method for automatically performing validation and/or formatting procedures for a graphical user interface (GUI) described in a markup language file. The GUI markup language description may comprise descriptions of various types of GUI elements for which text is to be validated/formatted, such as form fields, tables, hypertext links, etc. The markup language file may include various custom markup language attributes in order to automatically validate/format text for a GUI element. Validation/formatting procedures for GUI elements may thus be based on custom markup language attributes and are managed by a manager that is automatically instantiated when the application parses the markup language file. This manager interfaces to receive programmatic events that trigger various types of formatting/validating operations to be performed on the GUI elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: WebMD Corp.Inventors: Panagiotis Kougiouris, Chip Bering, Rajesh Tiwari
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Publication number: 20090094060Abstract: A method and system for healthcare decisionmaking wherein a consumer begins with a diagnosis, is educated on the interpretation of relevant data relating thereto, assess risk, selects and prioritizes search criteria, reviews treatment option results and compares the results based on their preference, or by using statistically valid data derived from consumers like themselves. The method and system presents a structured framework for communicating information that has been personalized and customized to an individual who is a consumer of information about healthcare. The system is a networked, knowledge-based system that assists the consumer in assessing healthcare treatment options for a variety of healthcare conditions, procedures and clinical diagnoses.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: WEBMDInventors: Ann Mond JOHNSON, Tracy J. HEILMAN, Joseph DONLAN, John FIACCO
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Publication number: 20080215367Abstract: A method for processing a personal health record (PHR) which includes a plurality of events each having a time stamp. The method includes creating a plurality of event-concept pairs by mapping each of the plurality of events in the PHR to a corresponding health concept, assigning to each of the plurality of event-concept pairs the time stamp of the event corresponding to the event-concept pair, identifying associations among the plurality of event-concept pairs, identifying an associative subset of event-concept pairs among the plurality of event-concept pairs, and linking a plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs to form a thread, in which the thread presents a relationship among the plurality of members of the associative subset of event-concept pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: WEBMD HEALTHInventor: Philip MARSHALL