Patent Application
20130040274
This disclosure relates generally to a field of a modular visual and self learning tool, to be used as an integrated system and a method to explore human physiology, gain insight about a disease condition and treatment options, and interact with other users using the social media. More particularly, it relates to a social media enabled interactive tool that is useful for exploring, investigating, and comprehending the pathophysiology of a disease occurrence, progress and existing treatment options.
Disparate web sites and reading materials are available for an individual to read about a disease, how it progresses and what the various comprehensive treatment options available are. This puts a tremendous burden on an individual, a patient and their family to perform research and get educated about their particular problem for understanding human physiology and particular disease conditions. There is need for an alternate format of informational tool that may be suitable for all ages and across several disciplines and demographics for a particular disease condition.
Several methods, tool and system for informational, integrated and interactive content for a general human physiology, a particular disease condition and treatment options using modular multimedia tools are disclosed. In one embodiment, the modular integrated tool renders informational material for medical, physiological and pathological conditions shown in the virtual human body at system level, organ level, cellular level and molecular level.
In one embodiment, the modular integrated tool uses a processor to display various functions and graphics. In another embodiment, the integrated tool uses a database to store and retrieve information that is being created, accessed, incorporated and viewed. In another embodiment the integrated tool dynamically gathers, updates and presents data for a particular display related to human physiological display for normal, disease and treatment conditions.
In one embodiment, a user can interactively search, communicate, import, visualize, select and annotate the content they view, create, query and store through the user module. In another embodiment, an analytical module comprises of and enables an individual (user, administrator, creator etc.) to administer, create word and/or image module, relevance ranking using relevance module, analysis module, navigation module, filtering module, database module, output module, organization module, query module, output module, rating module and lingual analysis module. The analytical module is modular, scalable and interchangeable and may not be limited to just the referenced modules.
In one embodiment, the system module comprises of search engine module, security module, data integration module, storage module, knowledge module, integration module, display module, statistics module, network module, update module and interactive module.
In one embodiment, the informational tool is generated using modules for graphical illustration, narrations, means for participation and collaboration. In another embodiment, the informational tool may be used as an educational means for a user to learn, explore, educate and interact with other users.
In one embodiment, a user can participate in creating the content, study the content, share the content and interactively use the content. The user may also travel or tour the virtual human body to explore at a physiological system level, organ level, cellular level and molecular level. In another embodiment, the user may interactively observe, change and learn effect of modulation of at least one of micronutrients, drugs, environmental toxins and pathogen levels and their effect on cellular level, organ level and entire human body level. Micronutrients may be, not limited to, vitamins, amino acids, supplements, drugs may be chemotherapy drugs, antibiotics, antihistamines, steroids etc, other pharmaceutical drugs, pathogens may be virus, bacteria, etc. In another embodiment, the user may also select from the prepared content modules to observe a progression of a disease at a molecular level, cellular level, organ level or at a human body system level.
In one embodiment, a developer, an user and a professional (such as scientist, physician but not limited to) and an involved participant such as a parent or a physician or a nurse may connect with each other using the informational tool to clarify, teach and observe the social media interaction and guide the other participants in an educational process of understanding the physiological condition, pathological condition and simple mechanism of physiological functions. The user may be a student, patient and/or an engineer, or any other person with permission who creates the modules.
In one embodiment, in a social media environment or an internet connected environment an advisor or a service provider may be able to advertise for a specific drug, micronutrient or a supplement, food for a particular physiological condition. The user may, for the current instance, be able to get the address, location or directions to the nearest store or place of treatment for a particular good or treatment condition. The current instance example may be the user is reading about effect of micronutrients such as vitamins, micronutrients and their sources and the service provider may display an advertisement on the side where and how to get to a location where the user can find such products.
In one embodiment, the informational tool may display the graphics in a three dimensional view. In another embodiment, the graphics may be rotated, scripts requested and narration switched on and off.
In one embodiment, method to explore a physiological development of the disease or function of the cell during a disease progression or normal conditions is described. In another embodiment, a user can input a search term either in the form of words or an image into the informational tool as a start. In one embodiment, the user specific search term may be used to collect user specific metrics, and/or used for relevance ranking and/or retrieving pertinent data from the web and/or the database. In another embodiment, user approach or behavior based or search strategies or terms used by the user may be used for calculating user approach relevance. In another embodiment, retrieval of pertinent data may be done dynamically, and/or stored data that may be curated and/or expert input from social media, print or web.
