Patents by Inventor Chris Demetrios Karkanias

Chris Demetrios Karkanias has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20100235178
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting an indication of at least one health-related status of an individual; determining at least one health service option for the individual based on the indication of at least one health-related status; and providing a matching system for procurement of a desired health service option.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Shawn P. Firminger, Jason Garms, Roderick A. Hyde, Edward K.Y. Jung, Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Eric C. Leuthardt, Royce A. Levien, Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, JR., Clarence T. Tegreene, Kristin M. Tolle, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20100169108
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates aggregating data with a distributed network for health-related diagnosis. A device can include a sensor for dynamic collection of data, wherein the portion of data is wirelessly communicated from the device to a distributed network. An evaluator can generate a health informative update based at least in part upon an analysis of the dynamically collected data received via the distributed network, wherein the evaluator analyzes a medical condition with a condition-indicative level of the portion of data collected via the sensor. The health informative update can be at least one of a personal update providing information pertaining to an individual-based medical condition or a geographic-based population update providing information related to a medical condition that affects a pre-defined number of individuals within the geographic-based population.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Neil A. Jordan
  • Publication number: 20100167801
    Abstract: The claimed matter provides systems and/or techniques that regulate and/or prescribe an individual's behavior while playing electronic games. The system includes mechanisms and/or modalities that identify physical and/or mental activities similar to those undertaken by a game character and that are appropriate to the fitness or mental capabilities of the individual. It requests the individual to perform the activities selected during the execution of the electronic game, monitors the individual's performance of the activity, and reproduces and associates the individual's actions in performing the selected task to the game character during execution of the electronic game. Further, it enhances or diminishes attributes of the game character based on the intensity of the individual's performance of the selected activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Kim Cameron, Vladimir Sadovsky, Hong Choing, Mary P. Czerwinski
  • Publication number: 20100113983
    Abstract: Provided are systems and/or methods that treat illnesses and conditions using ultrasound tuned to a resonant frequency of a target material with the assistance of computer processing. The ultrasound tuned to the resonance frequency of a target material destroys the target material without harming healthy material that surrounds the target material. A resonance frequency database can be employed to ensure that local healthy material surrounding a target has a natural resonance frequency dissimilar enough from the tuned resonance frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: David E. Heckerman, Simon John Mercer, Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Eric J. Horvitz
  • Publication number: 20090326981
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates collecting a portion of health data from a collection of users. An interface component can receive health data communicated from a collection of users, wherein each user within the collection is associated with a respective portion of health data. A verification component can authenticate at least one of a transmission source of the portion of health data, an ownership between a portion of health data and a user, an integrity level associated with the portion of health data, or a user submitting the portion of health data. A collection component can aggregate authenticated health data into a semantic data store in which the health data is indicative of a raw and unmolested source of health information from the collection of users. The collection component can further organize the health data to facilitate identification of a medical related trend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Eric J. Horvitz
  • Publication number: 20090325212
    Abstract: Provided are systems and/or methods that facilitate sensing, detecting, logging, or treatment of a condition or need of a living body using a genetically engineered organism and a data standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Sonia Patricia Carlson, Simon John Mercer
  • Publication number: 20090309891
