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Microsoft patents system to compress and link different types of health data

This filing describes a computer method for shrinking large sets of medical information to save storage space. It also converts different data formats into a standard structure so that separate records can be easily linked together.

Why it mattersThis could help hospitals or health apps manage massive amounts of patient records more efficiently by keeping files smaller and organized.

In the filing’s own words

A method, computer program product, and computing system for compressing first modality data in a first processing datastore by: compressing the first modality data into a first delta table of a first schema, and storing the first delta table of the first schema in the first processing datastore. The first modality data is transformed into normalized first modality data by: transforming the first delta table of the first schema into a first delta table of a second schema, and storing the second delta table of the second schema in a second processing datastore. The second modality data is compressed in the first processing datastore. The second modality data is transformed into normalized second modality data. The normalized first modality data is associated with the normalized second modality data in the second processing datastore.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computer-implemented method, executed on a computing device, comprising: compressing first modality data in a first processing datastore by: compressing the first modality data into a first delta table of a first schema, and storing the first delta table of the first schema in the first processing datastore; transforming the first modality data into normalized first modality data by: transforming the first delta table of the first schema into a first delta table of a second schema, and storing the first delta table of the second schema in a second processing datastore; compressing second modality data in the first processing datastore by: extracting a metadata tag from the second modality data into a second delta table of the first schema, and storing the second delta table of the first schema in the first processing datastore; transforming the second modality data into normalized second modality data by: transforming the second delta table of the first schema into a second delta table of the second schema, and storing the second delta table of the second schema in the second processing datastore; and associating the normalized first modality data with the normalized second modality data in the second processing datastore.

Facts

Company
Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
Official title
System and Method for Multimodal Healthcare Data Compression, Storage, and Harmonization
Publication number
US20260269028A1
Application number
19075122
Filed
Mar 10, 2025
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Inventors
12
Claims
20

Classified under

G16H 10/60 Physics & computingG06F 16/212 Physics & computingG06F 16/2282 Physics & computingG06F 16/258 Physics & computingG16H 30/20 Physics & computing
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