Method and apparatus to present a virtual user

• US 8,725,527 B1
• Filed: 03/05/2007
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DP Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: DP Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Kahn, Philippe, Kinsolving, Arthur
• Primary Examiner(s): Lubin, Valerie
• Application Number:
  US11/682,218
• Time in Patent Office: 2,626 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 715/708
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing an interactive interface to user health data is described.

Claims

1. A system to provide an interactive interface to user health data comprising:

a data receiving logic in a server computer system to automatically receive data at the server from at least one sensor, monitor, device (SMD) monitoring an actual user'"'"'s health data and to generate a representation of the SMD data;

a historical SMD database to store the data in a memory in the server system;

a virtual user presented on a display as a visual illustration of a human body and medical information based on the representation of the health data in the historical SMD database showing changes in the health data over time, the virtual user enabling the user to receive an overall health impression of the actual user illustrated and drill down to individual health parameter measurements; and

a display interface including an ability to select a particular measurement associated with a particular SMD, the display interface showing measurements for the health parameter measured by the SMD, the display interface further including a plurality of thresholds associated with the health parameter overlaid over the measurements, the display interface enabling adjustment of the thresholds, while seeing the actual measurements.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the historical SMD database is stored securely to ensure that only authorized users have access to the actual user'"'"'s health data.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a dashboard interface to present a summarized view of the overall health impression.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the dashboard interface presents a plurality of gauges representing various health measurements, the dashboard interface representing an instrument panel, each gauge representing a particular health parameter associated with the user, and at least one gauge having an indicator of an acceptable range of measurements for the health parameter, such that a user familiar with the instrument panel of a vehicle can at a glance receive the overall health impression of the actual user.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the dashboard interface presents a color coded display representing various health measurements.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a multi-user interface to provide data simultaneously about a plurality of actual users, the multi-user interface further to provide an ability to view individual actual user'"'"'s health data via selection.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein each of the plurality of actual users whose data is shown in the multi-user interface specifically authorized the use of their data in the multi-user interface.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the multi-user interface is an interface for a medical professional, and wherein the multi-user interface further includes an indicator to show when an actual user'"'"'s health data indicates a problem.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the indicator is one of:

a color coding, a highlighting of the actual user'"'"'s name, and an icon.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the data receiving logic receives the data via an intermittent connection.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the viewer receives the overall health impression of the actual user via a reliable always-on connection, and the visual illustration includes an image of a body including a plurality of organs, wherein a subset of organs having associated health parameter data available for the user are highlighted, such that a particular organ is selected measurements of the health parameter associated with the organ are displayed.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an intelligent notification engine to send notifications to designated recipients when certain threshold or alert conditions are met.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the threshold or alert conditions comprise at least one of:

historical data, trend analysis, variance from charted trends, simple threshold, and any combination of historical and current health data.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a data timer to set a period of time within which a measurement of health data is expected at the server.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the data timer sends a notification if the health data is not received within the period of time.

16. The system of claim 8, wherein the medical professional sends a notice to the actual user using a notification mechanism, wherein the notification mechanism is automatically selected based on a severity of the notice.

17. A computer implemented method for providing an interactive interface to user health data, the method comprising:

receiving, at a server, data from at least one sensor, monitor, device (SMD) monitoring a user'"'"'s health data;

generating, using an application located at the server or a computer system, a representation of the data from the SMD;

presenting, at a viewer'"'"'s computer system, a virtual user based on the visual representation of the data in the historical SMD database, the representation showing changes in the data over time, the virtual user being a visual illustration of a human body representing the user and overlaying the representation of the data from the SMD, and enabling the viewer to receive an overall health impression of the actual user and drill down to individual health parameter measurements;

displaying, on the user'"'"'s computer system, measurements for a health parameter measured by a particular SMD, including a plurality of thresholds associated with the health parameter overlaid over the display of the measurements; and

adjusting, using the computer system, the thresholds associated with the measurements, while displaying the actual measurements, according to user needs.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

presenting a multi-user interface to provide data simultaneously about a plurality of actual users, the multi-user interface further to provide an ability to view individual actual user'"'"'s health data via selection.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the multi-user interface is an interface for a medical professional, and wherein the multi-user interface further includes an indicator to show when an actual user'"'"'s health data indicates a problem.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the medical professional sends a notice to the actual user using a notification mechanism, wherein the notification mechanism is automatically selected based on a severity of the notice.