Notifying of health events in peer environments

• US 9,582,839 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Issued: 02/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bari, Farooq, Ray, Sankar
• Primary Examiner(s): Burgess, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US13/053,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20120245955A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,170 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products notify of health events. Personal health information is stored in memory of a mobile communications device. A peer device is discovered through a wireless personal data network. The peer device is queried for anonymous health information. The anonymous health information is aggregated with the personal health information to produce aggregated health information. The aggregated health information is stored in the memory of the mobile communications device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

locally storing, in a memory device of a mobile communications device, an individual'"'"'s personal health information;

discovering, by the mobile communications device, a peer mobile device;

sending, from the mobile communications device, a query via a network to the peer mobile device, the query requesting a different person'"'"'s anonymous health information retrievable via the peer mobile device;

receiving, at the mobile communications device, the different person'"'"'s anonymous health information requested from the peer mobile device;

aggregating, in the memory device of the mobile communications device, the different person'"'"'s anonymous health information with the individual'"'"'s personal health information to produce aggregated health information;

retrieving, by the mobile communications device, global positioning system information describing a location of the mobile communications device;

comparing, by the mobile communications device, the location to a radius about a threshold location;

determining, by the mobile communications device, that the location exceeds the radius about the threshold location;

determining, by the mobile communications device, an irrelevancy of the aggregated health information in response to the location exceeding the radius about the threshold location; and

executing, by the mobile communications device, a rule that purges the aggregated health information from the memory device in response to the location exceeding the radius about the threshold location.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising

appending the global positioning system coordinates to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving a unique identifier associated with a wireless network access point to the network, the wireless network access point providing wireless service to the mobile communications device; and

appending the unique identifier to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

querying an electronic table for the unique identifier associated with the wireless network access point, the electronic table indicating electronic associations between different identifiers of different wireless network access points and corresponding geographical addresses;

retrieving a geographical address from the electronic table that is electronically associated with the unique identifier; and

appending the geographical address to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.

5. A mobile communications device, comprising:

a hardware processor; and

a memory device, the memory device storing code, the code when executed causing the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

locally storing an individual'"'"'s personal health information;

discovering a peer mobile device via a network;

sending a query from the mobile communications device via the network to the peer mobile device, the query requesting a different person'"'"'s anonymous health information retrievable via the peer mobile device;

receiving the different person'"'"'s anonymous health information at the mobile communications device;

aggregating the different person'"'"'s anonymous health information with the individual'"'"'s personal health information to produce aggregated health information;

retrieving global positioning system information describing a location of the mobile communications device;

comparing the location to a radius about a threshold location;

determining that the location exceeds the radius about the threshold location;

determining an irrelevancy of the aggregated health information in response to the location exceeding the radius about the threshold location; and

executing a rule that purges the aggregated health information from the memory device in response to the location exceeding the radius about the threshold location.

6. The mobile communications device of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise

appending the global positioning system coordinates to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.

7. The mobile communications device of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise:

retrieving a unique identifier associated with a wireless network access point to the network, the wireless network access point providing wireless service to the mobile communications device; and

appending the unique identifier to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.

8. The mobile communications device of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

querying an electronic table for the unique identifier associated with the wireless network access point, the electronic table indicating electronic associations between different identifiers of different wireless network access points and corresponding geographical addresses;

retrieving a geographical address from the electronic table that is electronically associated with the unique identifier; and

appending the geographical address to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.

9. A memory device storing instructions that when executed cause a hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

locally storing an individual'"'"'s personal health information in a mobile communications device;

discovering a peer mobile device via a wireless personal data network;

receiving a different person'"'"'s anonymous health information stored in the peer mobile device;

aggregating, by the mobile communications device, the different person'"'"'s anonymous health information with the individual'"'"'s personal health information to produce aggregated health information;

retrieving global positioning system information describing a location of the mobile communications device;

comparing the location to a radius about a threshold location;

determining that the location exceeds the radius about the threshold location;

determining an irrelevancy of the aggregated health information in response to the location exceeding the radius about the threshold location; and

executing a rule that purges the aggregated health information from the memory device in response to the location exceeding the radius about the threshold location.

10. The memory device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise

appending the global positioning system coordinates to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.

11. The memory device of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

retrieving a unique identifier associated with a wireless network access point to the wireless network, the wireless network access point providing wireless service to the mobile communications device; and

appending the unique identifier to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.

12. The memory device of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

querying an electronic table for the unique identifier associated with the wireless network access point, the electronic table indicating electronic associations between different identifiers of different wireless network access points and corresponding geographical addresses;

retrieving a geographical address from the electronic table that is electronically associated with the unique identifier; and

appending the geographical address to the individual'"'"'s personal health information.