Patent Application
20050114172
“A network hospital is made as per all individual diseases, on which one can choose corresponding commercial way for combined diet invigorating substances.” Is a commercial method of innovative e-commerce. The most discrepancy and the biggest difference between the patent and the conventional e-commerce is that it innovatively takes technical intelligence of medicine as the crucial technology of commercial method and takes full utilization of the software of network doctor and the software of network hospital to design an integrated plan based on the commercial method of innovative e-commerce to help enterprises to have a large quantity of new customers besides that commodities can be safely bought from the network through the application of e-commerce and process of integration to realize the intelligence of transaction. And it can cater for the requirement of intelligent and individual health service of medicine specialty when electronic transaction is made. It ensures that the transaction by the consumers is safe, the health information and the diagnosis are scientific and precise. Their privacy can be fully protected while they buy commodities on the premise that they fully enjoy health consult free of charge.
According to State Street Bank & Trust Co. V. Signature Financial Group Inc. 149 F.3d, 1368 47 V S. P. O. zd 1596 (Fedcir 1998), it is concluded by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal that generally, commercial method may constitute the subject of patent. The court has shifted the key point of getting qualification of patent into practical application. It acknowledges that the key of the commercial method is to judge whether the invention has only practical and abstract operation or not. The invention must be the practical application in technical field, that is, to obtain useful, concrete and tangible outcome. Because the commercial method of the patent innovates and develops the conventional e-commerce and meets the three characters (useful, concrete and tangible) by Circuit Court of Appeal, it is the innovation of realizable outcome and system.
When the verdict of Dietary Invigorating Substances Law 103-417, 1994 was made, the Congress stressed that the top thing in the States is to improve the health of America people. The importance of nutrition and the benefits from dietary invigorating substances to improve health and prevent from disease have been continuously to be written into scientific and technical documents. When regard to the health and health care, in particular, science study on dietary invigorating substances, it explains to the consumers how they may select health care items. According to the State's statistics, about 50% of 260 m Americans often consume dietary invigorating substances as a way to improve nutrition. The core technology of the patent, that is, the core commodity is innovated and developed based on the stipulations in American Laws.
In 1969, Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Pentagon set up networks for the military purpose, which was gradually developed into Internet. Based on the Internet, the e-commerce network was set up in 1960s and developed in 1990s. Along with the popularization and maturation of maturation of computer application network and credit care, they have provided a solid foundation and key means of the development of e-commerce. The commercial trade activities beyond the Internet did not come into the kingdom of network until 1991. Since then, the e-commerce becomes the hottest issue of the Internet application. It directly faces the consumers through direct network sales, its intelligent mode of transaction is rapidly popularized in the world. In 1998, the number of e-commerce website for business goes up 420,000. Facing with the rapid development of e-commerce, Forrester Company had to adjust its e-commerce turnover to USD 842.7 billions in 2002. Business to customer (B to C) the e-commerce between enterprises and consumers is a direct way for the consumers to participate economic activities via the Internet, which is similar to the retail business of e-commerce coving wide fields enterprises and persons in the world may participate. It has a very good prospect. However, the e-commerce method, which is similar to the e-commerce and the e-commerce of retailers lacks intelligences, in particular, it lacks the intelligences of specialty technology and the innovation and extension to the functions of the Internet. That is just core issue the patent intends to solve.
The most discrepancy and the biggest difference between the patent and the other e-commerce is that it adds health consults software of network doctor and health diagnose software of network hospital. The causes and the state of illness of the patient can be diagnosed via the software of network doctor based on the specific diseases, symptom and individual type. And then it makes scientific and specific suggestions for cure and for health. The suggestions made by the intelligent doctor are the outcome of intelligence analysis for causes and the state of illness and are not the popular science knowledge about medicine. It is a diagnosis process of disease and health through the way one intelligent network doctor diagnoses one consumer (one-to-one). The process of diagnosis can be viewed at the terminal of computer, having the features of 24-hour service and random access. Consumers may enjoy the health service at home provided by intelligent network doctor free of charge. The health consult software of network doctor is upgraded every year to meet the requirement of consumers on high quality and high science and technology. The health diagnosis software of network hospital developed from software of network doctor is data base system for e-commerce system of network hospital. When consumers downloads and uses the health consult software of network doctor and meets their personal health consult service, they may register e-commerce website of network hospital if they intend to have further diagnosis and to prevent from diseases. During the process of remote register of websites, the health information stored in the floppy disk of the network doctor may be automatically connected with the database of health diagnosis software of network hospital and all your health data will be in your health record file of network hospital membership. Therefore, database of network hospital will carry out a comprehensive analysis of your every interrogation in order to give you more scientific and more accurate health conclusion and outcome. Based on the state of illness you provided and the health consults in the past, the database of network hospital can also put forward a prescription of health invigorating substances or composition of new medicine for your viewing, confirmation and purchase. The prescriptions or composition of new medicine given to you only serve yourself and are the outcome of diagnosis of your health. It is prescribed by the intelligent network doctor as per the procedure after the detail analysis of your disease, symptom, type of illness and principle of cure is made. After software of network doctor and software of network hospital are added to the e-commerce system of network hospital, it realizes the innovation of virtual doctor, virtual hospital, virtual enterprise and virtual shop. It is the extension to the Internet and the intelligent transaction of e-commerce system, it also completes and practices the intelligence of medicine specialty technology. The intelligence of medicine specialty technology combined with intelligence of commercial transaction is the innovation and bouncing development to the conventional e-commerce system.
