Patent ID: 11967404
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
determining, via a processing system, a medical condition of an individual based at least in part on a personal identifier associated with the individual, the medical condition further being determined by performing natural language processing of medical information associated with the individual, wherein the medical information is retrieved from a medical database, wherein the personal identifier associated with the individual is determined from a form of electronic payment associated with the individual, wherein the personal identifier is pre-registered with the processing system, and wherein the personal identifier is linked to the medical information stored on the medical database;
determining, via the processing system, a restriction associated with the medical condition of the individual, wherein the restriction is one of a plurality of restrictions associated with the individual, wherein the individual ranks the plurality of restrictions according to a severity of at least one of the plurality of restrictions, wherein the plurality of restrictions is retrieved from the medical database, and wherein the plurality of restrictions are linked to the medical information stored on the medical database;
determining, via the processing system, characteristics of a plurality of items based on an identification of the plurality of items scanned by a scanning system and item features retrieved from an item database, wherein the item features are linked to the medical information stored on the medical database;
comparing, via the processing system, the characteristics of the plurality of items to the restriction associated with the medical condition of the individual; and
responsive to determining that at least one of the characteristics of the plurality of items violates the restriction associated with the medical condition of the individual, declining, via the processing system, electronic payments associated with the individual, for an item of the plurality of items that includes the at least one of the characteristics of the plurality of items that violates the restriction.