In another embodiment, display of results or video or any format of results based on user query may be done using various modules and traditional programs that enable interaction, multidimensional display and movable images. In another embodiment, the user may choose to use the narration in the language of choice, text display with and without narration and visual display of selection if they want to change the selection of topic.
In one embodiment, there is an interrelationship between user input, analysis module and system module. The user and hardware behavior flow is connected using hardware, web and databases.
In another embodiment, the user can understand the different functionality of micronutrients affecting the microenvironment of the cells or pharmaceutical drug and their effects of modulation in the cell by being present as a component of a cell, foreign object, or a cellular organelle.
In one embodiment, a method to explore a virtual human body is described. In another embodiment, a user can enter the human body at a system level and explore the circulatory system for example. In another embodiment, a user can take any form or a robot form and get into the cellular structure and visualize and learn about the various functions of the different components of the cellular system. In another embodiment, the user can understand the different functionality of micronutrients affecting the microenvironment of the cells and their effects of modulation in the cell by being present as a component of a cell, foreign object, or a cellular organelle.
In another method, the user can observe the formation of a disease state such as an atherosclerotic plaque in the walls of an artery or a cancer tumor.
In one embodiment, one may create a virtual human body as a modular multimedia tool for an individual to study, train, teach, learn and investigate using a machine readable media. In another embodiment one may enable the individual to choose a position to enter the virtual human body and travel and investigate through at least one of the cellular level, organ level and/or a system level. The user can connect with a social media tool to at least one other user to interact and travel through the virtual human body to understand the disease progression or study therapeutic intervention for example for educational purposes.
In another embodiment, a method includes creating a content to comply with a local authority rule, embedding the content to a user profile, a user preferred media and/or a user preferred time, and automatically updating the content on a periodic basis based on a local authority rule change, a change in user profile and/or a media change. The method also includes presenting a solution to a user generated query by an author, analyzing an evaluation form submitted by the user in compliance with a local authority rule using a processor and processing the evaluation form for a specific task in response to the local authority rule. In addition, the method also includes recording the evaluation form to perform retrieval, an archival and a reporting, and updating the evaluation form as a record for one or more of the retrieval, the archival and/or the reporting for a local authority such as a public health inspectors, regulatory authorities and/or companies. Further, the method may also include supporting a media device, a mobile device, a computer and/or a communication device, and enabling a local authority to access the record of a user of choice.
In one embodiment, a method may also allow the individual in acquiring data about a disease diagnosed by a physician in detail using the modular informational tool created for the virtual human body, viewing a progression of the disease diagnosed by the physician in detail and learning the implications of a natural progression of the disease, researching the implication of the proposed treatment plan and browsing at least one of a blog, social media group, user group and alternative treatment sites, and deciding on a treatment method plan with the physician. This would provide a decision making ideas for the individual, who may be a patient, relative or advisor. The method, in one embodiment, allows the user to access preventive and treatment methods, implications, and product specification, their availability, and the pharmacies or nearest store or commercial outlet to obtain the products.
In another embodiment, the whole set of modules may be created and run on a hardware such as a server or computer or a mobile device operating system to display use and upload to transform the content.
The methods and systems disclosed herein may be implemented in any means for achieving various aspects, and may be executed in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform any of the operations disclosed herein. Other features will be apparent from the accompanying drawings and from the detailed description that follows.
Example embodiments are illustrated by way of example and not limitation in the figures of the accompanying drawings, in which like references indicate similar elements and in which:
Other features of the present embodiments will be apparent from the accompanying drawings and from the detailed description that follows.
Several method and systems for integrated and interactive modules using modular multimedia informational tools for medical, physiological and pathological conditions for the disease state are disclosed. The embodiments also describe the traditional/conventional treatment methods, current treatment methods and cellular medicine based treatment methods and their disadvantage and advantages are simulated. Although the present embodiments have been described with reference to specific example embodiments, it will be evident that various modifications and changes may be made to these embodiments without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the various embodiments.
Cellular medicine in this disclosure may be described as a term used synonymously for any preventive or therapeutic measure using micronutrients or other natural compounds to affect or modulate physiological or pathological conditions at the cellular, organ or system level (entire human body).
In one embodiment, the disease management module 200 may include a user module 201, analytical module 202, and a server module 203. All three modules are housed in a processor 204 of any device or platform. All three modules and other modules are interdependent and/or independent during operation and/or installation.
