Managing user information—background processing

• US 10,290,367 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2017
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Keen, Daniel S., Rushing, Justin S., Shortlidge, Todd Allan
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Isaac M
• Application Number:
  US15/423,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20170147757A1
• Time in Patent Office: 831 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-899
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2291 User-Defined Types; Storage management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for managing user information. For example, subscription information may be received from an application that identifies a data type associated with information of a user. The application may be launched as a background process at least in response to receipt of a portion of the information that corresponds to the data type. In some examples, the application may be relaunched as the background process at least until receipt of a confirmation that the application has processed the portion of the information.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by a computer system, subscription information from an application that identifies at least one data type associated with user information collected during an activity of a user;

receiving at least a portion of the user information corresponding to the at least one data type;

launching, by the computer system, the application as a background process based at least in part on a frequency associated with the subscription information; and

relaunching, by the computer system, the application as the background process at least until receipt of a confirmation that the application has processed the user information corresponding to the at least one data type.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the application is enabled to request the received portion of the user information while running as the background process.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the application is enabled to process the received portion of the user information and return the confirmation that the application has processed the portion of the user information while running as the background process.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the subscription information identifies the data type and a frequency associated with the subscription.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the frequency identifies an amount of time between the receipt of the portion of the user information and launching the application as the background process.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising relaunching the application as the background process based at least in part on a time interval when the confirmation is not received within the time interval.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the time interval is increased after each relaunch of the application as the background process.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the user information corresponding to the at least one data type is received from a data collection device.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the frequency identifies an amount of time between receipt of the portion of the user information and launching the application as the background process.

10. A system, comprising:

a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions; and

a processor in communication with the memory configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to at least;

receive subscription information from an application that identifies a data type associated with user information collected during an activity of a user;

launch the application as a background process at least in response to receipt of a portion of the user information that corresponds to the data type; and

relaunch the application as the background process at least until receipt of a confirmation that the application has processed the portion of the user information.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the application is enabled to request the received portion of the user information while running as the background process.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the application is enabled to process the received portion of the user information and return the confirmation that the application has processed the portion of the user information while running as the background process.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the subscription information identifies the data type and a frequency associated with the subscription.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the frequency identifies an amount of time between the receipt of the portion of the user information and launching the application as the background process.

15. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, configure the processor to perform operations comprising:

storing first data of a plurality of data types for a user;

receiving, from a first application, a subscription to at least one of the plurality of data types;

receiving, from a second application, second data of the plurality of data types the second data comprising user information collected during an activity of a user;

launching the first application as a background process after a first time period when the subscription corresponds to the second data; and

relaunching the first application as the background process after a second time period when no confirmation that the first application has processed the second data within the second time period is received.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first application is a third-party application configured to process health information associated with a plurality of health data types.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the second application is configured to receive the second data from a data collection device configured to collect health information of the user.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the first application is launched as the background process without receipt of an instruction, from the data collection device or the first application, to launch the first application.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the first application is relaunched as the background process without receipt of an instruction, from the data collection device or the first application, to relaunch the first application.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the first application is configured to request the second data while launched or relaunched as the background process.