Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090193394 | Subsystem architecture for providing support services for software applications - A subsystem architecture is described that provides support services for software applications of a system. The subsystem architecture includes local infrastructure components, which provide infrastructure services to the software applications. Each local infrastructure component corresponds to a single software application and is independent from another of the local infrastructure components. The subsystem architecture may further include a central service component providing central services to at least one of the local infrastructure components. The central service component is independent and unaware of the local infrastructure components. Still further, the subsystem architecture may include an administrative component for monitoring and maintaining the local infrastructure components providing infrastructure services to the software applications. The administrative component is independent and unaware of the plurality of local infrastructure components. | 07-30-2009 |
20090248440 | Ensuring referential integrity of medical image data - A method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed for providing information concerning scheduled procedure steps and/or information concerning performed procedure steps within a taskflow which includes a plurality of tasks for processing medical image data. Each taskflow is associated with a taskflow specific context folder. In at least one embodiment, a publisher task is adapted to select selected data out of the medical image data. For these selected data, meta-information is updated by incorporating additional information concerning scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. This is done by maintaining referential integrity between image data, scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. | 10-01-2009 |
20100057915 | Method and system for distributing applications - In a data processing network there exist at least two applications which are different from one another in terms of the volumes of data that are to be processed. In at least one embodiment, each application has a multilayer structure and individual layers of the applications are distributed over different hardware resources, specifically at least one local data processing unit and at least one remote data processing unit, in such a way that the number of layers installed on the local data processing unit as a proportion of the total number of layers making up the respective application is less in the case of that application which is provided for processing the greater volume of data than in the case of the application which is provided for processing the smaller volume of data. | 03-04-2010 |
20100122252 | Scalable system and method thereof - A scalable system and method thereof may improve scalability and Quality of Service. The scalable system may include a first scalability adapter (scaldapter) configured to manage resource consumption of at least one component based on measured data received from the at least one component, where the component is configured to run an application, and a scalability manager (scalator) configured to modify strategies of the first scaldapter for managing the resource consumption based on measured data received from a plurality of processes, each of the plurality of processes including the first scaldapter. | 05-13-2010 |
20100174580 | METHOD FOR INTERDEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION OF SOFTWARE-ASSISTED ACTIVITY, IN PARTICULAR IN A HOSPITAL - In a hospital, a virtual team can be formed on an interdepartmental basis, with individual roles of treating physicians being defined based on a scheme appropriate to a treatment situation and specific physicians being allocated to the roles such that just-in-time planning of a patient's treatment can be carried out. In at least one embodiment, the sequential execution of tasks appropriate to the individual departments is monitored by a central data processing device. | 07-08-2010 |
20100175071 | PROGRAM CODE COMPRISING A NUMBER OF PROGRAM CODE PACKAGE GROUPS STORED ON STORAGE UNITS - A software platform is provided for a hospital for example, wherein software modules (program code packages) are assigned in groups to different levels. In at least one embodiment, the presence of software interfaces allows software modules of different levels to be stored and run on different computer units with a data processing facility and storage unit, thus allowing communication between different levels by way of a data line. In at least one embodiment, this allows tasks to be moved out of the hospital, thereby saving costs. | 07-08-2010 |
20100179826 | Method of providing tailor-made software for hospital departments - To provide tailor-made software for use in a specific department of a hospital, a software package suitable for use by more than one department of the hospital is provided including components implementing general tasks. Then, software is added implementing tasks which may be considered to extend the general tasks. This extension can be tailor-made for the specific department. In at least one embodiment, the software package includes both front end and back end software components, front end components reacting to user inputs and calling up back end software components, and the extension may be both at the front end and at the back end side. | 07-15-2010 |
