Mobile communication device with user wellness verification

• US 20060187025A1
• Filed: 04/01/2004
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wildseed Ltd. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Wildseed Ltd. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Waggoner, Margaret P., Engstrom, G Eric
• Application Number:
  US10/551,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20060187025A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.120
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/04 responsive to non-activity, e.g. of elderly persons G08B21/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/021 using combined folding and rotation motions combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72418 for supporting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7246 by connection of exchangeable housing parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72475 specially adapted for disabled users
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

A mobile communication device is equipped with one or more components to report on one or more events, and logic to identifying one of more user wellness verification conditions based at least in part on the reporting or the absence of the reporting. The logic is further equipped to solicit user interactions with the device to verify the user'"'"'s wellness, when a wellness verification condition is identified. In various embodiments, the mobile communication device is further equipped to report, on failure of the user to satisfactorily interact when solicited, the failure. In various embodiments, the components contributing to the event reporting, and/or the logic that at least contribute to the receipt of the event reporting, identification of the verification conditions, soliciting the user interactions, and reporting the failures, may be embedded in whole or in part on an interchangeable cover of the mobile communication device.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device comprising

one or more components to report on one or more events to contribute to identification of a user wellness verification condition;

and

logic operatively coupled to the components to monitor and receive said reporting, to identify user wellness verification conditions based at least in part on said reporting or absence of said reporting, and to solicit, in response to each identification, a user of the mobile communication device to verify wellness of the user.

2. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein said one or more components are equipped to report a low battery condition, and said logic is equipped to monitor the reporting of a low battery condition, identify the reporting as a user wellness verification condition, and solicit the user to charge the device within a required time period.

3. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein said one or more components are equipped to report idleness the mobile communication device, and said logic is equipped to monitor the reporting, identify the idleness as a user wellness verification condition when the idleness becomes excessive, and solicit the user to use the device within a required time period.

4. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein said one or more components comprise a motion sensor to sense and report on motion of the mobile communication device, and said logic is equipped to identify at least a selected one of the mobile communication device having been stationery for a period, and the mobile communication device having experienced a rapid change in altitude in excess of a change rate threshold.

5. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein said logic is equipped to cause the mobile communication device to simulate receipt of a call to attempt to get the user'"'"'s attention, on identifying a user wellness verification condition.

6. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein said logic is equipped to solicit the user, in response to an identification of a user wellness verification condition, to follow one or more instructions to demonstrate the user is well.

7. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein said logic is equipped to solicit the user, in response to an identification of a user wellness verification condition, to perform at least a selected one of answering a prompt and touch one or more keys to demonstrate that the user is well.

8. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein said logic is further equipped to report, on failure of the user to satisfactorily interact with the mobile communication device as solicited, the failure.

9. The mobile communication device of claim 8, wherein said logic is equipped to perform at least a selected of placing a call and sending a text message to a designated party, in response to the user failing to satisfactorily interact with the mobile communication device as solicited.

11. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is a mobile communication device selected from the communication device group consisting of a wireless mobile phone, and a personal digital assistant equipped with communication capabilities.

10. The mobile communication device of 9, wherein the designated party is a party selected the party group consisting of a message service, a health care provider, a family member, and a relative.

12. A interchangeable cover for mobile communication device comprising:

a cover body; and

one or more components embedded in the cover body having at least a selected one of data and logic to at least contribute to enabling the mobile communication device to monitor and receive reporting of events, to identify user wellness verification conditions based at least in part on said reporting or absence of said reporting, and to solicit, in response to each identification, a user of the mobile communication device to verify wellness of the user.

13. The interchangeable cover of claim 12, wherein said at least a selected one of data and logic is equipped to at least contribute to causing the mobile communication device to simulate receipt of a call to attempt to get the user'"'"'s attention, on identifying a user wellness verification condition.

14. The interchangeable cover of claim 12, wherein said at least a selected one of data and logic is equipped to at least contribute to solicit the user, in response to an identification of a user wellness verification condition, to follow one or more instructions to demonstrate the user is well.

15. The interchangeable cover of claim 12, wherein said at least a selected one of data and logic is equipped to at least contribute to solicit the user, in response to an identification of a user wellness verification condition, to perform at least a selected one of answering a prompt and touch one or more keys to demonstrate that the user is well.

16. The interchangeable cover of claim 12, wherein said at least a selected one of data and logic is further equipped to report, on failure of the user to satisfactorily interact with the mobile communication device as solicited, the failure.

17. The interchangeable cover of claim 16, wherein said at least a selected one of data and logic is equipped to at least contribute to performing at least a selected of placing a call and sending a text message to a designated party, in response to the user failing to satisfactorily interact with the mobile communication device as solicited.

18. The interchangeable cover of claim 17, wherein the designated party is a selected one of a message service, a health care provider, a family member, and a relative.

19. The interchangeable cover of claim 12, wherein said one or more components further comprise a motion sensor to sense and report on motion of the mobile communication device, and said at least a selected one of data and logic is equipped to at least contribute to identify at least a selected one of the mobile communication device having been stationery for a period, and the mobile communication device having experienced a rapid change in altitude in excess of a change rate threshold.

20. The interchangeable cover of claim 12, wherein the cover body is U-shaped and designed to be attached to the mobile communication device from a side of the mobile communication device.

21. The interchangeable cover of claim 12, wherein the interchangeable cover is a front cover plate, with the cover body designed to be attached to the mobile communication device from a front of the mobile communication device.

22. The interchangeable cover of claim 12, wherein the interchangeable cover is a back cover plate, with the cover body designed to be attached to the mobile communication device from a back of the mobile communication device.