KIDS PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS FED INTO VIDEO GAMES

• US 20100167801A1
• Filed: 12/31/2008
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Choing, Hong, Karkanias, Chris Demetrios, Sadovsky, Vladimir, Czerwinski, Mary P., Cameron, Kim
• Application Number:
  US12/346,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20100167801A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/7
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The claimed matter provides systems and/or techniques that regulate and/or prescribe an individual'"'"'s behavior while playing electronic games. The system includes mechanisms and/or modalities that identify physical and/or mental activities similar to those undertaken by a game character and that are appropriate to the fitness or mental capabilities of the individual. It requests the individual to perform the activities selected during the execution of the electronic game, monitors the individual'"'"'s performance of the activity, and reproduces and associates the individual'"'"'s actions in performing the selected task to the game character during execution of the electronic game. Further, it enhances or diminishes attributes of the game character based on the intensity of the individual'"'"'s performance of the selected activity.

Claims

1. A machine implemented system that regulates behavior, comprising:

a first component that accesses via an interface personal health records associated with an individual;

a second component that probes an electronic game for at least one characteristic associated with a game character utilized by the individual to play the electronic game;

based at least in part on the personal health record associated with the individual or the at least one characteristic associated with the game character a third component identifies activities that the game character requests the individual to perform;

a fourth component that monitors a sensor associated with the individual for at least one of performance of the activities requested of the individual by the game character or inactivity of the individual; and

based at least in part on an intensity of the performance of the activities requested of the individual or information from the personal health records associated with the individual, a fifth component that at least one of augments an attribute associated with the game character or reduces the attribute associated with the game character.

2. The system of claim 1, the personal health records associated with the individual at least one of persisted on or associated with a manager component that performs a directed vertical search based on specifically tailored search queries that include health data items related to the individual'"'"'s health.

3. The system of claim 1, the activities that the game character requests the individual to perform include at least one of a physical activity or a mental activity, the physical activity or the mental activity individualized based at least in part on the personal health records associated with the individual.

4. The system of claim 1, the activities that the game character requests the individual to perform utilized to at least one of accentuate or diminish the at least one characteristic associated with the game character.

5. The system of claim 1, the sensors associated with the individual include one or more of a heart rate monitor, a motion detector, a perspiration analyzer, a blood pressure monitor, a thermometer, or a global positioning system.

6. The system of claim 5, the sensors included in one or more of textiles, fabrics, clothing, or jewelry, the sensors communicate with the component via at least one of Near-Field Communications (NFC) or through electrical conductance associated with a human body.

7. The system of claim 1, the intensity of the performance of the activities requested of the individual derived from an analysis of the personal health records associated with the individual and input received from the sensor associated with the individual.

8. A method implemented on a machine that prescribes user behavior, comprising:

obtaining personal health records associated with the user;

retrieving game character attributes associated with a game;

identifying an activity undertaken by the game character during execution of the game;

requesting the user to perform a similar task to the activity undertaken by the game character during execution of the game;

monitoring the user performing the similar task to the activity undertaken by the game character during execution of the game; and

replicating an action of the user performing the similar task and projecting the action onto the game character where the game character performs the action during execution of the game.

9. The method of claim 8, the obtaining personal health records further comprising utilizing a cryptographic key to access authorized aspects of the personal health records associated with the user.

10. The method of claim 9, the cryptographic key employs one or more of an asymmetric public key scheme or a symmetric key scheme.

11. The method of claim 8, the monitoring the user performing the similar task further comprising utilizing sensors to determine a level of exertion being expended by the user in performing the similar task.

12. The method of claim 8, the personal health records associated with the user persisted on an engine that facilitates directed health specific searches, the directed health specific searches based at least in part on the persisted health records associated with the user or past search queries associated with the personal health records.

13. The method of claim 8, the similar task to the activity undertaken by the game character during execution of the game determined based at least on an age level of the user, a capability of the user, or a medical condition associated with the user.

14. The method of claim 8, the similar task to the activity undertaken by the game character includes at least one of a physical challenge or a mental challenge.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising dynamically adjusting the similar task based at least in part on the monitoring the user performing the similar task.

16. A system that regulates behavior, comprising:

means for assigning to an individual an activity undertaken by a game persona during execution of a game;

means for monitoring performance of the activity assigned to the individual; and

means for projecting the performance of the activity by the individual to the game persona during execution of the game.

17. The system of claim 16, the means for assigning further comprising means for determining the activity based at least in part on a health record obtained from a means for vertically searching based on aspects associated with the health record.

18. The system of claim 16, the means for monitoring performance further comprising utilizing means for measuring blood pressure, means for locating a geographic location;

and means for ascertaining pupil dilation.

19. The system of claim 16, the means for monitoring performance communicates with at least one of the means for measuring blood pressure, the means for ascertaining pupil dilation, a means for measuring heart rate, a means for determining body temperature, or a means for analyzing perspiration through at least one of Near-Field Communications or through electrical conductance imbued in the individual.

20. The system of claim 16, further comprising means for deriving an intensity level of the individual undergoing performance of the activity, the intensity level based at least in part on a personal health record associated with the individual.