SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTHCARE ADVISORY SYSTEM

• US 20080243863A1
• Filed: 04/02/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Services Organization Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: KANAAN, Muzaffer
• Granted Patent: US 8,010,380 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A system includes a Healthcare Advisory System (HAS) module and a server. The HAS module may send user location information to the server. Based on user information and environment information stored on the server, an alert may be generated and sent to a user via the HAS module.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

tracking user location;

obtaining, based on the user location, environment information that relates to an environment in which the user is present, where the environment information is accessed from a database that gathers environment information from a plurality of sources other than the user;

generating an alert based on information specific to the user and based on the environment information; and

sending the alert to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the environment information includes information about entities in a vicinity of the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information specific to the user includes a medical condition of the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the alert to the user includes sending the alert to a mobile terminal.

5. The method of claim of claim 1, further comprising:

sending the alert to a second user.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the second user includes a physician of the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the environment information includes nutritional information of a restaurant.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the environment information includes a map.

9. A computing device including logic executable on a computer-readable memory hardware device, the computing device comprising:

logic to receive information relating to healthcare of a user;

logic to receive environment information relating to structures in a vicinity of the user;

logic to generate alerts for the user based on the information relating to the healthcare of the user and the structures in the vicinity of the user; and

logic to transmit the alerts to the user.

10. The computing device of claim 9, further comprising:

logic to transmit the alert to a mobile terminal of the user.

11. The computing device of claim 9, further comprising logic to send an alert to a second user responsible for care of the user.

12. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the environment information includes nutritional information of a restaurant.

13. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the environment information includes a map.

14. A method comprising:

sending, by a mobile terminal, current location information of a user to a server; and

receiving, at the mobile terminal, an alert for the user, the alert having been generated based on information specific to the user and based on environment information that relates to an environment in which the user is present, the environment information being based on the location information and accessed from a database that gathers environment information from a plurality of sources other than the user.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the information specific to a user includes a medical condition of the user.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein receiving the alert includes receiving the alert on a mobile terminal.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein receiving the alert includes receiving the alert on a mobile terminal of a physician of the user.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the environment information includes nutritional information of a restaurant.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the environment information includes a map.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the alert includes a text message.