Table 1 Overall view of a network hospital, which is made as per all individual diseases and one can choose corresponding commercial way for combined diet invigorating substances.
Table 2 List of joining network hospital membership and number of membership.
Table 3 Health consult software of network doctor, disease, system, category, principle of cure, suggested structure of number and its dictionary.
Table 4 Numbering structure of health diagnosis software of network hospital (taking Senile cretinism as an example)
Table 5 Corresponding recipe of health invigorating substances for 40 diseases.
Table 6 Corresponding recipe of health invigorating substances for 30 diseases of different category
Cassia Bark
Cassia Bark
Areca Seed
Perilla Seed
Ephedra
Platycodon Root
Cassia Bark
Arisaema with Bile
Cassia Bark
Ephedra
Cassia Twig
Chrysanthemum
Cassia Twig
Chrysanthemum
Cassia Twig
Senna Leaf
1. “A network hospital is made as per all individual diseases, on which one can choose corresponding commercial way for combined diet invigorating substances.” Includes configuration of e-business Website of network hospital, page layout of browser, joining the membership, downloading the health consult software of network doctor to the terminal computer free of charge, upgrading the software free of charge, downloading credit card, remote registration of website, usage of health diagnoses database software of network hospital, confirmation of diseases, confirmation of type of individual cases and principle of cure, glancing over commodities, confirmation of commodities and putting them into shopping vehicle, issuing order of goods, settlement and payment via credit card, transport, usage of commodities and feedback of information. The patent of commercial method also includes: overall view of network hospital, which is made as per all individual diseases and one can choose corresponding commercial way for combined diet invigorating substances (Table 1), health consult software of network doctor, disease, symptom, category, principle of cure, suggested structure of number and its dictionary (Table 3), numbering structure of health diagnosis software of network hospital (Table 4), corresponding recipe of health invigorating substances for 40 diseases (Table 5) and corresponding recipe of health invigorating substances for 30 diseases of different category (Table 6).
2. The patent is used in the application frame of e-commerce, taking the intelligent medicine specialty technology as the structure unit of main system. In the patent, the basic network configuration is utilized to provide a platform for the e-commerce and intelligent medicine specialty technology, one can downloads and uses a large quantity of health consult software of network doctor free of charge to make services without limit of geographic region, to realize direct transaction and to fully develop the market potential of direct e-commerce. In addition, one also can utilizes the database software of network hospital to complete indirect e-commerce with the help of external delivery and transport after the transaction of goods via e-commerce is accomplished. The intelligent integration is realized of e-commerce application program. In the course of solution via e-commerce, e-commerce, coordination, intelligence of business, management of knowledge and intelligent specialty technology are integrated into one to realize the purchase mode of User to online and the integrated mode of application program. It realizes the innovation of commercial method to combine indirect e-commerce with direct e-commerce.
3. Characterized by the excellent combination of the intelligent specialty technology of American medicine with the intelligent commercial transaction, the patent provides the services of mail, community, upgrading and downloading of software free of charge, linking up network, listing, safety, printing, database, configuration and transactions for medicine specialty technology health consult software of intelligent network doctor, health diagnosis software of network hospital and the intelligent transaction of e-commerce through the application programs of Internet, server, router and browser.
4. Except for the server software development of conventional e-commerce application program and supporting the application program logics of e-commerce, the patent takes intelligent network doctor software of medicine specialty technology and the software of network hospital as core function. One can use them without limit, download them free of charge and continuously upgrade health consult software of network doctor, which are the means to increase the market share. Customers can download the software of network doctor via the application program in customer frame of Internet's browser into the database of his or her terminal computer or into the memory of server and use them as you like.
5. The following is as example to carry out commercial deal in the patent: Entering the website and opening homepage. Glancing over page layout, signing agreement, joining the membership to get the number of membership. Entering the number of membership to download the health software of network doctor into your terminal computer. Entering website and number of membership to remotely register website. Confirmation of disease A2 on the menu and confirmation of A2 commodity. Opening the homepage of disease, symptom, category and principle of cure. Click A2 Click b2, c2 and k2 l2. Glancing over B3, B14 and conformation of B3 and B14 commodities. Putting A2, B3 and B14 commodities into shopping vehicle. Delivering order, settlement and payment. Receipt of commodities, usage of them and feedback of information.