20100208959 | METHOD FOR MANAGING AND/OR PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - A method for managing and/or processing medical image data is disclosed, in particular for controlling a medical workflow. Furthermore, a computer system and a computer program product having a computer program product code for implementing the method are disclosed. One embodiment is directed to a method for managing and/or processing medical image data including inputting medical image data generated by one or several modalities, the image data including the description data according to a predefined structure; assigning the image data to a template as a function of the classification thereof, with the template specifying the respective processing of image data in one or several processing steps and being used for the classification preferably of lists of classification criteria; and extracting the classification criteria at least partially from the description data. | 08-19-2010 |
20100211613 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A COMPUTER WITH DATA MANAGEMENT - A storage area can be accessed by a computer. Files are stored in the storage area, in which application-related files are stored. Each of the files stored in the storage area is alternatively stored as protected or unprotected file. In at least one embodiment, as a function of commands, which are prespecified by a user to the computer within the scope of running an application, the protected files and/or the unprotected files are read out of the storage area by the computer. Furthermore, in at least one embodiment, as a function of commands which are prespecified by the user to the computer within the scope of running the application, the unprotected files stored in the storage area are changed, deleted and/or converted into protected files and/or new files are determined on the basis of files stored in the storage area and are stored as unprotected files in the storage area. Irrespective of the command prespecified by the user to the computer within the scope of running the application, the computer does not cause the files stored in the storage area to be changed, deleted or converted into unprotected files. | 08-19-2010 |
20100223617 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING AND/OR PROVIDING COMPUTER-AIDED TASKS FOR MEDICAL TASK FLOWS - A method and a computer system are disclosed for designing and/or providing computer-aided tasks for medical task flows. In at least one embodiment, the method includes providing one or more tasks of at least one task flow, which can exchange data with one or a number of other tasks, in so far as they comply with at least one requirement for exchanging data; providing task flow management, which manages requirements in respect of a task and grants a task access for a task flow according to at least one of the requirements; providing at least one task container, which is made available as host for a task, in so far as the task complies with at least one requirement for access to the host; and providing at least one domain platform, which is used to convert the functionality and logic of at least one task, in so far as the task complies with at least one requirement in respect of the conversion. | 09-02-2010 |
20100228769 | METHODS AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENABLING DATA RECORDS TO BE LOCATED - In large medical facilities such as hospitals or group practices run by physicians individual patients are often examined and treated by a number of specialists in succession. In view of this it is important, in spite of great differences in the workflows of the individual medical facilities, to coordinate the work of said specialists by way of an operator control device having a uniform user interface. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, methods and a program product for enabling data records to be located are provided for that purpose. By way of the methods and/or the program product, in at least one embodiment a basic page and at least one content page are provided, wherein by use of the basic page at least one display field for presenting information extracted from a data record can be generated on a screen display and wherein by use of the content page, information extracted from a data record can be displayed in a display field. | 09-09-2010 |
20100229118 | METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PRODUCING MEDICAL FINDINGS ON THE BASIS OF MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - In order to produce a set of medical findings based on image data which has been obtained by way of different imaging methods, a plurality of image viewer programs has hitherto been required. In at least one embodiment, a viewer device is to be provided, with which different image data can be viewed and with which it is simultaneously possible to produce a set of medical findings. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided wherein a base page and at least one content page with display elements are selected and are loaded and activated by a program. | 09-09-2010 |
20100229153 | Providing a number of web services for imaging optional medical applications - A system and a computer-implemented method are disclosed, as well as a computer readable medium, for providing a number of web services for at least one medical viewing application, so as to provide the application with application-exceeding basic functionalities with regard to a transfer management service, a data management service, a workflow management service, a report management service, a protocol management service, an operating management service and an enterprise application integration management service. A web service of at least one embodiment, in that case, includes at least one remote service component, at least one business object and at least one service component. | 09-09-2010 |