The communication module 304 enables the user to communicate with other users, social media sites, network and among their own interest groups and/or other users. Import module 306 allows the user to import text, images, documents, books etc., electronically into their user logged in account. It also enables them to communicate within and outside the informational tool. The visualization module 308 allows the user to view the retrieved information after the user has entered, selected or created the content. The user profile, entered data and the usability data is calculated and pertinent data is displayed using the visualization module. The notation module 312 allows the user to input and annotate the sections of interest to blog or record. The narration module 314 also allows the user to select the text as a display, verbal narration or both for a particular section related to a disease, traditional/conventional treatment or cellular medicine options. The narration module may also suggest to the user the pertinent web sites they can go to for further information, retrieve research articles, invite experts to weigh in, direct the user to the nearest commercial entity that provides the needed goods or services to the user related to the query. The selection module 310 enables the user to navigate between various sections, diseases, views etc. In this entire application traditional and conventional medicine are used interchangeably.
In one embodiment, there may be more than one user at a particular place in the virtual human body interacting or narrating the events or observing the effect of change in the physiological condition, pathological condition or the functioning of the normal human body functions inside a virtual human body. As an example, the effect of micronutrient concentration increase in preventing plaque formation may be observed by the user who is travelling inside the virtual human artery. In another example the effect of a heart attack may be felt by the red blood shaped space ship as crushing effect and a jolt and/or narrowing of the artery. These are examples and the embodiments are not limited to these examples. An individual is a user, teacher, patient, software developer, system manager and not limited to these definitions. The user can zoom into a particular scene or place of interest and interactively see and collaborate with others. The user can invite others in a game like fashion to fight a particular disease with the help of others. They can choose a special format for travel such as a submarine, person or a vehicle.
The administrator module 402 allows the individual who is in charge of the managing the entire integrated system for disease management 100 to set preferences, uploads, security and work flow permissions for users and external participants. The content uploaded or entered by the user is analyzed by the analysis module 404. The user may upload texts, articles, blogs, pictures with captions, pictures, links to videos with or without caption. The analysis module 404 helps analyzing texts by a counting process or building a lexicon in the database. Lexicon building helps in storing the text in a string form with nearest word correlation.
The navigation module 406 allows the user not only to select a particular topic of interest when they enter the informational tool program but also allows them to select preferences. The preferences may be but not limited to language, chapter, topic, narration, web access, blog capability etc. The word and/or image module 408 allows the user to import any type of file to be entered. Once the files are entered the files are either reformatted to suit the informational tool format or API are developed to accommodate any file format and imported into the informational tool software.
The filtering module 412 allows the administrator to set limits to the string selection from the entered texts or images and calculate sub-strings for the same selection to create a lexicon and store it using the database module 414. This way the system is not overloaded and there is no security breach. This may be achieved by using security module 504 as well. The relevance module 410 builds the string and substring for the query entered by the user and stores the behavior pattern of the user using the database module 414. The query module 420 enables the user input to be calculated, entered, ranked, matched using the rating module 422, relevance module 410, word and/or image module 408 and analysis module 404. One may also augment these modules by supporting them with web based thesaurus, dictionary, encyclopedia etc. Lingual analysis module 424 allows the informational tool to have multiple language support system for query, narration and display. It is modular in nature so new languages may be uploaded when new commercial areas are entered. The lingual analysis module 424 may also translate if necessary from English to native languages such as German, French and Spanish (but not limited to just these languages). It may also reverse the translation for display and narration. The lingual analysis module may also help build word family associations and combine articles of similar subjects.
The query entered by the user is used by the search engine module 502 to not only access the database module 520 and the update module 522 to retrieve information using the display module 514 to present it to the user. The data produced by the search engine module 502 is stored in the database module 520 as well to be used by analytical module 202.
The data integration module 506 allows the integrated system for disease management to combine disparate data and enable integration module 512 to format the data for software and hardware entities of the system. The integration module 512 on manages just the data integration from disparate sources.
Statistics module 516 helps the analytical module 202 to perform at its best and optimizes resources and processing capabilities for the data that is being managed by the system module 203. Display module 514 allows the files and formats created by different modules for the user to visualize, interact and share information and files using the interactive module 524. The interactive module 524 also allows the user to communicate with other users, web and blogs. Knowledge module 510 assembles the data produced by the analytical module 202 and in conjunction with update module 522 keeps the data current for the storage module 508, database module 520 and integration module 512 so that analytical module 202 would provide the most relevant and updated data to be presented to the user. This whole system may reside inside a social media web page of an individual as an icon and can be started when one clicks on it. This may also appear as an application for mobile devices or it may be a standalone application or a web based application for the user to access and use.
