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Sample Claim 2
2. A method comprising:
a) storing information about a patient’s condition in a plurality of network-based non-transitory storage devices having a collection of medical records stored thereon;
b) providing access, by a content server, to users so that any one of the users can update the information about the patient’s condition in the collection of medical records, and;
c) storing the updated information about the patient’s condition in the collection of medical records in the plurality of network-based non-transitory storage devices.
Example 4 (USPTO Example 21): Transmission of Stock Quote Data
Background
The invention is directed to a stock quote alert subscription service where subscribers receive customizable stock quotes on their local computers from a remote data source. Existing services experienced challenges when attempting to notify a subscriber whose computer was offline (not connected to the Internet) at the time of the alert, since many stock quotes are time sensitive. Further, many previous subscription services simply transmitted all available stock quote information to the user at a given time, which required the subscriber to sort through large amounts of data to identify relevant stock quotes, and often sent information at an inconvenient time (e.g., after the stock exchanges are closed). The stock quote alert subscription service of the present invention addresses these problems.
Note the different treatment of the same invention based on how the invention is claimed.
Sample Claim 1
1. A method of distributing stock quotes over a network to a remote subscriber computer, the method comprising:
receiving stock quotes at a transmission server sent from a data source over the Internet, the transmission server comprising a microprocessor and memory that stores the remote subscriber’s preferences for information format, destination address, specified stock price values, and transmission schedule, wherein the microprocessor
filters the received stock quotes by comparing the received stock quotes to the specified stock price values;
generates a stock quote alert from the filtered stock quotes that contains a stock name, stock price and a universal resource locator (URL), which specifies the location of the data source;
Step
Analysis
Step 1: Statutory Category?
Yes. The claim recites a series of steps and, therefore, is a process.
Step 2A
- Prong 1: Judicial Exception Recited?
Yes. Under the broadest reasonable interpretation, each of the claim limitations can be considered methods of organizing human interactions. Simply reciting the use of a generic storage device and content server is not enough to take the limitation out of the “Methods of Organizing Human Interactions” grouping.
Step 2A— Prong 2: Integrated into a Practical Application?
No. Other than the abstract limitations, the claim recites only two additional elements: the content server and storage devices used to perform the claim steps. But these components are recited at a high level of generality and are merely invoked as tools to perform the limitations. Simply implementing the abstract idea on a generic computer is not a practical application of the abstract idea.
Thus, the claim is directed to an abstract idea in Step 2A.
Step 2B: Inventive Concept?
No. The claim as a whole merely describes how to generally “apply” the concept of updating medical records in a computer environment. Thus, even when viewed as a whole, nothing in the claim adds an inventive concept.
The claim is ineligible.
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