20100241443 | Sequential control and execution of medical applications at different workstations - A process, a system and a computer program product and computer readable medium are disclosed for the sequential control and execution of a medical task. In at least one embodiment, the task is processed with the aid of a plurality of different, computer-implemented, medical-technical, stateful applications. In at least one embodiment, the invention uses a 3-layer software architecture including a data layer, a business logic layer, and presentation layer. With the aid of a central server, the option is provided of a one-time loading of the extensive datasets for a task and the applications for a task, so that the datasets and the applications are subsequently preserved for a user of the medical task. As a result, multiple waiting periods for the user are avoided. | 09-23-2010 |
20100293548 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICAL APPLICATIONS EXECUTING IN PARALLEL - A method and a computer system are disclosed for administration of medical applications running in parallel. At least one embodiment of the method includes creation of a number of application components as a result a beginning of a number of user actions; provision of a module for parallel execution and/or for coordination of the previously created application components, provision of a least one communication interface for exchanging messages and/or data between an application component and a command which is of interest to the application component which has been initiated by one of the user actions, and removal of the application component created by a user action after the user action has ended. | 11-18-2010 |
20110029623 | TASKFLOW UNIT FOR CONTROLLING COMPUTER-AIDED MEDICAL TASKS WITHIN A MEDICAL COMPUTER NETWORK - A taskflow unit is disclosed including at least one of a device and module for controlling computer-aided medical tasks within a medical computer network. In at least one embodiment, tasks are assigned to different software units, wherein the tasks are merged to form at least one taskflow within the medical computer network. In at least one embodiment, the taskflow unit is installed on an application server within the computer network. | 02-03-2011 |
20110078693 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE WAITING TIME WHEN WORK STEPS ARE EXECUTED FOR THE FIRST TIME - A method and a medical computer system for executing the method are disclosed for reducing the waiting time for at least one user of the computer system when they first execute at least one work step in the computer system. The method includes pre-starting a process which is not yet assigned to a user, and loading the services into the process, which the applications initiated by a user to execute the at least one work step are very likely to call without the user already being assigned to the process. | 03-31-2011 |
20110138392 | OPERATING METHOD FOR A COMPUTER WITH PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION BY GROUPING APPLICATIONS - In at least one embodiment, if the pre-start level has the value empty container, the computer creates a container within the framework of the pre-start but does not load any application into the container. If the pre-start level has the value application, the computer creates a respective container within the framework of the pre-start for each application. If the pre-start level has a higher value, the computer determines within the framework of the pre-start a degree of grouping for the applications assigned to the respective pre-started unit, and groups the applications in accordance with the degree of grouping determined into at least one container group. Within the framework of the processing of the complex tasks, the computer terminates on switching from one application to another application, the application still being executed only if the application involves an application not able to be suspended. | 06-09-2011 |
20110153345 | Method for operating a hospital information system - A method of operating a hospital information system, and a hospital information system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes providing a taskflow editing tool with a limited number of editing options to a user; creating a taskflow defining a number of tasks and connections of the tasks by the user using the taskflow editing tool; and performing an automated test run of the created taskflow, wherein the automated test run is checked according to a number of criteria and wherein results of the check are reported to the user. | 06-23-2011 |
20110154355 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR THE ELECTRONIC PREPROCESSING OF DIGITAL MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - A method and a system, for resource allocation provided for implementation of the method, are specified for the electronic preprocessing of digital medical image data. In at least one embodiment, provision is subsequently made to classify a plurality of preprocessing jobs, in particular by way of a classifier module, to determine whether they were generated interactively by a user request or automatically. Each preprocessing job is placed in a queue in accordance with the classification, in particular by way of an execution coordination module of the system. Data processing resources for job execution are assigned to each preprocessing job taking account of the classification, in particular by way of a resource allocation module of the system, with interactive preprocessing jobs being handled with higher priority than automatic preprocessing orders. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161953 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM - A method for operating a hospital information system, including a plurality of computer machines interconnected in a network, is provided that keeps data and configurations globally consistent during installation, upgrade or update of the system or its subsystems, and ensures the ability of the distributed subsystems to cooperate on a single machine as well as between several machines without the need to execute the software manipulations on all machines at the same time. To this end, at least one embodiment of the method includes providing a installing module on one of the computer machines; extracting the software data from the installing module and writing the software data to a hard disk of the one computer machine; providing a set of software manipulation operations; choosing a number of software manipulation operations from the set based on the software data extracted from the installing module and executing the number of software manipulation operations on the one computer machine. | 06-30-2011 |
