SENSOR DATA SHARING

• US 20080117039A1
• Filed: 11/26/2007
• Published: 05/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Ruha, Antti
• Granted Patent: US 7,710,262 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.11
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0462 Apparatus with built-in sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0816 Measuring devices for examining respiratory frequency measuring frequency of electric signals G01R23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4261 Evaluating exocrine secretion production A61B3/101 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

The disclosed embodiments relate to a method for operating two or more mobile terminals in an interactive session. The mobile terminals are provided with one or more sensors. The data captured by the sensors is sent via a wireless connection to the other mobile terminals that participate in the interactive session. The data received from the other mobile communication terminals is communicated to the user of the respective mobile communication terminals via the user interface.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a mobile communication terminal with at least one sensor coupled thereto;

capturing data in the terminal from the at least one sensor;

sending the captured data to at least one other mobile communication terminal while receiving other sensor data from the at least one other mobile communication terminal; and

presenting an indication of the received other sensor data via a display or loudspeaker of the mobile communication terminal.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor is embedded in the mobile communication terminal or located remotely from the mobile communication terminal.

3. The method of claim 1 where the indication is a number and/or a graph presented on the display of the mobile communication terminal.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising that the captured data from the at least one terminal is transmitted from the terminal to the at least one other terminal simultaneously with receiving the other sensor data from the at least one other terminal.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising the at least one other terminal presenting an indication of data received from the mobile communication terminal.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor measures ambient parameters.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein said at least one sensor comprises air temperature sensors, air humidity sensors, air pressure sensors, altimeters or air speed sensors.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one sensor measures physical parameters of the user'"'"'s body.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein said at least one sensor comprises body temperature sensors, heart rate sensors, blood pressure sensors, breathing rate sensors, perspiration sensors or movement sensors.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the received data from one sensor is processed and presented in a graph shown on the display.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the received other sensor data is received from several sensors and is combined, processed and presented, as derived parameter on the display.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal is in a gaming session in which gaming data is exchanged between the mobile communication terminal and other terminals, and the sensor data is included in the gaming data.

13. A method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal is in a sports training session in which training data is exchanged between the mobile communication terminal and other terminals, and the sensor data is included in the training data.

14. A computer program product stored in a memory comprising computer readable code for carrying out the method of claim 1.

15. An article of manufacture comprising:

a processor in a system for carrying out the method according to claim 1.