Patents Assigned to WebMD LLC.
  • Patent number: 8380530
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: WEBMD LLC.
    Inventor: Philip Marshall
  • Patent number: 8296162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: WebMD LLC.
    Inventors: Alan Horn, Ann Mond Johnson, Joe Donlan, Tracy Heilman, John Fiacco