WIPO ASSIGNS PATENT TO SIEMENS FOR "A MEDICAL IMAGE TRANSFER METHOD AND ITS SYSTEM" (CHINESE INVENTORS)

GENEVA, May 6 -- Publication No. WO/2011/051103 was published on May 05.

Title of the invention: "A MEDICAL IMAGE TRANSFER METHOD AND ITS SYSTEM."

Applicants: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (DE).

Inventors: Ning Liu (CN) and Jie Zheng (CN).

According to the abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization: "The invention provides a medical image transfer method and system, wherein the source Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) side and the determination PACS side are respectively provided with a transfer client end and a transfer server; the transfer client end receives the medical image data from the source PACS according to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard, sets the transfer server address as the destination address of the medical image data, compresses the medical image data, and sends the compressed medical image data to the Internet by way of broken-point continuous transfer when the network status of the Internet is monitored to satisfy the transfer requirements of medical image data; the transfer server receives via the Internet the medical image data, whose destination address is the address of the transfer server, decompresses the medical image data, and sends the decompressed image data by DICOM standard to the destination PACS."

The patent was filed on Oct. 13, 2010 under Application No. PCT/EP2010/065322.

For further information please visit: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?ia=EP2010/065322

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