Managing user information—source prioritization

• US 9,582,643 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., Blahnik, Jay C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Woo, Isaac M
• Application Number:
  US14/499,519
• Publication Number:
  US 20150347690A1
• 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, data of a particular data type may be received from a plurality of sources. In some examples, the data may include at least respective time stamps. The received data may be aggregated to form a data record for a period of time based at least in part on the respective time stamps. Additionally, in some cases, the data record may be provided to at least one application configured to present a user interface representing the aggregated data of the plurality of sources.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying, by a computer system, a particular data type of a plurality of data types to manage;

receiving health data corresponding to the particular data type from at least a first source and a second source of a plurality of data sources;

receiving priority information identifying a priority of first source and the second source;

identifying a time interval for partitioning the health data by the plurality of data sources;

during each identified time interval over an amount of time, identifying a data entry for the particular data type with a highest identified priority when the data entry exists in a data store configured to maintain the received health data corresponding to the particular data type; and

aggregating each identified data entry to form an aggregated record for the particular data type over the amount of time.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising providing the aggregated record to a user device for presentation within a user interface to a user.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a request from the first source for the aggregated record that at least includes the received health data from the second source.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a type of the particular data type based at least in part on metadata associated with received health data.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the aggregated record only includes each identified data entry corresponding to the highest identified priority when the identified type is cumulative.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the aggregated record includes each identified data entry corresponding to the highest identified priority and other identified data entries for the identified time period when the identified type is discrete.

7. 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 data of a particular data type from a plurality of sources, the data including at least respective time stamps;

aggregate the received data to form a data record for a period of time based at least in part on the respective time stamps; and

provide the data record to at least one application configured to present a user interface representing the aggregated data of the plurality of sources.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the at least one application is a particular one of the plurality of sources, and wherein the data record includes at least one data point not received from the particular one of the plurality of sources.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein at least one of the plurality of sources comprises a third-party application or a first-party application.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the received data is based at least in part on metrics collected by a data collection device associated with at least one of the third-party application or the first-party application.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to at least identify priority information for at least a subset of the plurality of sources and a time interval for the period of time.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to at least identify a data entry for the particular data type with a highest identified priority for each time interval.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the provided data record only includes each identified data entry corresponding to the highest identified priority when the particular data type is cumulative.

14. The system of claim 7, wherein the provided data record includes data entries corresponding to the particular data type from the plurality of sources for individual time intervals of the period of time, wherein at least one time interval of the individual time intervals includes a plurality of different data entries, and wherein at least one of the plurality of data entries is from a different source of the plurality of sources.

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

receiving data of a particular data type from at least a first data source and a second data source;

identifying priority information associated with the first data source and the second data source;

aggregating, based at least in part on the priority information, the received data to form a data record over a period of time; and

providing the data record to at least one application configured to present a user interface representing the aggregated data of the first data source and the second data source.

16. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the data record represents individual data entries of the particular data type for each of a plurality of time intervals during the period of time.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein a length of the plurality of time intervals is determined based at least in part on at least one of the particular data type, an activity associated with the particular data type, or historical information associated with a user of the at least one application.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the identified priority information is determined based at least in part on at least one of a preference of a user, historical behavior of the user, or activity behavior associated with the first data source or the second data source.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the at least one application comprises a third-party application configured to provide a user interface corresponding to the data record to a user of the third-party application.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise providing an application programming interface method to the third-party application for requesting the data record, the data record including at least some health information of the user not provided by the third-party application.