Apparatus and method of acquiring and storing data of close contacts
First Claim
1. A device for use in recording incidence and duration of close contact for tracking at least one disease, the device having embedded therein at least one circuit including:
- a semiconductor processor;
a memory;
a clock;
an identifier; and
a transmitter/receiver with an antenna,wherein the transmitter/receiver is for receiving the identifier of at least one other similar device when the device and the at least one other similar device are in close contact, the semiconductor processor being for stamping the received identifier with a received date and a received time, and the memory being for storing the received identifier with its received date and time, and wherein the received identifier and its received date and time are stored in the memory for a predetermined time of not less than an incubation time for the at least one disease.
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Abstract
A method of recording close contacts for disease control, the method including the steps of using a device to transmit identity and date/time of contact details to a similar device for each close contact. Identity details of the similar device are received and store for at least predetermined time for each close contact. At the expiry of the predetermined time the received identity details may be overwritten if the memory is full. The stored identity details are used to determine identities of persons with whom close contact had been made within the predetermined time. The device has embedded therein a semiconductor processor device, a memory device, a clock and a transmitter/receiver with an antenna.
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1. A device for use in recording incidence and duration of close contact for tracking at least one disease, the device having embedded therein at least one circuit including:
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a semiconductor processor; a memory; a clock; an identifier; and a transmitter/receiver with an antenna, wherein the transmitter/receiver is for receiving the identifier of at least one other similar device when the device and the at least one other similar device are in close contact, the semiconductor processor being for stamping the received identifier with a received date and a received time, and the memory being for storing the received identifier with its received date and time, and wherein the received identifier and its received date and time are stored in the memory for a predetermined time of not less than an incubation time for the at least one disease. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of recording incidence and duration of close contacts for disease control, the method including:
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(a) using a device to transmit identity details of the device to at least one other similar device when the device and the at least one other similar device are in close contact; (b) receiving from the at least one other similar device and identifier of the at least one other similar device; (c) processing the received identifier by adding to it a date and time of receipt; (d) storing in a memory the received identifier together with its date and time of receipt until the memory is full, whereupon it is able to be overwritten by a newly received identifier together with its date and time of receipt; and (e) downloading and using the stored received identifiers together with their date and time of receipt to determine identities of persons with whom close contact had been made, wherein the received identifier and its date and time of receipt are stored in the memory for at least a predetermined time, the predetermined time being not less than an incubation time for the disease. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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