PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16384540
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["705", "003000"]

Abstract:
A method, system, and apparatus to match patients with healthcare providers are described. Patients and healthcare providers are classified into separate profile categories with similar but different information. Patients are presented an index of healthcare providers that best fit their search criteria and healthcare providers are presented an index of patient that best fit their search criteria. The patients and healthcare providers sequentially make an indication of whether they wish to match with each individual presented. When patients and healthcare providers indicate they wish to match with an individual, the individual receives a request. If the individual approves the request, a match is formed. When a patient and healthcare provider match, they are then able to communicate with one another.

Claim (Index 16):
A patient-healthcare provider matching method comprising:\n providing a patient database including patient profile records for a plurality of patients, each patient profile record including patient information provided by a respective patient; providing a healthcare provider database including healthcare provider profile records for a plurality of healthcare providers, each healthcare provider profile record including healthcare provider information provided by a respective healthcare provider; providing a linkage database including records indicative of patient acceptances of healthcare providers, healthcare provider acceptances of patients, and linkages between mutually accepted patients and healthcare providers; and providing for matching between a patient and a healthcare provider by:\n for the patient, comparing, via a processor, the patient profile record to the healthcare provider profile records in the healthcare provider database to determine a healthcare provider index of potential matching healthcare providers, \n creating or accessing, via the processor, a healthcare provider profile card for each of the potential matching healthcare providers, \n determining, via the processor, an order for the healthcare provider profile cards based on a degree of matching with the patient profile record, with healthcare provider profile cards having a higher degree of matching being placed first in the order, \n causing, via the processor, a first ordered healthcare provider profile card to be displayed at a patient terminal of the patient, \n receiving, from the patient terminal, a patient input in relation to the first ordered healthcare provider profile card, \n responsive to the patient input being indicative of a rejection of the healthcare provider profile card, causing, via the processor, a next ordered healthcare provider profile card to be displayed at the patient terminal, \n responsive to the patient input being indicative of an acceptance of the healthcare provider profile card, determining, via the processor, if the healthcare provider has already accepted the patient by accessing the linkage database, \n responsive to the healthcare provider having not accepted the patient, transmitting, via the processor, a message to a healthcare provider terminal of the healthcare provider indicative of a pending request from the patient, and \n responsive to the healthcare provider having already accepted the patient, causing, via the processor, a linkage record to be created indicative of a pairing between the patient and the healthcare provider and enabling the patient and the healthcare provider to communicate with each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16393
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12386144', '11512529', '10159489', '12628876', '13556640']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1130186707872998
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4958669048331258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1513034941918824
- Mean Citation Score: 231.54764
- Max Citation Score: 247.9646
- Similarity Product: 177.60134943645

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test