MANAGEMENT, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION WITH SENSORS

• US 20140118159A1
• Filed: 10/24/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NICE North America LLC
• Original Assignee: Synergenics, LLC
• Inventors: Fish, Ram David Adva, Messenger, Henry
• Granted Patent: US 9,526,420 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.01
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0266 for monitoring or limiting apparatus function
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0493 controlled by voice
• 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 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6801 specially adapted to be attached to or worn on the body surface
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/747 in case of emergency, i.e. alerting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/749 Voice-controlled interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/31 Voice input
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

A voice call is established using a computing device. A user is instructed to prepare a first device for pairing with the computing device and a server may instruct the computing device to scan for additional devices. The server may identify a first device from a list of devices and may instruct the computing device to pair with the first device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a first user input indicating a pairing request for a computing device;

requesting a list of one or more additional devices, wherein the one or more additional devices are visible to the computing device;

receiving the list of one or more additional devices from the computing device;

receiving a second user input identifying a first device from the list of one or more devices, wherein the first device comprises a health sensor; and

transmitting one or more instructions for pairing the health sensor with the computing device to the computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein requesting the list of one or more additional devices comprises:

transmitting a first instruction to the computing device to activate a first communication interface, wherein the first communication interface is to be used by the computing device to communicate with the health sensor; and

transmitting a second instruction to the computing device to perform a scan for the one or more additional devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second user input comprise an identifier for the health sensor.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

obtaining the one or more instructions based on the identifier.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving data from the health sensor, wherein the data is forwarded from the health sensor via the computing device; and

processing the data received from the health sensor, wherein the data comprises health data of a user of the computing device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a confirmation from the computing device, the confirmation indicating that the computing device has paired with the health sensor.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device comprises a wearable computing device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first user input is received in response to a voice call between a remote operator and a user of the computing device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the computing device comprises a second communication interface and wherein the voice call is established using the second communication interface.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a memory to store data;

a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to;

receive a request for a list of one or more devices, wherein the one or more devices are visible to the apparatus;

scan for the one or more devices using a first communication interface;

transmit the list of one or more devices to a server using a second communication interface;

receive one or more instructions to pair with a first device from the list of one or more devices, wherein the first device comprises a health sensor; and

pair with the health sensor based on the one or more instructions.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the request for the list of one or more devices is received after a voice call is established using the second communication interface.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processing device is to receive the request for the list of one or more devices by:

receiving a first instruction to activate the first communication interface, wherein the first communication interface is to be used to communicate with the health sensor.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to:

receive data from the health sensor; and

forward the data to the server.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to:

receive first data from the server; and

forward the data to the health sensor.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a first user input indicating a pairing request for a computing device;

requesting a list of one or more additional devices, wherein the one or more additional devices are visible to the computing device;

receiving the list of one or more additional devices from the computing device;

receiving a second user input identifying a first device from the list of one or more devices, wherein the first device comprises a health sensor; and

transmitting one or more instructions for pairing the health sensor with the computing device to the computing device.

16. The transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein requesting the list of one or more additional devices comprises:

transmitting a first instruction to the computing device to activate a first communication interface, wherein the first communication interface is to be used by the computing device to communicate with the health sensor; and

transmitting a second instruction to the computing device to perform a scan for the one or more additional devices.

17. The transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the second user input comprise an identifier for the health sensor.

18. The transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, the operations further comprising:

obtaining the one or more instructions based on the identifier.

19. The transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

receiving data from the health sensor, wherein the data is forwarded from the health sensor via the computing device; and

processing the data received from the health sensor, wherein the data comprises health data of a user of the computing device.

20. The transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first user input is received in response to a voice call between a remote operator and a user of the computing device.