Patent ID: 9704208
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G16H

Claim:
1. A healthcare appointment availability information system, including a processor in electronic communication with a plurality of modules stored on a memory and executable by the processor, the modules comprising: an ingestion module configured to locate and retrieve healthcare appointment availability data from a plurality of disparate Internet-accessible sources via web crawlers and application programming interfaces; a transformation module configured to select among overlapping or conflicting ingested availability data for an associated provider retrieved from the disparate Internet-accessible sources and map the selected ingested data to common formatted request parameters to identify a particular available healthcare provider appointment, wherein the selection is made by assigning a priority to each of the disparate Internet-accessible sources of overlapping or conflicting ingested availability data for the associated provider and selecting from among the ingested data based on the assigned priority; a storage module configured to store the ingested or mapped data, and to store user specific account information including user preferences and user access information for accessing one or more of the Internet-accessible sources as the user; a filtering module for filtering the mapped data based on a user search or booking request and on the associated user account information to determine available appointment times that best satisfy the user search or booking request; an interface module for generating an electronic interactive user interface for receiving user search and booking requests for an available provider appointment based on the request parameters and displaying the filtered appointment times based on the user requests; and a booking module for booking on behalf of the user, a user selected particular available healthcare provider appointment with the respective source, utilizing the user access information to access the respective Internet-accessible source as the user.