20110184750 | HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM - A hospital information system including a number of distributed workstations for processing of medical data shall allow a coordinated, predictable and simulatable size-up/size-down of its systems allowing a determination of the technical and monetary consequences. To this end, in at least one embodiment, the hospital information system includes a central server unit, the workstations and the central server unit connected to each other via a data connection, wherein the central server unit includes a plurality of data interfaces, each data interface customized to provide a direct connection to one of the number of workstations, and wherein the central server unit further includes a data transfer module, an image and info nation processing module and a workflow management module. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191301 | SYSTEM FOR ARCHIVING COMPOSITE FILES AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A SYSTEM - A system for archiving composite files including metadata and payload data in a file system. In at least one embodiment, the system includes a database for storing, in particular exclusively, a first group of metadata of the archived composite files, corresponding to search criteria usable in a query; at least one information layer in the file system for storing a second group of metadata of the archived composite files in storage files, the second group in particular including the metadata of the first group and/or all metadata; and the archived composite files stored in the file system. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196694 | Method And Arrangement For Producing Medical Reports - A method and an associated arrangement are disclosed for producing medical reports. The method is embodied in a medical data management system. in t least one embodiment, provision is made here for storing cross-reference data which cross-refers to object data that is obtained by way of various medical applications. The cross-reference data is used when producing medical reports, in order to include the associated object data, which is identified by the cross-reference data, in the report. in at least one embodiment, this results in an advantageous time saving when producing a medical report which can be considerable, particularly in the context of complex series of examinations involving various medical applications. | 08-11-2011 |
20110209139 | APPLICATION PLATFORM - An application platform is disclosed in a medical environment with a number of computer systems providing an information technology infrastructure and a plurality of basic information technology services to a number of users in the medical environment. At least one embodiment of the application platform provides a particularly simple and coordinated upgrade and update by independent software manufacturers and further provides a particularly high operational fail-safety during updates and upgrades by preventing damage to the systems caused by third party installer programs. To this end, at least one embodiment of the application platform includes a plurality of platform versioning building blocks and a number of platform data repositories, wherein the plurality of platform versioning building blocks are mutually independently updateable. | 08-25-2011 |
20110231832 | Application Platform And Method For Operating A Data Processing Arrangement Having Such An Application Platform - An application platform is disclosed together with a method for operating a data processing arrangement on which the application platform is implemented along with at least one application which is executable on the application platform by accessing at least one programming interface of the application platform. In at least one embodiment, in the course of a change of version of the application platform or of a part of the platform, a check is carried out by way of an update module to determine whether a newly-to-be-installed more recent version of the application platform or of the part of the platform is consistent with the existing older version of the application platform or of the part of the platform in terms of the interface specification and/or the behavior of the or each programming interface. If necessary, the update module overwrites the older version with the more recent version. Otherwise the update module installs the more recent version or at least its programming interface in parallel with the existing version or its programming interface. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231865 | Application Platform And Method For Operating A Data Processing Arrangement Having Such An Application Platform - An application platform is disclosed. Also disclosed in a method for operating a data processing arrangement on which the application platform is implemented as well as a plurality of applications which are executable on the application platform by accessing at least one programming interface of the application platform. At the same time, a plurality of operating system processes running in parallel on the application platform are generated as a result of the execution of at least two applications. In at least one embodiment for this purpose, the application platform includes a process connection module. The process connection module generates an inter-process user interface by which the parallel-running operating system processes collectively interact with a user of the data processing arrangement. | 09-22-2011 |