    Abstract: An avatar generator for a virtual environment reflects a physiological characteristic of the user, injecting a degree of reality into the capabilities or appearance. Thereby, many of the incentives of the real world are replicated in a virtual environment. Physiological data that reflect a degree of health of the real person can be linked to rewards of capabilities of a gaming avatar, an amount of time budgeted to play, or a visible indication. Thereby, people are encouraged to exercise. Physiological data that reflect the health and perhaps also mood also improve social interaction in virtual environments. People seeking to meet and become acquainted with particular types of people are not thwarted by the artificiality of avatars. The physiological data can be gleaned from a third party health data collection repository, a healthcare smart card, a real-time physiological sensor (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, blood glucose, peak flow, pedometer, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Hubert Van Hoof, Kenneth D. Ray, Alexander G. Gounares, Eric J. Horvitz, Hong L. Choing
  • Publication number: 20090313235
    Abstract: A social network service provides trusted, timely and managed communications between a querying individual and an informed individual by optimizing distribution of queries to reflect a requisite amount of expertise necessary (i.e., interest, background, education, demographic attribute, etc.). Those candidate recipients with a rare level of expertise or specialization can specify a desired level of participation, which is respected. In order not to exhaust their availability, those who are less qualified or part of a larger demographic category appropriate for the query are selected to handle queries of lesser difficulty or less specialization. Anonymity if desired by the recipient party can be supported by increasing the pool of candidate recipients so that the querying party cannot reasonably ascertain who is responding. Timeliness of response, as well as satisfaction in the response, is tracked in order to affect redirection of a query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander G. Gounares, Eric J. Horvitz, Kenneth D. Ray, Oren Rosenbloom, Hubert Van Hoof, Chris Demetrios Karkanias
  • Publication number: 20090313270
    Abstract: A semantic frame store system including a semantic frame store configured to provide representation of data items in a semantic frame schema having a plurality of tables. The semantic frame store system and semantic frame store are configured to enable a conceptual structure of the data items to be changed without requiring alteration to the semantic frame schema.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Aust, Chris Demetrios Karkanias
  • Publication number: 20090311655
    Abstract: A system for generating surgical procedure training media draws upon the realistic data of an actual surgical procedure for realistic training without the risks. A 3D capturing component records three-dimensional model plus imaging data over time of a portion of a patient's body undergoing a surgical procedure. A spatial detection system detects an orientation of a surgical instrument relative to the patient's body during the surgical procedure. A modeling component creates a four-dimensional model (3D model+time) of the portion of the patient's body. Animation such as contingent events, trainee prompts, a virtual surgical instrument, etc., can be added to the model to expand upon the training potential. A user interface processes and edits training media for playback of the four-dimensional model including defining triggers responsive to a trainee simulated surgical inputs to pace sequencing of playback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Michael J. Sinclair, James R. Hamilton, Oren Rosenbloom, Hubert Van Hoof
  • Publication number: 20090262988
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that create virtual images that predict the physical appearance of an individual. The system can include mechanisms that develop a virtual image based on a health record, input received from sensors or images supplied by the individual. The system thereafter progressively modifies and displays the virtual image to reflect characteristics associated with the images supplied by the individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios KARKANIAS, Hong CHOING, Mary P. CZERWINSKI, Hubert VAN HOOF
  • Publication number: 20090259488
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that identify healthcare professionals appropriate to treat diseases. The system can include mechanisms that employ patient symptoms, diagnoses associated with the symptoms, proposed treatment plans, or treatment outcomes based on proposed treatment plans, to construct and utilize dependency graphs to infer a score. The inferred score can then be employed to identify qualified healthcare professionals appropriate to treat the disease as presented by the patient and indicated by the symptoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gounares, Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Kim Cameron, Hong Choing
  • Publication number: 20090254466
    Abstract: A healthcare smart card management system stores a large amount of healthcare information to overcome shortcomings of separate and largely paper medical and insurance files. Embedded security technology supports partial or separated identity proofing as well as hardware time limited storage. Dynamic contextual privacy consent enhances user, healthcare provider, and insurer privacy and proprietary information to encourage and enable universal adoption. Data is structured in self-executing (“print to device”) for legacy systems as well as in rolled-access format and archival format to balance usage and data integrity purposes. A plurality of network interfaces are incorporated as well as financial transaction codes. Card integrity is enhanced by remote usage oversight, self-destruct monitoring (e.g., time, location, hacking, malfunction, etc.), and integral write-only audit logs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Hubert Van Hoof, Oren Rosenbloom, James R. Hamilton, Pablo Argon, Vladimir Sadovsky, Behrooz Chitsaz, Sean Patrick Nolan
