INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM THEREIN

• US 20150145693A1
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Published: 05/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Fumie, Toriumi, Satoko, Otsuka, Reina, Fukuda, Mutsumi
• Granted Patent: US 9,592,033 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.17
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0012 Ovulation-period determination for animals A61D17/002
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2010/0019 based on measurement of temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/024 for remote indication
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 13/20 Clinical contact thermometers for use with humans or animals
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention causes an alarm output means to output an alarm at a preset time, causes the alarm output means to stop outputting the alarm when a stop instruction is input by a user while the alarm is being output, and makes a transition to a standby state in which biological information wirelessly transmitted from a measurement instrument can be received in response to the stop of the alarm.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an output control means that causes an alarm output means to output an alarm at a preset time;

a stop control means that, when a stop instruction is input by a user while the alarm is being output, causes the alarm output means to stop outputting the alarm; and

a transition control means that makes a transition to a standby state in which biological information wirelessly transmitted from a measurement instrument can be received in response to the stop of the alarm.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the biological information is not received from the measurement instrument within a first predetermined time after the transition to the standby state, the output control means causes to output an alarm again after a second predetermined time.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first setting means that sets ON or OFF a re-output function of outputting an alarm again after the second predetermined time after an alarm is stopped,

wherein when the re-output function is set ON, if the biological information is received from the measurement instrument within the first predetermined time after the transition to the standby state, the first setting means sets OFF the re-output function.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a measurement means that measure a time until the biological information is received after the alarm is stopped; and

a second setting means that sets a transition time until the standby state is brought after the alarm is stopped based on the time measured by the measurement means,

wherein when the transition time set by the second setting means elapses after the alarm is stopped, the transition control means makes a transition to the standby state in which the biological information can be received.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a storage means that stores a history of times measured by the measurement means for a plurality of setting contents containing at least an alarm setting time,

wherein the second setting means sets the transition time for the setting contents based on the measurement history, and

when the transition time corresponding to the setting contents elapses after the alarm output according to the setting contents by the output control means is stopped, the transition control means makes a transition to the standby state in which the biological information can be received.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second setting means that sets a transition time until the standby state is brought after the alarm is stopped based on at least a time required to measure the biological information by the measurement instrument,

wherein when the transition time set by the second setting means elapses after the alarm is stopped, the output control means makes a transition to the standby state in which the biological information can be received.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the alarm is a wake-up alarm.

8. An information processing method performed by a computer, comprising:

a step of causing an alarm output means to output an alarm at a preset time;

a step of, when a stop instruction is input by a user while the alarm is being output, causing the alarm output means to stop outputting the alarm; and

a step of making a transition to a standby state in which biological information wirelessly transmitted from a measurement instrument can be received in response to the stop of the alarm.

9. (canceled)

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11. A server apparatus to which an information processing apparatus is connectable via a network, comprising:

a storage means that stores an information processing program for causing a computer to perform a step of causing an alarm output means to output an alarm at a preset time, a step of, when a stop instruction is input by a user while the alarm is being output, causing the alarm output means to stop outputting the alarm, and a step of making a transition to a standby state in which biological information wirelessly transmitted from a measurement instrument can be received in response to the stop of the alarm; and

a transmitting means that transmits the information processing program to an information processing apparatus in response to a request from the information processing apparatus capable of executing the information processing program.