Context health determination system

• US 10,304,325 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Inventors: You, Di, Ali, Mir F., Davis, Paul C., Li, Jianguo, Russell, Dale W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mortell, John F
• Application Number:
  US13/798,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20140266782A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,267 Days
• Field of Search: 34087003
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/16 in which transmission is by pulses
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/80 for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics, e.g. flu

Abstract

Systems, methods, and devices for determining contexts and determining associated health profiles using information received from multiple health sensor enabled electronic devices, are disclosed. Contexts can be defined by a description of spatial and/or temporal components. Such contexts can be arbitrarily defined using semantically meaningful and absolute descriptions of time and location. Health sensor data is associated with or includes context data that describes the circumstances under which the data was determined. The health sensor data can include health sensor readings that are implicit indications of health for the context. The sensor data can also include user reported data with explicit descriptions of health for the context. The health sensor data can be filtered by context data according a selected context. The filtered sensor data can then be analyzed to determine a health profile for the context that can be output to one or more users or entities.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computer system, health data from a plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices, wherein the health data comprises;

data from a first sensor of a first sensor-enabled mobile electronic device;

data from a second sensor deployed in a wearable electronic device communicatively coupled to the first sensor-enabled mobile electronic device, the first sensor-enabled mobile electronic device being carried on a body while the wearable electronic device is separately worn on the body;

context data for a plurality of contexts, wherein each of the plurality of contexts corresponds to a geographical area and a time period; and

corresponding implicit health data for the plurality of contexts, the implicit health data comprising data from the first sensor and data from the second sensor, the implicit health data sensed by the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices for the plurality of contexts;

determining, by the computer system, a first context in the plurality of contexts;

determining, by the computer system, a first portion of the health data determined to include context data that matches the first context, wherein the first portion of the health data includes context data that is captured within a geographical area and a time period that is within a geographical area boundary and a time period boundary that is defined by the first context, and wherein the first portion of the health data is determined to include context data that matches the first context by filtering the first portion of the health data from the health data received by the computer system from the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices, wherein the first portion of the health data is filtered from the health data received by the computer system according to the determined first context;

analyzing, by the computer system, the implicit health data in the first portion of the health data to generate a first plurality of health descriptors for the first context;

based on the first plurality of health descriptors for the first context, determining a particular characteristic for the first context; and

generating, by the computer system, a first health profile for the first context based on the first plurality of health descriptors for the first context, wherein the first health profile for the first context is a profile of a plurality of people each one of whom was present within the geographical area of the first context during the time period of the first context, and wherein the first health profile for the first context comprises the particular characteristic for the first context.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating, by the computer system, an associated pair comprising the first health profile and the first context; and

outputting, by the computer system, the associated pair.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the health data further comprises corresponding explicit health description data determined by the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices from explicit user input for the plurality of contexts.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising extracting, by the computer system, a second plurality of health descriptors from the explicit health description data for the first context, wherein generating the first health profile is further based on the second plurality of health descriptors.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein generating the first health profile comprises determining a corresponding occurrence frequency for each health descriptor in the first plurality of health descriptors and the second plurality of health descriptors, and generating a list comprising each health descriptor in the first plurality of health descriptors and the second plurality of health descriptors for which the corresponding occurrence frequency is greater than a threshold value.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices comprises a plurality of wearable electronic devices configured to sense the implicit health data.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

generating, by the computer system, a plurality of alerts based on the first health profile for the first context, and

sending, by the computer system, the plurality of alerts to a portion of the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, by the computer system, a further portion of the health data from a plurality of stationary electronic devices, wherein each stationary electronic device is configured to sense implicit health data for a particular context in the plurality of contexts.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first portion of the health data comprises:

data received from one or more of the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices for the particular context,

data received from one or more of the plurality of wearable electronic devices for the particular context, and

data received from one or more of the plurality of stationary electronic devices for the particular context.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein health data received from the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices is weighted differently from health data received from the plurality of stationary electronic devices in analyzing the implicit health data in the first portion of the health data to generate the plurality of health descriptors for the first context.

11. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining, by the computer system, a second context in the plurality of contexts, wherein the second context corresponds to a second geographical area and a second time period;

determining, by the computer system, a second portion of the health data determined to include context data that matches the second context;

analyzing, by the computer system, the implicit health data in the second portion of the health data to generate a first plurality of health descriptors for the second context;

extracting, by the computer system, a second plurality of health descriptors for the second context from the explicit health description data for the second context; and

generating, by the computer system, a second health profile for the second context based on the first plurality of health descriptors for the second context and the second plurality of health descriptors for the second context, wherein the second health profile for the second context is a profile of a second plurality of people each one of whom was present within the second geographical area during the second time period.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first context comprises a first time associated with a first event at a location, and the second context comprises a second time associated with a second event at the location.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the first context comprises a time associated with a first location, and the second context comprises the time associated with a second location.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the first context comprises a portion of the second context.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising determining a difference between the first health profile and the second health profile, wherein the difference between the first health profile and the second health profile corresponds to a health trend associated with the first context and the second context.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising outputting, by the computer system, the difference between the first health profile and the second health profile.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

generating, by the computer system, an alert based on the difference between the first health profile and the second health profile; and

sending, by the computer system, the alert to a portion of the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the first context comprises referencing an event definition, wherein the event definition comprises a spatial component and a temporal component.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed, control an electronic device to be configured for:

receiving health data from a plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices, wherein the health data comprises;

data from a first sensor of a first sensor-enabled mobile electronic device;

data from a second sensor deployed in a wearable electronic device communicatively coupled to the first sensor-enabled mobile electronic device, the first sensor-enabled mobile electronic device being carried on a body while the wearable electronic device is separately worn on the body;

context data for a plurality of contexts, wherein each of the plurality of contexts corresponds to a geographical area and a time period; and

corresponding implicit health data for the plurality of contexts, the implicit health data comprising data from the first sensor and data from the second sensor, the implicit health data sensed by the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices for the plurality of contexts;

determining a first context in the plurality of contexts;

determining a first portion of the health data determined to include context data that matches the first context, wherein the first portion of the health data includes context data that is captured within a geographical area and a time period that is within a geographical area boundary and a time period boundary that is defined by the first context, and wherein the first portion of the health data is determined to include context data that matches the first context by filtering the first portion of the health data from the health data received by the computer system from the plurality of sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices, wherein the first portion of the health data is filtered from the health data received by the computer system according to the determined first context;

analyzing the implicit health data in first the portion of the health data to generate a first plurality of health descriptors for the first context;

based on the first plurality of health descriptors for the first context, determining a particular characteristic for the first context; and

generating a first health profile for the first context based on the first plurality of health descriptors for the first context, wherein the first health profile for the first context is a profile of a plurality of people each one of whom was present within the geographical area of the first context during the time period of the first context, and wherein the first health profile for the first context comprises the particular characteristic for the first context.

20. A sensor-enabled mobile electronic device comprising:

one or more computer processors;

a first health sensor;

a second health sensor deployed in a wearable electronic device communicatively coupled to the sensor-enabled mobile electronic device, the sensor-enabled mobile electronic device being carried on a body while the wearable electronic device is separately worn on the body;

an electronic communication interface; and

a memory operably coupled to the one or more computer processors, the memory containing instructions, that when executed, control the one or more computer processors to be configured to;

activate one or more of the first health sensor and the second health sensor to determine a health sensor reading;

determine context data for the health sensor reading, wherein the context data describes the circumstances in which the health sensor reading was determined;

generate health sensor data comprising the context data and the health sensor reading;

send the health sensor data to one or more remote service providers through the electronic communication interface; and

receive, from a first remote service provider in the one or more remote service providers through the electronic communication interface, a first health profile for a first context based on a first plurality of health descriptors for the first context, wherein the first context corresponds to a geographical area and a time period, wherein the first health profile for the first context is a profile of a plurality of people each one of whom was present within a geographical area of the first context during a time period of the first context, and wherein the first health profile for the first context comprises a particular characteristic for the first context, wherein the particular characteristic for the first context is determined by the first remote service provider based upon the first plurality of health descriptors for the first context, wherein the first plurality of health descriptors for the first context are generated by the first remote service provider through an analysis of health data in a first portion of health sensor data that is received by the first remote service provider from the sensor-enabled mobile electronic device and a plurality of other sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices, wherein the first portion of health sensor data is filtered by the first remote service provider from the health sensor data that is received by the first remote service provider from the sensor-enabled mobile electronic device and a plurality of other sensor-enabled mobile electronic devices according to the first context.