Managing user information—background processing

• US 9,582,642 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2014
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Keen, Daniel S., Rushing, Justin S., Shortlidge, Todd Allan
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Isaac M
• Application Number:
  US14/499,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20150347499A1
• Time in Patent Office: 883 Days
• Field of Search: 707600-899
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2291 User-Defined Types; Storage management thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/00 ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for managing user information. For example, subscription information may be received from an application that identifies a data type associated with information of a user. The application may be launched as a background process at least in response to receipt of a portion of the information that corresponds to the data type. In some examples, the application may be relaunched as the background process at least until receipt of a confirmation that the application has processed the portion of the information.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

maintaining, by a computer system, a secure storage configured to store health data corresponding to a plurality of data types;

receiving, from a third-party application, a subscription to at least one data type of the plurality of data types and a frequency associated with the subscription;

receiving a portion of the health data corresponding to the at least one data type;

launching the third-party application as a background process based at least in part on the frequency associated with the subscription;

setting a trigger to relaunch the third-party application as the background process within a time period; and

at least one of;

canceling the trigger to relaunch the third-party application when confirmation that the third-party application has processed the portion of the health data is received within the time period;

or

relaunching the third-party application as the background process when the confirmation is not received from the third-party application within the time period.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the health data corresponding to the at least one data type is received from an application associated with a data collection device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the frequency is configured by the third-party application.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the frequency identifies an amount of time between receipt of the portion of the health data and launching the third-party application as the background process.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the third-party application is launched without a request from a data collection device or the third-party application.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the time period is configured to be increased for each relaunching of the third-party application.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the increase is exponential to a threshold amount of time.

8. A system, comprising:

a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions; and

a processor in communication with the memory configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to at least;

receive subscription information from an application that identifies a data type associated with information of a user;

launch the application as a background process at least in response to receipt of a portion of the information that corresponds to the data type; and

relaunch the application as the background process at least until receipt of a confirmation that the application has processed the portion of the information, the relaunch of the application as the background process being based at least in part on a time interval when the confirmation is not received within the time interval.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the application is enabled to request the received portion of the information while running as the background process.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the application is enabled to process the received portion of the information and return the confirmation that the application has processed the portion of the information while running as the background process.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the subscription information identifies the data type and a frequency associated with the subscription.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the frequency identifies an amount of time between the receipt of the portion of the information and launching the application as the background process.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the time interval is increased after each relaunch of the application as the background process.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, configure the processor to perform operations comprising:

storing first data of a plurality of data types for a user;

receiving, from a first application, a subscription to at least one of the plurality of data types;

receiving, from a second application, second data of the plurality of data types;

launching the first application as a background process after a first time period when the subscription corresponds to the second data, the first time period being configurable by the first application; and

relaunching the first application as the background process after a second time period when no confirmation that the first application has processed the second data within the second time period is received, and the second time period changing by a configurable amount after each relaunch of the first application as the background process.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the first application is a third-party application configured to process health information associated with the plurality of health data types.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the second application is configured to receive the second data from a data collection device configured to collect health information of the user.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the first application is at least one of launched or relaunched as the background process without receipt of an instruction, from the data collection device or the first application, to launch or relaunch the first application.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the first application is configured to request the second data while launched or relaunched as the background process.