METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY MONITORING A USER

• US 20140009283A1
• Filed: 09/10/2013
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Resource Consortium Limited, LLC
• Original Assignee: Resource Consortium Limited
• Inventors: HUMBARD, Charles
• Granted Patent: US 8,952,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0202 Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0261 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect trespassing over a fixed physical boundary, e.g. the end of a garden
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0269 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0275 Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS] tag technology used for parent or child unit, e.g. same transmission technology, magnetic tag, RF tag, RFID
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0283 via a telephone network, e.g. cellular GSM
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/04 responsive to non-activity, e.g. of elderly persons G08B21/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/088 by monitoring a device worn by the person, e.g. a bracelet attached to the swimmer
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/22 responsive to presence or absence of persons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/022 with dynamic range variability

Abstract

A subscription system and corresponding method of operation for monitoring user'"'"'s well-being is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing, at a user monitor module, a first indicator for the user well-being; providing, at a receiving module operably coupled to the user monitor module, a first threshold for the first indicator; receiving, at the receiving module, the first indication; comparing the first indication and the first threshold; generating a secondary indication when the comparison indicates that the first indication equals or exceeds the first threshold; receiving, at a supervisory module coupled to the receiver module, the secondary indication; and informing a supervisor that the first threshold has been reached.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring a user, the method comprising:

receiving, by one or more computers, a plurality of indicators from a user device, at least one of the indicators corresponding to a physical characteristic of the user as monitored by the user device;

identifying, by the one or more computers, a threshold value for each of the plurality of indicators;

comparing, by the one or more computers, each of the plurality of indicators to its respective threshold value;

generating, by the one or more computers, a message if the comparison indicates that at least one of the plurality of indicators meets or exceeds its respective threshold value; and

transmitting, by the one or more computers, the message to a supervisor device associated with a supervisor of the user.