Collection and use of monitored data

• US 8,861,860 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2011
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Gupta, Nisheeth
• Primary Examiner(s): Koziol, Stephen R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Jonathan S
• Application Number:
  US13/300,903
• Publication Number:
  US 20130129217A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,058 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/08 Feature extraction
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/62 Text, e.g. of license plates, overlay texts or captions on TV images

Abstract

A device is configured to capture an image of a monitoring device display, perform optical character recognition to identify alphanumeric data in the image, apply a device profile to map each identified alphanumeric datum to a parameter associated with the monitoring device; and store each datum along with its associated parameter.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

instantiating a module of a capture device proximate to a monitoring device for capturing an image presented by a display of the monitoring device;

capturing the image of the display of the monitoring device;

performing by the module optical character recognition to identify alphanumeric data in the image;

presenting a first list of device profiles locally stored on the capture device;

presenting a second list of device profiles remotely stored on a remote device when a device profile is not selected from the first list of device profiles;

applying by the module a device profile associated with the monitoring device to map each identified alphanumeric datum to a monitoring parameter, wherein the device profile is a profile from one of the first and second lists; and

storing each datum in association with the mapped monitoring parameter.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data and the parameters are stored in a device used to capture the image.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the data and the parameters via a network, wherein the data and the parameters are stored in a remote data store.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating the device profile by accepting user input to associate each datum with one of the device monitoring parameters.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising saving the device profile in at least one of a device used to capture the image and a remote device.

6. The method of claim 1, the device profile storing the monitoring parameters, and guiding via templates an interpretation of each identified alphanumeric datum based on the monitoring parameters.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising publishing at least some of the data and parameters to one or more social media outlets.

14. The method of claim 1, each monitoring parameter representing at least one parameter from a set including an average heart rate, a time duration of an exercise session, an exercise distance, and an estimated number of calories burned.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein a piece of exercise equipment includes the monitoring device.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising requesting a signal indicating that the optical character recognition was verified.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a signal indicating that the device profile was selected from one of the first and second lists of device profiles.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating the device profile by:

identifying a monitoring device type;

mapping each identified alphanumeric datum to a respective monitoring parameter of a set of monitoring parameters associated with the monitoring device type; and

naming the device profile according to a received signal.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

aggregating a plurality of first mapped monitoring parameters to provide a first average of the plurality of first mapped monitoring parameters;

aggregating a plurality of second mapped monitoring parameters to provide a second average of the plurality of second mapped monitoring parameters; and

providing the first and second averages to a user of the capture device.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform:

instantiating a module of a capture device proximate to a monitoring device for capturing an image presented by a display of a monitoring device;

capturing the image of the display of the monitoring device;

performing by the module optical character recognition to identify alphanumeric data in the image;

displaying a first list of device profiles locally stored on the capture device;

displaying a second list of device profiles from a remote device when a device profile from the first list of device profiles is not selected;

applying by the module a device profile selected from one of the first and second lists and associated with the monitoring device to map each identified alphanumeric datum to a monitoring parameter; and

storing each datum in association with the mapped monitoring parameter.

9. The medium of claim 8, the instructions further comprising instructions for creating the device profile by accepting user input to associate each datum with one of the device monitoring parameters.

10. The medium of claim 8, the device profile storing the monitoring parameters, and guiding via templates an interpretation of each identified alphanumeric datum based on the monitoring parameters.

11. A system, comprising:

a monitoring device; and

a device proximate to the monitoring device including a processor, a memory, and a camera, the device configured to;

instantiate a module stored on the memory for capturing an image presented by a display of the monitoring device;

capture an image of the display of the monitoring device;

perform by the module optical character recognition to identify alphanumeric data in the image;

present a first list of device profiles locally stored on the capture device;

present a second list of device profiles when a device profile from the first list is not selected, wherein the second list of device profiles is remotely stored on a remote device;

apply by the module a device profile associated with the monitoring device to map each identified alphanumeric datum to a monitoring parameter, wherein the device profile associated with the monitoring device is a profile selected from one of the first and second lists; and

store each datum in association with the mapped monitoring parameter.

12. The system of claim 11, the device further configured to create the device profile by accepting user input to associate each datum with one of the device monitoring parameters.

13. The system of claim 11, the device profile configured to store the monitoring parameters, and guide via templates an interpretation of each identified alphanumeric datum based on the monitoring parameters.