Graphical user interfaces including touchpad driving interfaces for telemedicine devices

• US 10,658,083 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2018
• Issued: 05/19/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: iRobot Corporation, Jonata Sub Two, Inc. (Teladoc Health, Inc.), Teladoc Health, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Touch Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Jordan, Charles S., Young, Andy, Ng, Mei Sheng, Lurie, Yair, Lai, Fuji, Wright, Timothy C., Herzog, Cody, Whitney, Blair, Rizzi, Bill, Ballantyne, James, Wang, Yulun, Wong, Cheuk Wah, Kearns, Justin, Taka, Orjeta, Karandikar, Ramchandra
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duc
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mohammed, Assad
• Application Number:
  US16/045,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20190066839A1
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/22 Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

The present disclosure describes various aspects of remote presence interfaces (RPIs) for use on portable electronic devices (PEDs) to interface with remote telepresence devices. An RPI may allow a user to interact with a telepresence device, view a live video feed, provide navigational instructions, and/or otherwise interact with the telepresence device. The RPI may allow a user to manually, semi-autonomously, or autonomously control the movement of the telepresence device. One or more panels associated with a video feed, patient data, calendars, date, time, telemetry data, PED data, telepresence device data, healthcare facility information, healthcare practitioner information, menu tabs, settings controls, and/or other features may be utilized via the RPI.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, are configured to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

retrieving a list of patients;

selectively displaying the list of patients;

receiving a selection of a patient from the patient list;

automatically selecting a remote presence device from a plurality of remote presence devices, wherein automatically selecting comprises;

connecting to an admissions, discharges, and transfers (ADT) data source for a facility;

determining using the ADT data source a current location of the selected patient within the facility; and

selecting a remote presence device nearest the current location of the selected patient within the facility;

communicatively connecting an electronic device to the selected remote presence device;

displaying a live video feed from a camera of the remote presence device in a video panel on an electronic display of the electronic device; and

updating the live video feed as the selected remote presence device moves to the selected destination.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving a selection of a patient from the patient list;

displaying an endpoint list including a plurality of remote presence devices and their respective connectivity states, wherein the endpoint list is text searchable and includes one or more persons who are currently or scheduled for a period of time to be associated with the selected patient;

communicatively connecting an electronic device to a selected remote presence device;

displaying a live video feed from a camera of the remote presence device in a video panel on an electronic display of the electronic device; and

updating the live video feed as the selected remote presence device moves to the selected destination.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the operation of communicatively connecting an electronic device to a remote presence device is responsive to receiving a selection of a remote presence device from the endpoint list.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the connectivity states include at least two of ready state, a busy state, and an offline state.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the endpoint list is filterable based on a filtering parameter.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the filtering parameter includes at least one of endpoint type, manufacturer, status, facility, building, floor, room, customer, and group.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the endpoint list includes a name of a person.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the destination list includes at least one of a room name or a room number.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the endpoint list includes a name of a person that is scheduled for a period of time to be associated with the selected patient.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving a selection of a patient from the patient list;

automatically selecting a remote presence device from a plurality of remote presence devices in proximity to the selected patient while minimizing travel to the selected patient through an area of poor wireless connectivity;

communicatively connecting an electronic device to the selected remote presence device;

displaying a live video feed from a camera of the remote presence device in a video panel on an electronic display of the electronic device; and

updating the live video feed as the remote presence device moves to the selected destination.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a remote presence device within a same room as the selected patient is automatically selected.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a remote presence device on a same floor as the selected patient is automatically selected.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the automatically selected remote presence device is a remote presence device that has been previously assigned to the selected patient.