INTERNET-BASED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING SPACE-TIME COORDINATE INFORMATION AND BIOPHYSIOLOGICAL STATE INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM AN ANIMATE OBJECT ALONG A COURSE THROUGH THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM

• US 6,677,858 B1
• Filed: 05/30/2000
• Issued: 01/13/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Reveo, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Reveo, Inc.
• Inventors: Faris, Sadeg M., Hamlin, Gregory, Flannery, James P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Krisna
• Application Number:
  US09/583,150
• Time in Patent Office: 1,323 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/539, 709/203, 701/214
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/28 Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

An Internet-based method of and system for monitoring space-time coordinate information and biophysiological state information collected from an animate object moving along a course through the space-time continuum. The Internet-based system comprise a wireless GSU-enabled client network device affixed to the body of an animate object. The wireless device includes a global synchronization unit (GSU) for automatically generating time and space (TS) coordinate information corresponding to the time and space coordinate of the animate object with respect to a globally referenced coordinate system, as the animate object moves along a course through the space time continuum. The device also includes biophysiological state sensor affixed to the body of the animate object, for automatically sensing the biophysiological state of the animate object and generating biophysiological state information indicative of the sensed biophysiological state of the animate object along its course. The wireless device also includes a wireless date transmitter for transmitting the TS coordinate information and the biophysiological state information through free-space. A TS-stamping based tracking server receives the TS coordinate information and the biophysiological state information through in a wireless manner, and stores the same as the animate object moves along its course. An Internet information server serves Internet-based documents containing the collected TS coordinate and biophysiological state information. An Internet-enabled client system enables authorized persons to view the served Internet-based documents and monitor the collected TS coordinate and biophysiological state information, for various purposes.

Claims

1. An Internet-based system for monitoring space-time coordinate information and biophysiological state information collected from an animate object moving along a course through the space-time continuum, said Internet-based system comprising:

a wireless GSU-enabled client network device affixed to the body of an animate object, and including

a GSU for automatically generating time and space (TS) coordinate information corresponding to the time and space coordinates of said animate object with respect to a globally referenced coordinate system, as said animate object moves along a course through the space-time continuum, and

a biophysiological state sensor affixed to the body of said animate object, for automatically sensing the biophysiological state of said animate object and generating biophysiological state information indicative of the sensed biophysiological state of said animate object as said animate object moves along said course; and

a wireless data transmitter for transmitting said TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information;

a TS-stamping based tracking server, operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet, for receiving said TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, and storing said TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information;

an Internet information server, operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet and said TS-stamping based tracking receiver, for serving Internet-based documents containing said collected TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, or analyzed variants thereof; and

an Internet-enabled client system, operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet, for viewing said Internet-based documents and monitoring said collected TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, or analyzed variants thereof.

2. The Internet-based system of claim 1, wherein said animate object is selected from the group consisting of a human being and animal.

3. The Internet-based system of claim 1, wherein said biophysiological state sensor is a device selected from the group consisting of a pulse sensor and a temperature sensor.

4. The Internet-based system of claim 1, wherein said Internet information server is a Web information server for serving Web documents-containing said collected TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, or analyzed variants thereof, over the Internet;

and wherein said Internet-enabled client system is a Web-enabled client system for monitoring said collected TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, or analyzed variants thereof, by viewing said Web documents served from said Web information server.

5. An Internet-based method of monitoring space-time coordinate information and biophysiological state information collected from an animate object moving along a course through the space-time continuum, said Internet-based method comprising the steps of:

(a) affixing a wireless GSU-enabled client network device to the body of an animate object;

(b) generating within said GSU-enabled client network device, time and space (TS) coordinate information corresponding to the time and space coordinates of said animate object with respect to a globally referenced coordinate system, as said animate object moves along said course;

(c) sensing the biophysiological state of said animate object and generating within said GSU-enabled client network device, biophysiological state information corresponding to the biophysiological state of said animate object, as said animate object moves along said course;

(d) transmitting, said TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information through free-space, to a TS-stamping based tracking server operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet;

(e) receiving said TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information in a wireless manner at said TS-stamping based tracking server, and storing said TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, as said animate object moves along said course;

(f) serving said collected TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, or analyzed variants thereof, from a Internet information server operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet; and

(g) monitoring said collected TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, or analyzed variants thereof, from an Internet-enabled client system operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet.

6. The Internet-based method of claim 5, where in steps (l) through (g) said animate object is an object selected from the group consisting of a human being, a domesticated animal and a wild animal.

7. The Internet-based method of claim 5, where in step (c) said biophysiological state sensor is a device selected from the group consisting of a pulse sensor and a temperature sensor.

8. The Internet-based method of claim 5, wherein said Internet information server is a Web information server for serving Web documents-containing said collected TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, or analyzed variants thereof, over the Internet;

and wherein said Internet-enabled client system is a Web-enabled client system for monitoring said collected TS coordinate information and said biophysiological state information, or analyzed variants thereof, by viewing said Web documents served from said Web information server.