Patent application EP17185060A (EP), filed 2017-08-07
Publication number: EP3232355A2
Title: DISPLAY OF PRELOADED PREDICTED DATA
Abstract: In order to reduce a time between a user at a first computing device requesting display of a rendered volume, stored datasets or rendered volumes are preloaded at the first computing device or a second computing device in communication with the first computing device. A processor predicts which datasets are to be displayed and preloads at least one of the predicted datasets based on user-selected cases within a worklist, explicit selection by the user, or an automatic prediction by the second computing device.
IPC codes: G06F  19/    00            A I
G16H  10/    60            A I
G06F  16/    51            A I
G06F  16/    58            A I
G16H  30/    20            A I
G16H  30/    40            A I
G16H  40/    67            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: A method of preloading data based on which an image is to be displayed, the method comprising:
number: 2
text: The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one image dataset stored in the memory is at least one dataset of a plurality of datasets stored in the memory.
number: 3
text: The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of image datasets are image datasets representing volumes of one or more patients.
number: 4
text: The method of claim 2, wherein the data identifying the image is first data, and
wherein predicting the at least one image to be displayed comprises:
number: 5
text: The method of claim 4, wherein the received second data comprises a list identifying an order of image datasets to be displayed.
number: 6
text: The method of claim 5, wherein retrieving the at least one image dataset comprises retrieving a first image dataset from the plurality of image datasets stored in the memory, the first image dataset being first in the order of the list, the generated image being a first image generated based on the first image dataset, and
wherein the method further comprises retrieving a second image dataset from the plurality of image datasets stored in the memory after the first image is transmitted to the geographically remote computing device or displayed, the second image dataset being second in the order of the list.
number: 7
text: The method of claim 6, further comprising:
number: 8
text: The method of claim 4, wherein the received second data comprises a plurality of requests from the geographically remote computing device, the plurality of requests identifying a number of image datasets of the plurality of image datasets stored in the memory.
number: 9
text: The method of claim 8, wherein retrieving the at least one image dataset comprises retrieving at least some image datasets of the image datasets identified by the plurality of requests from the memory.
number: 10
text: The method of claim 1, wherein predicting the at least one image dataset comprises automatically identifying, by the processor, the at least one image dataset to be displayed.
number: 11
text: A system for preloading data to be displayed, the system comprising:
number: 12
text: The system of claim 11, wherein the memory or another memory is configured to store the one or more retrieved datasets, and
wherein less than all storage capacity of the memory or the other memory is allocated for storage of retrieved datasets.
Office action: search_report, dated 2017-10-18
Rejection reasons: inventive_step_epc_56
Prior art cited: ref_id: US9042617
ref_type: patent
severity: obviousness
ref_id: - VIANA-FERREIRA CARLOS ET AL, "Pattern recognition for cache management in distributed medical imaging environments", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERY, SPRINGER, DE, vol. 11, no. 2, doi:10.1007/S11548-015-1272-4, ISSN 1861-6410, (20150805), pages 327 - 336, (20150805), XP035942063 [Y] 1-12 * page  328, column  1, line  4  - page  330, column  1, line  15; figures 1, 2 *
ref_type: npl
severity: obviousness
Final disposition: pending (2017-10-18)