Physiologic sensors for sensing, measuring, transmitting, and processing signals

• US 10,798,547 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2019
• Issued: 10/06/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Phyzio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Phyzio, Inc.
• Inventors: Gold, Steven K., DiPietro, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US16/273,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20190174284A1
• Time in Patent Office: 602 Days
• Field of Search: 455 411, 455 412
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0226 Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems
• 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 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A system includes physiologic sensors and devices. The physiologic sensors sense human physiologic data and the system processes and transmits signals representing the physiologic data. The physiologic data represent at least one physiologic parameter, such as heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, body temperature, blood chemistry, other blood constituents, muscle contraction, movement, activity, speech, and brain waves. The system also determines that a device and an object are in proximity to each other, and secures physiologic data at times when the device and object are in proximity to each other, in order to correlate a person'"'"'s physiologic state while in proximity with or while using the object.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

(A) at a device, using a first receiver module to wirelessly receive a second signal from a first object, at a first time, the second signal comprising a first identifier representing a unique identity of the first object;

(B) at the device, using a processor module to store a second identifier representing a unique identity of the device, wherein the device and the first object are distinct from each other;

(C) at the device, at a second time, using the processor module to determine that the device is in proximity to the first object;

(D) using a first transmitter module to wirelessly transmit a third signal comprising the first identifier, and a fourth signal comprising the second identifier, to a remote server, in response to determining that the device is in proximity to the first object;

(E) at a first sensor module that is external to the device, at a third time after the second time, sensing a first value of a first physiologic parameter of the first user;

(F) at the first sensor module, using a second transmitter module to transmit a fifth signal comprising first physiologic data representing the first value of the first physiologic parameter to the device;

(G) at the device, using a second receiver module to receive the fifth signal representing the first physiologic data;

(H) at the device, after determining that the device is in proximity to the first object, using a third transmitter module to wirelessly transmit a sixth signal comprising the first physiologic data to the remote server; and

(I) at the device, receiving a subsequent action signal comprising feedback derived from the first physiologic data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback comprises the first physiologic data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback comprises feedback derived from the first physiologic data.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the feedback comprises a reward derived from the first physiologic data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the feedback comprises a command to the device to perform an action, thereby causing the device to perform the action.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(J) at the device, at a fourth time after the first time, determining that the device is not in proximity to the first object; and

(K) after determining that the device is not in proximity to the first object, wirelessly transmitting, to the remote server, data indicating that the device is not in proximity to the first object.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

(L) at the first sensor module, at a fifth time after the fourth time, sensing a second value of the first physiologic parameter of the first user;

(M) at the first sensor module, transmitting second physiologic data representing the second value of the first physiologic parameter to the device; and

(N) after determining that the device is not in proximity to the first object, wirelessly transmitting the second physiologic data to the remote server.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(J) at the device, at a fourth time after the first time, determining that the device is not in proximity to the first object; and

(K) in response to determining that the device is not in proximity to the first object, terminating transmission of the first physiologic data to the remote server.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein

determining that the device is in proximity to the first object comprises determining that the device received the second signal from the first object.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein (D) comprises, at the device:

(D)(1) identifying a current location of the device;

(D)(2) identifying a current location of the first object; and

(D)(3) determining that the device is in proximity to the first object in response to determining that the current location of the device and the current location of the first object satisfy a proximity condition.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first identifier comprises a unique code associated only with the first object.

12. A system comprising:

a device comprising;

a first receiver module to wirelessly receive a second signal from a first object, at a first time, the second signal comprising a first unique identifier representing a unique identity of the first object;

a processor module configured to;

store a second identifier representing a unique identity of the device, wherein the device and the first object are distinct from each other;

determine, at a second time, that the device is in proximity to the first object;

a first transmitter module to wirelessly transmit a third signal comprising the first identifier, and a fourth signal comprising the second identifier, to a remote server, in response to determining that the device is in proximity to the first object;

a first sensor module, external to the device, configured to;

sense, at a third time after the second time, a first value of a first physiologic parameter of the first user;

use a second transmitter module to transmit a fifth signal comprising first physiologic data representing the first value of the first physiologic parameter to the device;

wherein the device further comprises a second receiver module to receive the fifth signal representing the first physiologic data;

wherein the device further comprises a third transmitter module to wirelessly transmit, after determining that the device is in proximity to the first object, a sixth signal comprising the first physiologic data to the remote server; and

wherein the device is further configured to receive a subsequent action signal comprising feedback derived from the first physiologic data.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the feedback comprises the first physiologic data.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the feedback comprises feedback derived from the first physiologic data.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the feedback comprises a reward derived from the first physiologic data.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the feedback comprises a command to the device to perform an action, thereby causing the device to perform the action.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein determining that the device is in proximity to the first object comprises determining that the device received the second signal from the first object.

18. The system of claim 12,

wherein the device further comprises:

a GPS component for identifying a current location of the device;

object location data for identifying a current location of the first object; and

a processor for determining that the device is in proximity to the first object in response to determining that the current location of the device and the current location of the first object satisfy a proximity condition.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the first identifier comprises a unique code associated only with the first object.