  • Publication number: 20090198733
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates identifying a medical facility for an emergency medical situation. An interface can receive a portion of data related to an emergency medical incident and a corresponding location. A match component can evaluate the portion of data to select a medical facility in which to transport a patient involved in the emergency medical incident, wherein the medical facility can be ascertained based on a distance between the location of the emergency medical incident and a location for the selected medical facility and traffic related to a route there between.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Gounares, Steven Bathiche, Kim Cameron, Oren Rosenbloom, Eric J. Horvitz, Kenneth D. Ray, Hong L. Choing, Hubert Van Hoof, Chris Demetrios Karkanias
  • Publication number: 20090164236
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates scheduling an incoming patient appointment for a medical facility. A medical facility can provide healthcare to a patient, wherein the medical facility can utilize a schedule with an available time slot to assign an appointment to a patient. A match component can evaluate a portion of transportation data to select a patient to which an appointment on the schedule is allotted. A dynamic schedule component can automatically adjust the schedule based upon the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gounares, Steven Bathiche, Kim Cameron, Oren Rosenbloom, Eric J. Horvitz, Kenneth D. Ray, Hong L. Choing, Hubert Van Hoof, Chris Demetrios Karkanias
  • Publication number: 20090088726
    Abstract: Provided are systems and/or methods that facilitate sensing, detecting, or treatment of a condition or need of a living body using a genetically engineered symbiotic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric J. Horvitz, Steven Bathiche, David E. Heckerman, Chris Demetrios Karkanias
  • Publication number: 20090089082
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates dynamically providing a question to ask a medical professional during an appointment. An interface can receive a portion of medical data. A counselor component can generate a question based on the portion of medical data, wherein the question is generated to elicit an answer from a medical professional during an appointment. Moreover, the counselor component can dynamically generate a second question directed toward the medical professional based upon at least one of the answer or a value of information (VOI) computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: David E. Heckerman, Pablo Argon, Behrooz Chitsaz, Hong L. Choing, James R. Hamilton, Nuria M. Oliver, Vladimir G. Sadovsky, Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Hubert Van Hoof, Oren Rosenbloom
  • Publication number: 20080299951
    Abstract: A wireless opportunistic network that can facilitate resource aggregation by way of interconnected devices is disclosed. In accordance with this opportunistic network, a mobile device can effectively ‘dock’ into the network thereby enabling resources to be shared between devices within the network. In this manner, the docked mobile device can leverage resources available in each of the individual devices of the network. This functionality can be used in many scenarios related to heath from, monitoring patients and analyzing basic diagnostic data to identifying bioterrorism by way of collaborating resources between devices within the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Stephen Edward Hodges
  • Publication number: 20080300109
    Abstract: A system that facilitates activity management and tracking with respect to an individual is disclosed. The innovation employs the notion of establishing a strategy to compress activity information into an identifying indicia (e.g., two-dimensional barcode) that can be processed (e.g., scanned) by a wide array of devices (e.g., mobile phone, personal data assistant). The innovation discloses a system that facilitates the ability to plan, monitor and log activity of an individual. The planning phase enables a user or third party (e.g., health-care professional) to proactively define an exercise or activity regimen for a user. The monitoring phase enables real-time fitness and/or activity tracking of an individual. Finally, the logging phase enables a user to log the information into a fitness log that can be subsequently used in health or fitness-related assessment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Stephen Edward Hodges
  • Publication number: 20080296380
    Abstract: A system that facilitates tracking of nutritional intake by an individual is disclosed. The innovation employs the notion of establishing a strategy to compress nutritional information into an identifying indicia (e.g., two-dimensional barcode) that can be processed (e.g., scanned) by a wide array of devices (e.g., mobile phone, personal data assistant). In operation, the ability to inject this information into a health strategies system enhances the usability while minimizing the effort needed to capture information into the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Stephen Edward Hodges