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Artificial intelligence based technologies for improving patient appointment scheduling and inventory management

Grant US12597511B2 Kind: B2 Apr 07, 2026

Assignee

CDW LLC

Inventors

Casey Bleeker, Nathan A. Cartwright

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) based technologies for improving patient appointment scheduling and inventory management are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving, at a server including a natural language processing (NLP) model, an appointment request from a user. The example method further includes initiating, based on the appointment request, a patient appointment data stream including verbal responses from the user regarding an appointment of the user. The example method further includes applying, while simultaneously receiving the patient appointment data stream, the NLP model to the verbal responses from the user to output (i) textual transcriptions and (ii) intent interpretations. The example method further includes querying a scheduling database to determine a matching appointment that satisfies a distance threshold, a date threshold, a service threshold, and an inventory threshold. The example method further includes causing a user device of the user to convey the matching appointment to the user.

CPC Classifications

G16H 40/20 G06F 16/2455 G06F 40/30 G06Q 10/1095 G10L 15/063 G10L 15/1815 G10L 15/22 G10L 15/30 G10L 2015/223 H04M 1/656 H04M 2201/40

Filing Date

2024-08-26

Application No.

18815343

Claims

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