Patent ID: 7213016
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for storing and retrieving advance directives with a database coupled to a communications system, comprising the steps of: on the initiative of a service provider, registering and storing information about the service provider on the database in anticipation of further creation of advance directives that will come into at least the temporary possession of the service provider; storing on the database information supplied by the service provider about a person and the person's advance directive; automatically transmitting upon request by the service provider information about one or more advance directives that were stored in the database by the service provider; and processing a request for automatic transmission of information about a specific advance directive made by a requester other than the service provider that supplied information about that specific advance directive by determining if the requester has been previously recorded in the database as being a qualified member of one of a plurality of predefined common networks previously recorded on the database, and if so recorded (a) granting the request if the requester and the service provider cohabit a common one of the common networks that includes the requester and the service provider, and (b) denying the request if the requester and the service provider do not cohabit a common one of the common networks that includes the requester and the service provider, notwithstanding that the requester has been previously recorded in the database as a qualified member of another one of the predefined common networks.