The computer system view 800 may indicate a personal computer and/or a data processing system (e.g., server) in which one or more operations disclosed herein are performed. The processor 130 may be microprocessor, a state machine, an application specific integrated circuit, a field programmable gate array, etc. The main memory 804 may be a dynamic random access memory and/or a primary memory of a computer system. The static memory 806 may be a hard drive, a flash drive, and/or other memory information associated with the computer system. The bus 834 may be an interconnection between various circuits and/or structures of the computer system. The video display 820 may provide graphical representation of information on the data processing system. The alpha-numeric input device 822 may be a keypad, keyboard and/or any other input device of text (e.g., a special device to aid the physically handicapped). The cursor control device 824 may be a pointing device such as a mouse.
The drive unit 826 may be a hard drive, a storage system, and/or other longer term storage subsystem. The signal generation device 828 may be a bios and/or a functional operating system of the data processing system. The network interface device 808 may be a device that may perform interface functions such as code conversion, protocol conversion and/or buffering required for communication to and from a network (e.g., the network 101 of
In one embodiment, there may be more than one user at a particular place in the virtual human body interacting or narrating the events or observing the effect of change in the physiological condition, pathological condition or the functioning of the normal human body functions inside a virtual human body. As an example, the effect of micronutrient concentration increase in preventing plaque formation may be observed by the user who is travelling inside the virtual human artery. In another example the effect of a heart attack may be felt by the red blood shaped space ship as crushing effect and a jolt and/or narrowing of the artery. These are examples and the embodiments are not limited to these examples. An individual is a user, teacher, patient, software developer, system manager and not limited to these definitions.
In one embodiment, the social media access ability may allow the user to invite and/or allow others to join the user while the user is travelling through the virtual human body. They may role play and learn a particular topic or just be part of a game. An advertisement opportunity may also allow advertisers to mine the trend, suggest retail options for the user to buy a particular drug, exercise place or a health food store or restaurant and guide them using global positioning system to that address. In another embodiment, an advertisement module of the content module to enable a service provider to at least one of to advertise, sell and connect the individual to a location for their need of an item pertaining to a current instance that is happening in the modular multimedia tool. The current instance happening may be something a user is being researching for or playing a game of cause and effect.
The disease management system tool may be modular, scalable and integrated for using at different platforms. Cancer treatment (CT) 900 is a graphical interface presentation of the cancer related session. The upper bar labeled 914 shows the progress of different narrations. The 904 is a graphical representation of a bed of cells that are being attacked by carcinogens. Number 914 shows the progress of the cancer in different stages as the disease progresses from Stage 1 Growth of tumor, Stage 2 Metastasis of tumor, Stage 3 Angiogenesis. A non linear control is implemented by the system such that it enables the user to switch between various disease stages and observe the changes, treatment and cellular medicine treatment and recommendations. Additional information is provided in the text box on the side. This enables different types of communication channels for user to feel comfortable and understand. One may also switch languages depending on the preference of the user in the text boxes and narrations.
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Although the present embodiments have been described with reference to specific example embodiments, it will be evident that various modifications and changes may be made to these embodiments without departing from the broader spirit and scope of the various embodiments. For example, the various devices, modules, analyzers, generators, etc. described herein may be enabled and operated using hardware circuitry (e.g., CMOS based logic circuitry), firmware, software and/or any combination of hardware, firmware, and/or software (e.g., embodied in a machine readable medium). For example, the various electrical structure and methods may be embodied using transistors, logic gates, and electrical circuits (e.g., application specific integrated (ASIC) circuitry and/or in Digital Signal Processor (DSP) circuitry).
In addition, it will be appreciated that the various operations, processes, apparatuses and methods disclosed herein may be embodied in a machine-readable medium and/or a machine accessible medium compatible with a data processing system (e.g., a computer system), and may be performed in any order (e.g., including using means for achieving the various operations). Accordingly, the specification and drawings are to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense.
The instant application is a continuation-in-part of a pending U.S. application Ser. No. 13/209,382, filed on 13, Aug. 2011. The pending U.S. application Ser. No. 13/209,382 is hereby incorporated by reference in its entireties for all of its teachings.
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| Parent | 13209382 | Aug 2011 | US |
| Child | 13525499 | US |
