Mobile information terminal, control method thereof, and storage medium

• US 9,867,158 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2014
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kawai, Takatomo
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US14/222,408
• Publication Number:
  US 20140287775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,390 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561
• 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: 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A mobile information terminal includes a setting unit configured to store position information for browsing patient information. The mobile information terminal downloads the patient information from a server via a communication unit to store the patient information in a data storage unit according to a result of comparing position information specified by a terminal position specifying unit with the position information stored by the setting unit.

Claims

1. A mobile information terminal comprising:

at least one processor; and

as least one memory storing position information set for each piece of personal information for browsing the personal information, and computer-executable instructions to be executed by the at least one processor to perform a method comprising;

specifying a position of the mobile information terminal;

communicating with an external device that manages the personal information;

downloading the personal information from the external device according to a result of comparing the specified position information with the stored position information; and

deleting the downloaded personal information from the mobile information terminal according to a result of comparing the specified position information with the stored position information.

2. The mobile information terminal according to claim 1, wherein:

the downloaded personal information can be updated at the mobile information terminal; and

the deleting includes uploading the personal information that has been downloaded and updated according to the result of comparing the specified position information with the stored position information, and then deleting the personal information from the mobile information terminal.

3. The mobile information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the downloading includes downloading the personal information in a case where the specified position information matches the stored position information, and the deleting includes deleting the downloaded personal information in a case where the specified position information does not match the stored position information.

4. The mobile information terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the method further comprises:

receiving an input for updating the downloaded personal information,

wherein, in a case where the input has been received, the deleting includes deleting the downloaded personal information from the mobile information terminal after the downloaded personal information which is updated according to the received input has been uploaded to the external device.

5. The mobile information terminal according to claim 1, wherein the deleting includes deleting the downloaded personal information in a case where the specified position information does not match the stored position information.

6. The mobile information terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the downloading includes downloading the personal information in a case where the specified position information matches the stored position information.

7. The mobile information terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the downloading includes, when downloading the personal information from the external device, downloading the personal information based on type information.

8. The mobile information terminal according to claim 7,

wherein the type information is medical treatment type information and indicates whether medical treatment is new or continuous.

9. A mobile information terminal comprising:

at least one processor; and

as least one memory storing position information set for each piece of personal information for browsing the personal information, and computer-executable instructions to be executed by the at least one processor to perform a method comprising;

specifying a position of the mobile information terminal;

communicating with an external device that manages the personal information; and

downloading the personal information from the external device according to a result of comparing the specified position information with the stored position information,

wherein;

the at least one memory stores the position information set for each piece of personal information in association with type information; and

the downloading includes, when downloading the personal information from the external device, downloading the personal information based on the type information.

10. The mobile information terminal according to claim 9, wherein the type information changes at the mobile information terminal according to the result of comparing the specified position information with the stored position information.

11. The mobile information terminal according to claim 9, wherein the type information is medical treatment type information and indicates whether medical treatment is new or continuous.