Wearable computing device for secure control of physiological sensors and medical devices, with secure storage of medical records, and bioimpedance biometric
First Claim
1. A wearable master electronic device comprising:
- at least one sensor;
at least one processor with a memory, the processor being coupled to a radio subsystem comprising at least one radio and configured to provide a body area network (BAN) radio function to communicate with nodes of a BAN;
the memory comprising machine-readable instructions capable of directing the processor to identify a wearable node of the nodes of the BAN and to communicate through the BAN radio with the wearable node to receive data therefrom;
the machine-readable instructions capable of directing the processor to process readings from the at least one sensor and readings from at least a second sensor in the wearable node to determine whether the wearable node and the wearable master electronic device are worn by a same subject;
wherein the sensors read by the machine-readable instructions and processed to determine whether the wearable node and the wearable master electronic device include sensors selected from the group consisting of accelerometers, pulse sensors, microphones, and bioimpedance sensors.
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Abstract
A wearable master electronic device (Amulet) has a processor with memory, the processor coupled to a body-area network (BAN) radio and uplink radio. The device has firmware for BAN communications with wearable nodes to receive data, and in an embodiment, send configuration data. The device has firmware for using the uplink radio to download apps and configurations, and upload data to a server. An embodiment has accelerometers in Amulet and wearable node, and firmware for using accelerometer readings to determine if node and Amulet are worn by the same subject. Other embodiments use pulse sensors or microphones in the Amulet and node to both identify a subject and verify the Amulet and node are worn by the same subject. Another embodiment uses a bioimpedance sensor to identify the subject. The wearable node may be an insulin pump, chemotherapy pump, TENS unit, cardiac monitor, or other device.
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22 Claims
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1. A wearable master electronic device comprising:
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at least one sensor; at least one processor with a memory, the processor being coupled to a radio subsystem comprising at least one radio and configured to provide a body area network (BAN) radio function to communicate with nodes of a BAN; the memory comprising machine-readable instructions capable of directing the processor to identify a wearable node of the nodes of the BAN and to communicate through the BAN radio with the wearable node to receive data therefrom; the machine-readable instructions capable of directing the processor to process readings from the at least one sensor and readings from at least a second sensor in the wearable node to determine whether the wearable node and the wearable master electronic device are worn by a same subject; wherein the sensors read by the machine-readable instructions and processed to determine whether the wearable node and the wearable master electronic device include sensors selected from the group consisting of accelerometers, pulse sensors, microphones, and bioimpedance sensors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A wearable master electronic device comprising:
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at least one processor with a memory, the processor coupled to a radio subsystem comprising at least one radio configured to communicate with nodes of a body area network (BAN) and provide an uplink radio function for communications with a server; the memory comprising machine-readable instructions capable of directing the processor to communicate through the radio to identify a wearable node of the nodes of the BAN and to receive data therefrom, capable of directing the processor to communicate through the uplink to download an application comprising specific machine-executable instructions associated with the identified wearable node for processing data from the identified wearable node, and adapted to execute the downloaded application to process data from that wearable node into processed data, and configured to upload the processed data to a server; and at least one sensor; wherein the machine-readable instructions comprise instructions capable of directing the processor to process readings from the at least one sensor and readings from at least a second sensor in the wearable node to determine whether the wearable node and the wearable master electronic device are worn by a same subject; and wherein the sensors read by the machine readable instructions and processed to determine whether the wearable node and the wearable master electronic device are worn by the same subject include sensors selected from the group consisting of accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, and bioimpedance sensors. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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