Patent 7957982 was granted and assigned to Olympus Corporation on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Mask information for instructing the prohibition of information which cannot be serviced to the outside, is set and inputted by a manager so that the information, the permission of service of which is indicated by the mask information is exclusively sucked up from an in-hospital server by an external server outside the hospital. A service application created for each service reads out and exploits the information needed by itself, from the in-hospital information sucked up by the external server.