20120215838 | OPTIMIZATION OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION IMPLEMENTED ON A CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM - In at least one embodiment, data relating to the usage and the operating status of a frontend module of a software application implemented on the client side is acquired continuously during the execution of the application by way of a monitoring frontend module implemented on the client side of a client/server system. This acquired usage and status data is transmitted by the monitoring frontend module to a monitoring backend module implemented on the server side. The usage and status data is stored by the monitoring backend module in a database on the server side. The usage and status data stored in the database is automatically analyzed by way of an analysis module. In the process, default settings of the software application are automatically modified by way of the analysis module on the basis of the result of the analysis in order to improve the performance of the application. | 08-23-2012 |
20120239734 | Operation Of A Data Processing Network Having A Plurality Of Geographically Spaced-Apart Data Centers - A method and a device are disclosed for operating a data processing network which includes a plurality of geographically spaced-apart data centers and a large number of client computers, data being transmittable between each of the client computers and at least to one of the data centers, wherein one or more virtual servers is operateable in each of the data centers. According to at least one embodiment, access data is collected including information on geographical location of the client, geographical location of the virtual servers and the degree of utilization of the virtual servers. The access data collected is analyzed and, using the result of analysis, a migration plan, which is improved with respect to the mean latency, is created for the deployment of the virtual servers among the data centers. The virtual servers are migrated between the data centers in accordance with the migration plan. | 09-20-2012 |
20130028492 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE PROGRESSIVE LOADING OF MEDICAL, MULTIDIMENSIONAL IMAGES INTO A MEDICAL APPLICATION - A method includes a) loading a first number n of image sets with an image size k | 01-31-2013 |
20130074053 | INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICE ARCHITECTURE FOR APPLICATIONS - A mechanism is disclosed for operating local version-independent service program code for infrastructure services, wherein the mechanism is automatically and optionally linked to a central, remote service infrastructure, and wherein both an online and an offline processing mode is included and automatically supported, and wherein the mechanism is embedded in a generic runtime environment. In at least one embodiment, it contains service program code implemented in the runtime environment for calling by way of the application program code with standardized interfaces, wherein the service program code is intended for the provision of functionalities for predetermined services that an application program code can use. | 03-21-2013 |
20130205031 | Method, Computer Readable Medium And System For Scaling Medical Applications In A Public Cloud Data Center - A method for providing scaled applications in a cloud data center is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from a user to use one of a plurality of applications maintained in a memory of a cloud data center. The method further includes assigning one of a plurality of instantiations of a service manager to the user and establishing, using the assigned instantiation of the service manager, a connection between the user and an instance of the requested application for a duration of a user session. | 08-08-2013 |
20130266242 | METHOD FOR LOADING MEDICAL IMAGE DATA AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - In order to enable improved or even optimized loading of medical image data, a data type representing the image data is determined in at least one embodiment from the image data in a first step and a data-type-specific default loading strategy is selected according to the data type. The default loading strategy may be refined, in at least one example embodiment, to produce a loading strategy based on additional context data. The context data is obtained for example during an initial assessment of the image data. For this purpose, provision is made in particular for a shared index to be generated in which the context data is stored together with further information associated with the image data of a plurality of objects that are to be examined. | 10-10-2013 |
20140250171 | OPTIMIZATION OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION IMPLEMENTED ON A CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM - In at least one embodiment, data relating to the usage and the operating status of a frontend module of a software application implemented on the client side is acquired continuously during the execution of the application by way of a monitoring frontend module implemented on the client side of a client/server system. This acquired usage and status data is transmitted by the monitoring frontend module to a monitoring backend module implemented on the server side. The usage and status data is stored by the monitoring backend module in a database on the server side. The usage and status data stored in the database is automatically analyzed by way of an analysis module. In the process, default settings of the software application are automatically modified by way of the analysis module on the basis of the result of the analysis in order to improve the performance of the application. | 09-04-2014 |
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