Telemetry system with tracking receiver devices

• US 9,406,220 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2013
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fitbit, Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hello, Inc.
• Inventors: Proud, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Alizada, Omeed
• Application Number:
  US13/966,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20140247152A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,084 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/08 Sensors provided with means for identification, e.g. barcodes or memory chips
• 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 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6831 Straps, bands or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/23 The load being a medical device, a medical implant, or a life supporting device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/12 of the resonant type
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/60 responsive to the presence of foreign objects, e.g. detection of living beings
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• 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: H04L 67/125 : involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 : Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 : for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 : Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• 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: Y04S 40/18 : Network protocols supporting networked applications, e.g. including control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

A wireless power transmission system includes, a transmit antenna which in operation produces a wireless field, an amplifier coupled to the transmit antenna, a load sensing circuit coupled to the amplifier and a controller coupled to the load sensing circuit. A monitoring device has one or more sensors and a unique user ID. The one or more sensors acquire user information selected from of at least one of, a user'"'"'s activities, behaviors and habit information. The monitoring device includes an ID circuitry. A communication interface receives information about the unique user ID when the load sensing circuit indicates the monitoring device is within the wireless field. The indication is created using at least a change in power consumption.

Claims

1. A wireless power transmission system, comprising:

a transmit antenna that in operation produces a wireless field;

an amplifier coupled to the transmit antenna;

a load sensing circuit coupled to the amplifier;

a controller coupled to the load sensing circuit;

a monitoring device with a microphone and sensors to determine air quality, sound level, light quality and ambient temperature near a person;

an accelerometer configured to detect a person'"'"'s movement information, the accelerometer and the monitoring device configured to assist to determine a person'"'"'s sleep information and sleep behavior information , the microphone configured to record the person'"'"'s movement sounds detected by the accelerometer, the recording of sensors that determine sound level, light quality and ambient temperature relative to the person'"'"'s sleep information and sleep behavior information, the recording of the sensors beginning a stoppage of the monitoring in response to the accelerator detection of movement information; and

a communication interface that in operation receives information about a unique user ID when the load sensing circuit indicates the monitoring device is within the wireless field, the indication created using at least a change in power consumption.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the load sensing circuit in operation produces a response signal representative of the changes in power consumption.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to determine, at least one of a presence of another device within the wireless field or the information of the device previously indicated to be within the wireless field.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising

a wireless communicator coupled to the controller, the wireless communicator configured to communicate with the monitoring device over a communication channel different from a wireless communication channel used to generate the wireless field, wherein the controller is further configured to monitor the information from the communication channel.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising:

a second monitoring device with a receive antenna in the wireless field and wherein the communication channel is configured for a peer-to-peer communication between the device and the another device.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the different communication channel is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data communication channel.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller in operation monitors and processes additional information about another monitoring device with a receive antenna in the wireless field to generate additional notification information.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory configured to store at least one of the information about the monitoring device or the notification information.