Set-top box for monitoring telehealth sensors

• US 10,178,953 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2016
• Issued: 01/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ji, Lusheng, Miller, II, Robert R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Edun, Muhammad N
• Assistant Examiner(s): MURPHY, JEROLD B
• Application Number:
  US15/254,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20160367140A1
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/112 Gait analysis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4833 Assessment of subject's compliance to treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6804 Garments; Clothes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7232 involving compression of the physiological signal, e.g. to extend the signal recording period
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An architecture relating to a set-top box for monitoring telehealth and biometric sensors. A subject patient is associated with telehealth and biometric sensors which measure the subject patient'"'"'s vital signs and other health related attributes. In one aspect, the system includes a set-top box for continuously gathering biometric and telehealth sensor data. The set-top box includes a sensor interface for interfacing with the sensors and supports wireless and wired connections to the sensors. The system additionally may include a system management station for providing feedback to the subject patient.

Claims

1. A set top box device, comprising:

a communication device that connects to a data network device of network devices of a network and receives, via the data network device, a signal comprising multimedia data;

a decoding device that decodes the multimedia data and provides a decoded signal to a display device;

a sensor interface device, coupled to the communication device, that interfaces with a sensor device that determines biometric data;

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

determining identity data representative of an identity associated with the biometric data;

in response to monitoring the biometric data, determining that the biometric data exhibits a defined attribute; and

storing the biometric data conditionally in response to a condition being determined to be satisfied, wherein the condition being determined to be satisfied comprises the network devices of the network being determined to exhibit a network outage condition.

2. The set top box device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise generating summary data representative of a summary of at least a portion of the biometric data.

3. The set top box device of claim 2, wherein the defined attribute is a first defined attribute and wherein the operations further comprise, in response to monitoring the summary data, determining that the summary data exhibits a second defined attribute.

4. The set top box device of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise storing the summary data conditionally in response to the condition being determined to be satisfied.

5. The set top box device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise instructing the communication device to transmit the biometric data to a server device of the network in response to the determining that the biometric data exhibits the defined attribute.

6. The set top box device of claim 5, wherein the biometric data is transmitted further in response to determining that the network devices do not exhibit the network outage condition.

7. The set top box device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise performing a calibration process that calibrates an accuracy setting of the sensor device.

8. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a set top box, facilitate performance of operations, comprising, comprising:

receiving, from a network device of network devices of a network, a signal comprising multimedia data;

decoding the multimedia data thereby generating decoded data;

transmitting the decoded data to a display device;

receiving biometric data from a sensor device that determines the biometric data;

determining identity data representing an identity associated with the biometric data;

in response to analyzing the biometric data, determining that the biometric data satisfies a first defined condition; and

storing the biometric data conditionally based on a second defined condition being satisfied, wherein the second defined condition is satisfied in response to determining that the network devices exhibit a network outage condition.

9. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting the biometric data via the network device to a server device of the network in response to the determining that the biometric satisfies the first defined condition.

10. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting the biometric data via the network device to a server device of the network in response to determining that the network devices do not exhibit the network outage condition.

11. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the transmitting the biometric data comprises transmitting the biometric data according to a defined schedule.

12. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the storing the biometric data comprises storing the biometric data for a defined first defined time, and wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting the biometric data after a second defined time.

13. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise performing a calibration process that calibrates the sensor device.

14. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating summary data representative of a summary of at least a portion of the biometric data;

in response to monitoring the summary data, determining that the summary data satisfies a third defined condition; and

storing the summary data conditionally based on the second defined condition being satisfied.

15. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise directing feedback information to the display device based on a defined rule.

16. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the defined rule relates to a determined state associated with a network device of the network.

17. A method, comprising:

interfacing, by a set top box comprising a processor and a sensor interface, to a sensor device that gathers biometric data, wherein the set top box facilitates a presentation, by a display device, of media content received from a media content provider device associated with a media content provider identity via a network device of network devices of a network;

in response to examination of the biometric data, determining, by the set top box, that a value for the biometric data satisfies a threshold condition;

associating, by the set top box, the biometric data from the sensor device with a subject identity in response to determining that the value for the biometric data satisfies the threshold condition;

conditionally storing, by the set top box, the biometric data in response to determining that a network outage condition of the network devices exists; and

transmitting, by the set top box, the biometric data to a healthcare provider device associated with a healthcare provider identity in response to determining that the value for the biometric data satisfies the threshold condition.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising generating, by the set top box, summary data representative of a summary of the biometric data that satisfies the threshold condition.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the transmitting the biometric data is further in response to determining, by the set top box, that the network outage condition has been determined not to exist.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising performing, by the set top box, a calibration process that calibrates a tolerance setting of the sensor device.