Managing an environment according to environmental preferences retrieved from a data storage medium

• US 6,862,529 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2003
• Issued: 03/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Paolini, Michael A., Brown, Michael Wayne, Lawrence, Kelvin Roderick
• Primary Examiner(s): Barlow, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Taylor, Victor J.
• Application Number:
  US10/425,762
• Publication Number:
  US 20030236625A1
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• Field of Search: 702/3, 700/83, 700/276, 700/278, 710/301, 307/104, 235/380
• US Class Current: 702/3
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25084 Select configuration as function of operator

Abstract

According to the present invention, environment indicators computed for a particular environment from among multiple environments are converted into a common transmittable data format. The environment indicators are transmitted in the common transmittable data format to a data processing system, wherein the data processing system has access to a personal storage device proffered by a particular user. An environment sensitivity profile for the particular user associated with the particular environment, is retrieved from the personal storage device to the data processing system. An environment indicator analyzer application executing on the data processing system analyzes the multiple environment indicators received at the data processing system according to the environmental sensitivity profile and determines control signals for adjusting multiple environmental control systems that control the particular environment.

Claims

1. A data storage medium comprising:

an environmental profile stored for a particular user within a particular environment;

an interface for enabling access to said environment profile stored for said particular user in said data storage medium;

wherein said interface enables receipt of current environmental exposure for said particular user from a computer system with access to an environmental measurement device that detects a particular environment parameter of said particular environment; and

wherein said interface enables access to said environment profile and said current environmental exposure by a controller for a plurality of control systems that each respectively affect one of a plurality of parameters of said particular environment.

2. The data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein data is accessed via said interface by a personal storage device adapter coupled to a data processing system.

3. The data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein said data storage medium further comprises a smart card.

4. A data storage medium comprising:

a environmental exposure profile stored for a particular user;

an interface for enabling access to stored data on said data storage medium;

wherein said environmental exposure profile is accessed via said interface by a personal storage device adapter coupled to a data processing system; and

wherein said environmental exposure profile is accessed at said data processing system and compared with an environmental exposure database to determine medical treatment for said particular user.

5. The data storage medium according to claim 4, wherein said environmental exposure profile is periodically accessed at said data processing system and stored for medical research.