Patents by Inventor Hurbert Van Hoof

Hurbert Van Hoof 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).

  • Get prep questions to ask doctor
    Patent number: 7908151
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: 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, Hurbert Van Hoof, Oren Rosenbloom