Patent ID: 8550344
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: G06Q,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: means for accessing at least one of an inventory, an advertisement, or other source indication of available stents; means for automatically obtaining data output of one or more parameters of one or more medical devices that reveal a stent inventory shortage, the means for automatically obtaining data output utilizing direct availability information or one or more indirect indications designating an order as an emergency status or other parameter indicating an elevated priority; and means for configuring one or more stents with a flow occlusion portion in response to the one or more automatically obtained parameters indicating the existence of the stent inventory shortage, the one or more stents including at least one of a structurally equivalent flow occlusion stent, or a functionally-equivalent-but-structurally-distinct flow occlusion stent resembling a stent model approved by a regulation administration.