Biological information processing system, terminal , biological information processor, biological information processing method, and program

• US 20030166994A1
• Filed: 03/26/2003
• Published: 09/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Uchida, Shinji, Ooshima, Kiyoko
• Application Number:
  US10/240,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20030166994A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement

Abstract

A biological information measuring system includes (1) a measuring device-side terminal 1, which has a measuring unit 2 of measuring biological information, an adapter unit 6 of obtaining a telephone number from a portable phone 7 to identify the portable phone 7, and transmitting and receiving means 11 of mutually linking the biological information and the telephone number and outputting the information, (2) the portable phone 7, which stores a telephone number to identify a user, and (3) a processing center 8, which has storing means 10 of storing a database in which the name of the user of the portable phone 7 or the like is linked with the telephone number, as well as of storing the biological information from the measuring device-side terminal 1 on a single user basis, and processing means 9 of identifying the user of the portable phone 7 on the basis of the telephone number and the database.

Claims

1. A biological information processing system comprising,

an information retaining device of retaining a certain information including identification information to identify a user,

a terminal unit having

(1) information obtaining means of obtaining said certain information from said information retaining device, and

(2) transmitting means of obtaining biological information of said user, relating the obtained biological information with said identification information, and transmitting it, and

a biological information processing device having

(1) receiving means of receiving said information transmitted from said terminal unit, and

(2) storing means of storing said biological information on the basis of said received identification information.

2. The biological information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said terminal unit comprises biological information measuring means of measuring said biological information of said user.

7. The biological information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said information retaining device is

(1) a portable telephone, in which said identification information is a telephone number of said portable phone, or

(2) a cash card, in which said identification information is a personal identification number of said cash card.

15. A program allowing a computer to perform all or part of said information obtaining means, said transmitting means, said receiving means and said storing means of the biological information processing system according to claim 1.

17. A medium carrying the program according to claim 15 and is computer processible.

3. A terminal unit comprising,

information obtaining means of obtaining a certain information from an information retaining device of retaining said certain information including identification information to identify a user, and

transmitting means of obtaining biological information of said user, relating the obtained biological information with said identification information, and transmitting it to a biological information processing device.

4. An information retaining device of retaining a certain information including identification information to identify a user,

wherein said certain information is obtained by the terminal unit according to claim 3.

6. The terminal unit according to claim 3, wherein said certain information is obtained by said information obtaining means, using any one of Bluetooth, infrared radiation and wired communication system.

8. The information retaining device according to claim 4, wherein the device comprises measuring means having at least one function from among a step number counting function of counting step number data, a pulse wave measuring function of measuring pulse wave data, and a blood pressure measuring function of measuring blood pressure data, and

at least one from said step number data, said pulse wave data and said blood pressure data as well as said identification information are obtained by said terminal unit.

10. The terminal unit according to claim 3, wherein said terminal unit further comprises displaying and/or audio-outputting means of displaying and/or outputting by voice all or part of information from among said biological information measured by said biological information measuring means, said identification information, information regarding said user identified by said biological information processing device, and said biological information stored in said biological information processing device.

5. A biological information processing device comprising,

receiving means of receiving information transmitted from a terminal unit, which has information obtaining means of obtaining a certain information from an information retaining device of retaining said certain information including identification information to identify a user, and transmitting means of obtaining biological information of said user, relating the obtained biological information with said identification information and transmitting it, and

storing means of storing said biological information on the basis of said received identification information.

9. The biological information processing device according to claim 5, wherein said biological information processing device comprises:

advice information storing means of storing a plurality of advice information with respect to said biological information,

selecting means of selecting one or a plurality of advice information from among a plurality of advice information stored by said advice information storing means, on the basis of said biological information transmitted from said terminal unit, and

transmitting means of transmitting said advice information selected by said selecting means to said terminal unit or said information retaining device of said user.

11. A biological information processing method comprising,

an information obtaining step of obtaining a certain information from an information retaining device of retaining said certain information including identification information to identify a user,

a transmitting step of obtaining biological information of said user, relating the obtained biological information with said identification information, and transmitting it from a terminal unit,

a receiving step of receiving said information transmitted from said terminal unit, and

a storing step of storing said biological information on the basis of said received identification information.

12. The biological information processing method according to claim 11, wherein said terminal unit is installed at a convenient store or in a place where an indefinite number of people gather.

16. A program allowing a computer to execute all or part of said information obtaining step, said transmitting step, said receiving step and said storing step of the biological information processing method according to claim 11.

18. A medium carrying the program according to claim 16 and is computer processible.

13. A biological information transmitting method comprising,

an information obtaining step of obtaining a certain information from an information retaining device of retaining said certain information including identification information to identify a user, and

a transmitting step of obtaining biological information of said user, relating the obtained biological information with said identification information, and transmitting it to a biological information processing device.

14. A biological information processing method comprising,

a receiving step of receiving information transmitted from a terminal unit, which has information obtaining means of obtaining a certain information from an information retaining device of retaining said certain information including identification information to identify a user, and transmitting means of obtaining biological information of said user, relating the obtained biological information with said identification information and transmitting it, and

a storing step of storing said biological information on the basis of said received identification information.