Methods, systems, and products for measuring health

• US 8,600,759 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ji, Lusheng, Chang, Hisao, Miller, II, Robert R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Desir, Pierre-Louis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sirjani, Fariba
• Application Number:
  US13/861,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20130226585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 235 Days
• Field of Search: 704270-275, 704/231, 704/251, 704/1
• US Class Current: 704/272
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. A spoken phrase is received and time-stamped. The user is identified from the spoken phrase. A window of time is determined from a semantic content of the spoken phrase. A sensor measurement is received and time-stamped. A difference in time between the time-stamped spoken phrase and the time-stamped sensor measurement is determined and compared to the window of time. When the difference in time is within the window of time, then the sensor measurement is associated with the user.

Claims

1. A method of measuring health, comprising:

receiving, at a server, a time-stamped recording of a spoken phrase;

receiving, at the server, a time-stamped physiological measurement sent from a medical measurement device;

determining the medical measurement device is associated to a group of users;

determining a user, from among the group of users, associated with the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase; and

binding the physiological measurement to the user from among the group of users when the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase is contemporaneous to the time-stamped physiological measurement.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising declining to bind the physiological measurement when the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase is not contemporaneous to the time-stamped physiological measurement.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising considering the physiological measurement indeterminable.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing the physiological measurement in a database.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing an association between the user and the physiological measurement.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising deriving a window of time from the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising voice recognizing a window of time from the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase.

8. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

memory storing code that when executed causes the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving a time-stamped recording of a spoken phrase;

receiving a time-stamped physiological measurement sent from a medical measurement device;

determining a group of users are associated with the medical measurement device;

determining a user, from among the group of users, associated with the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase;

voice recognizing a window of time from the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase;

determining a difference in time between the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase and the time-stamped physiological measurement; and

binding the physiological measurement to the user from among the group of users when the difference in time is within the window of time.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise declining to bind the physiological measurement when the difference in time is outside the window of time.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise considering the physiological measurement indeterminable when the difference in time is outside the window of time.

11. The system according to claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise storing the physiological measurement in a database.

12. The system according to claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise storing an association between the user and the physiological measurement.

13. The system according to claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise storing an association between the user and a device identifier sent with the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase.

14. The system according to claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise storing an association between the physiological measurement and an identifier of the medical measurement device.

15. A memory storing code that when executed causes a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a time-stamped recording of a spoken phrase;

receiving a time-stamped physiological measurement sent from a medical measurement device;

determining a group of users are associated with the medical measurement device;

determining a user, from among the group of users, associated with the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase;

voice recognizing a window of time from the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase;

determining a difference in time between the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase and the time-stamped physiological measurement; and

binding the physiological measurement to the user from among the group of users when the difference in time is within the window of time.

16. The memory according to claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise declining to bind the physiological measurement when the difference in time is outside the window of time.

17. The memory according to claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise considering the physiological measurement indeterminable when the difference in time is outside the window of time.

18. The memory according to claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise storing the physiological measurement in a database.

19. The memory according to claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise storing an association between the user and the physiological measurement.

20. The memory according to claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise storing an association between the user and a device identifier sent with the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase.