Patent Issued for Systems and methods for implementing secure database requests in a role-based application environment (USPTO 11620302): TeleTracking Technologies Inc.

2023 APR 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx journalists report that a patent by the inventors Bhurani, Deepak (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Cheng, Carol (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Mitra, Twesha (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Morrow, Raghen (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Poling, Kenneth (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Sangars, Bhavya (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Slater, Jamie (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Tomer, Anjali (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Wuslich, Mark (Pittsburgh, PA, US), filed on March 22, 2021, was published online on April 4, 2023.

The patent’s assignee for patent number 11620302 is TeleTracking Technologies Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States).

News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The use of smartphones, tablets, and other user devices is increasing within the medical field. However, information in the medical field is subject to numerous privacy requirements, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in the United States, the Privacy Directive in the European Union, etc. Accordingly, pulling data about patients from databases must be performed in a secure manner in order to comply with such requirements.

“In addition, varying members of a health organization may need to see different portions of data about patients and facilities such as operational data (e.g. bed data), aggregated data. Dashboards and physical displays may be used to manage and display operational data and aggregated data such as physician schedules and facility capacity metrics but may not be implemented at a mobile level. This may be on account of the needs of the roles of that member (e.g. executive data needs are different from nursing and doctor data needs) but may also be on account of privacy requirements (e.g., executives not permitted to see confidential patient-specific information). The lack of mobility and aggregation of the patient data and facility data causes delays in patient care and sub-optimal facility management.”

As a supplement to the background information on this patent, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “In view of the foregoing, embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for implementing secure database requests in a role-based application environment. The provided systems and methods may provide real-time visibility into patient and facility data. The provided systems may use geofencing, single sign-on (SSO), and/or other global security mechanism to provide a secure and private pull of patient data from one or more databases. Accordingly, the channel provided herein may be compliant with privacy laws and regulations as well as providing assurance to a patient that personal information is not being exposed.

“In addition, the provided systems and methods may alter in functionality based on a role of the user. For example, the provided systems and methods allow for data requests to be automatically selected based on user input and on the role, and graphical user interfaces generated by the provided systems and methods may be based on the data requested and on the role. Accordingly, the display of the information may be customized to the needs of the role that the user occupies as well as preventing information from being pulled that may violate privacy laws and regulations.

“In one embodiment, the present disclosure describes a system for implementing secure database requests in a role-based application. The system may comprise at least one memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may comprise instructions to receive, from a user device, a request to access data from a relational database; based on the request, extract the data from the relational database; perform one or more join commands on the data to generate an object in an object-oriented programming language having the joined data; convert the object to a data serialized format configured for use in a graphical user interface generator; and transmit the data serialized format to the user device.

“In another embodiment, the present disclosure describes a method for implementing secure database requests in a role-based application. The method may be executed by one or more processors. The method may comprise receiving, from a user device, a request to access data from a relational database; based on the request, extracting the data from the relational database; performing one or more join commands on the data to generate an object in an object-oriented programming language having the joined data; converting the object to a data serialized format configured for use in a graphical user interface generator; and transmitting the data serialized format to the user device.

“In some embodiments, the present disclose describes non-transitory, computer-readable media for causing one or more processors to execute methods consistent with the present disclosure.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A method for fulfilling secure database requests from a role-based application, the method comprising: receiving, at a server and from a user device, a request to access data associated with a health facility from a non-relational database comprising patient-specific data and bed-specific data, wherein the request comprises a pull; extracting, at the server, the data from the database based upon the request, wherein the extracting comprises directly extracting the data in a serialized format based upon the pull, wherein the extracting comprises encrypting a portion of the data in the serialized format corresponding to the patient-specific data and wherein the bed-specific data remains unencrypted; and generating a graphical user interface for a user from the extracted data, wherein information displayed in the graphical user interface is customized from the data based upon a role of the user, wherein the information comprises statistics of the health facility and corresponding to the role of the user, wherein the graphical user interface displays different statistics for different user roles.

“2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information displayed comprises at least one warning indicating that at least one statistic included in the information has exceeded a threshold.

“3. The method of claim 1, comprising transmitting a notification to the user responsive to determining a threshold set by the user and based upon the role of the user has been reached.

“4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is encrypted and wherein the information for display is encrypted to the user device.

“5. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is generated automatically based upon user navigation within an application on the user device.

“6. A device for fulfilling secure database requests from a role-based application, the device comprising: a server comprising a processor and memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor; and a non-relational database operatively coupled to the server and comprising patient-specific data and bed-specific data; the instructions comprising instructions that: receive, at the server and from a user device, a request to access data associated with a health facility from the database, wherein the request comprises a pull; extract, at the server, the data from the database based upon the request, wherein the extracting comprises directly extracting the data in a serialized format based upon the pull, wherein the extracting comprises encrypting a portion of the data in the serialized format corresponding to the patient-specific data and wherein the bed-specific data remains unencrypted; and generate a graphical user interface for a user from the extracted data, wherein information displayed in the graphical user interface is customized from the data based upon a role of the user, wherein the information comprises statistics of the health facility and corresponding to the role of the user, wherein the graphical user interface displays different statistics for different user roles.

“7. The device of claim 6, wherein the information displayed comprises at least one warning indicating that at least one statistic included in the information has exceeded a threshold.

“8. The device of claim 6, comprising transmitting a notification to the user responsive to determining a threshold set by the user and based upon the role of the user has been reached.

“9. The device of claim 6, wherein the data is encrypted and wherein the information for display is encrypted to the user device.

“10. The device of claim 6, wherein the request is generated automatically based upon user navigation within an application on the user device.

“11. A product for fulfilling secure database requests from a role-based application, the product comprising: a storage device that stores code, the code being executable by a processor and comprising: code that receives, at a server and from a user device, a request to access data associated with a health facility from a non-relational database comprising patient-specific data and bed-specific data, wherein the request comprises a pull; code that extracts, at the server, the data from the database based upon the request, wherein the extracting comprises directly extracting the data in a serialized format based upon the pull, wherein the extracting comprises encrypting a portion of the data in the serialized format corresponding to the patient-specific data and wherein the bed-specific data remains unencrypted; and code that generates a graphical user interface for a user from the extracted data, wherein information displayed in the graphical user interface is customized from the data based upon a role of the user, wherein the information comprises statistics of the health facility and corresponding to the role of the user, wherein the graphical user interface displays different statistics for different user roles.”

For additional information on this patent, see: Bhurani, Deepak. Systems and methods for implementing secure database requests in a role-based application environment. U.S. Patent Number 11620302, filed March 22, 2021, and published online on April 4, 2023. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(11620302)&db=USPAT&type=ids

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