Patent ID: 11972865
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 6, wherein said analyzing said answers to said diagnosis questions comprises:
establishing a threshold value to be assigned to said selected ranked disease data from said third ranked list;
establishing a weight for each answer of said diagnosis questions, whereby a positive response to one of said diagnosis questions will be assigned a first weight and a negative response to one of said diagnosis questions will be assigned a second weight;
adding up all of said weights assigned to said answers of said diagnosis questions to obtain a total sum;
comparing said threshold value assigned to said selected ranked disease data from said third ranked list to said total sum of all of said weights;
generating a diagnosis confirmation signal, wherein said diagnosis confirmation signal is positive only if said total sum equals or exceeds said threshold value assigned to said selected ranked disease data from said third ranked list; and
said diagnosis confirmation signal is negative only if said total sum is lower than said threshold value assigned to said selected ranked disease data from said third ranked list.