Smart caregiver platform methods, apparatuses and media

• US 9,142,116 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2013
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ashkan Sattari
• Original Assignee: Ashkan Sattari
• Inventors: Sattari, Ashkan
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hung T
• Application Number:
  US14/090,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20140145845A1
• Time in Patent Office: 665 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.13, 340/539.11, 340/539.15, 340/573.1, 340/573.4, 340/995.1, 340/995.19, 455/457, 455/457.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0423 detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/043 detecting an emergency event, e.g. a fall
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0446 worn on the body to detect changes of posture, e.g. a fall, inclination, acceleration, gait
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/22 responsive to presence or absence of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12

Abstract

A SCGP may provide a smart location guide (e.g., via GPS) to help keep the user from wandering off and getting lost. The SCGP may help the user travel independently via bus, car, and on foot. The SCGP may also notify the caregiver if the user wanders off or gets lost and may generate reports (e.g., via text, charts, graphs) showing the caregiver situations in which the user is likely to wander off or get lost. The SCGP may facilitate staying in touch with the user by allowing the caregiver to send the user reminders and important information, and to share pictures, videos, text messages, and voice messages with the user.

Claims

1. A processor-implemented method to detect a user wandering, comprising:

obtaining via the processor a user'"'"'s location data;

analyzing via the processor approved locations for the user with respect to the location data;

determining via the processor that an analysis indicates that a condition signifying that the user is wandering has been triggered;

generating via the processor directions to an approved location for the user;

detecting that the user did not follow the directions;

facilitating informing the user'"'"'s caregiver regarding the user'"'"'s location and direction of travel;

waiting a specified time period; and

concluding that the user did not follow the directions when the user does not reach the approved location within the specified time period.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the location data comprises the user'"'"'s location and direction of travel.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein whether a location is an approved location for the user depends on at least one of weather, temperature, date, time.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the condition is triggered when the user is outside a designated safe area.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the condition is triggered when (1) the user is not at one of the approved locations and (2) the user is not travelling via an approved route.