Patent ID: 8639779

Claim:
An over-the-Interact-based remote viewing and manipulation system for use with an ophthalmic OCT machine to permit remote viewing and manipulation of the output of said OCT machine on a remote computer, comprising: an Internet-enabled software engine on a global server, said Internet-enabled software engine instantiating and duplicating the functions of said OCT machine to permit OCT analytic processing including image processing, registration, segmentation, normative analysis, thickness maps, and 3D volume processing, said software engine adapted to be coupled by the internet to the output of said OCT machine utilizing an internet connection scheme to collect, store, retrieve and permit viewing and manipulation of the output of said OCT machine; and a remotely connected viewing and manipulation device coupled by the Internet to said global server and said Internet-enabled OCT machine instantiating software engine for accessing the collected and stored information at said global server in a retrieving step to permit the viewing of the results of an OCT exam from said OCT machine and for manipulating the data that is collected and stored at said global server to enable said OCT analytic processing.