Sensor device

• US 8,604,930 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2010
• Issued: 12/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Inventors: Koraichi, Najib, Montaner, Javier
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tai T
• Application Number:
  US12/842,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20110221595A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/573.4, 3405721-5728, 340/5.1, 340/8.1, 340/539.12, 235/380, 235/382, 235/385, 235/492, 705/67, 600/300, 600/301
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

There is provided a mobile communication device. An exemplary mobile communication device comprises an input unit, a display and a processing unit being connected with a subscriber identity module and with an adapter module, wherein the adapter module is in communication with at least one sensor capturing biological and/or medical data of the user of the mobile communication device.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device, comprising:

a mobile terminal;

an input unit at the mobile terminal;

a display at the mobile terminal; and

a processing unit at the mobile terminal being connected with a subscriber identity module and with an adapter module, the subscriber identity module being connected with the mobile terminal via the adapter module, wherein the adapter module comprises a microprocessor, and a memory unit for storing data, and applications that can be run on the microprocessor, is in communication with at least one sensor capturing biological and/or medical data of a user of the mobile communication device and the microprocessor being configured to run an application for reading out the at least one sensor, or a plurality of sensors, connected to the mobile communication device.

2. The mobile communication device recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor comprises a plurality of sensors.

3. The mobile communication device recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor is located on an outside of the mobile communication device to provide physical contact with the user who utilizes the communication device.

4. The mobile communication device recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor is not located on the mobile communication device.

5. The mobile communication device recited in claim 4, wherein the at least one sensor is integrated in a device which is separate of the mobile communication device.

6. The mobile communication device recited in claim 5, wherein the at least one sensor is separate of the mobile communication device and is connected to the adapter module by a data communication link.

7. The mobile communication device recited in claim 6, wherein the communication link comprises a wired or wireless data communication link.

8. The mobile communication device recited in claim 7, wherein the wireless data communication link is a communication link according to the ZigBee or NFC standard.

9. The mobile communication device recited in claim 1, wherein the adapter module comprises a contacting element suitable to be inserted into a card receptacle of the mobile terminal, electrical contacts for contacting contact elements of a card reader unit of the mobile terminal, and electrical contacts for contacting the electrical contacts of the subscriber identity module.

10. A system, comprising:

a mobile communication device that comprises a subscriber identity module;

a sensor separate from the mobile communication device; and

an adapter module comprising a microprocessor, and a memory unit for storing data and applications that can be run on the microprocessor, the adapter module being connected to the subscriber identity module, the microprocessor being configured to run an application for reading a sensor capturing biological and/or medical data of a user of the mobile communication device, wherein the sensor is connected to the adapter module by data communication link.

11. The system recited in claim 10, wherein the adapter module and sensor are each connected to a radio interface.

12. The system recited in claim 11, wherein the radio interface is an interface according to the ZigBee and/or NFC standard.

13. A mobile communication device comprising:

a mobile terminal comprising an input unit, a display, a processing unit;

a subscriber identity module; and

an adapter module to connect the subscriber module with the mobile terminal, wherein the adapter module comprises a microprocessor, and a memory unit for storing data, and applications that can be run on the microprocessor, the adapter module being in communication with at least one sensor capturing biological and/or medical data of a user of the mobile communication device and the microprocessor is configured to run an application for reading out the at least one sensor, or a plurality of sensors, connected to the mobile communication device.