Appeal No. 2004-2044
Application No. 09/476,708
performed by the system, such as for transmitting protocols in
accordance with subscriptions and so forth.
Claim 59 is representative of the claimed invention and is
reproduced as follows:
59. A method for providing operational protocols to medical
diagnostic systems, the method comprising the steps of:
storing a protocol on a machine readable medium, the
protocol including at least one operation parameter for a medical
diagnostic system;
displaying user viewable indicia descriptive of the protocol
at a medical diagnostic location, wherein the user viewable
indicia include an exemplary image obtainable via the protocol;
performing a protocol exchange transaction including
selecting the protocol via a user interface and loading the
protocol at the medical diagnostic location from the machine
readable medium via a network connection to the medical
diagnostic location; and
storing an accounting record of the transaction.
References
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(Grate)
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(Clarke)
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