Information processing apparatus, server apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and recording medium recording information processing program therein

• US 9,592,033 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2013
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Toriumi, Satoko, Suzuki, Fumie, Otsuka, Reina, Fukuda, Mutsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Benlagsir, Amine
• Application Number:
  US14/238,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20150145693A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,506 Days
• Field of Search: 340/870.01, 340/870.17
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0012 Ovulation-period determination for animals A61D17/002
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2010/0019 based on measurement of temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0008 Temperature signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/024 for remote indication
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 13/20 Clinical contact thermometers for use with humans or animals
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention causes an alarm output means to output an alarm at a preset time, causes the alarm output means to stop outputting the alarm when a stop instruction is input by a user while the alarm is being output, and makes a transition to a standby state in which biological information wirelessly transmitted from a measurement instrument can be received in response to the stop of the alarm.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

at least one memory operable to store program code;

at least one processor operable to access said memory and read said program code and operate as instructed by said program code, said program code including;

receive code configured to cause said at least one processor to receive a biological information, wirelessly transmitted from a measurement instrument being used by a user to measure the biological information, when a data reception function is set ON to receive data from the measurement instrument through wireless transmission;

output control code configured to cause said at least one processor to output an alarm at a preset time;

stop control code configured to cause said at least one processor to, when a stop instruction is input by the user while the alarm is being output, stop the output of the alarm; and

transition control code configured to cause said at least one processor to automatically make a transition, in response to the output of the alarm being stopped, from a non-standby state, which is a first power mode and in which the data reception function is set OFF, to a standby state, which is a second power mode and in which the data reception function is set ON, such that the biological information wirelessly transmitted from the measurement instrument, is received by the receive code, the first power mode having lower power consumption than the second power mode.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the biological information is not received from the measurement instrument within a first predetermined time after the transition to the standby state, the output control code is further configured to cause said at least one processor to output alarm again after a second predetermined time.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first setting code configured to cause said at least one processor to set ON or OFF a re-output function of outputting the alarm again after a second predetermined time after the alarm is stopped,

wherein when the re-output function is set ON, if the biological information is received from the measurement instrument within a first predetermined time after the transition to the standby state, the first setting code is further configured to cause said at least one processor to set OFF the re-output function.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

measurement code configured to cause said at least one processor to measure a time until the biological information is received after the alarm is stopped; and

second setting code configured to cause said at least one processor to set a transition time until the standby state is brought after the alarm is stopped based on the time measured by the measurement code,

wherein when the transition time set by the second setting code elapses after the alarm is stopped, the transition control code is further configured to cause said at least one processor to make the transition to the standby state in which the biological information is receivable.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the at least one memory is configured to store a history of times measured by the measurement code for a plurality of setting contents containing at least an alarm setting time,

wherein the second setting code is further configured to cause said at least one processor to set the transition time for the setting contents based on the measurement history, and

when the transition time corresponding to the setting contents elapses after the alarm output according to the setting contents by the output control code is stopped, the transition control code is further configured to cause said at least one processor to make the transition to the standby state in which the biological information is receivable.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second setting code configured to cause said at least one processor to set a transition time until the standby state is brought after the alarm is stopped based on at least a time required to measure the biological information by the measurement instrument,

wherein when the transition time set by the second setting code elapses after the alarm is stopped, the output control code is further configured to cause said at least one processor to make the transition to the standby state in which the biological information is receivable.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the alarm is a wake-up alarm.

8. An information processing method performed by a computer, including at least one processor, the method comprising:

receiving a biological information, wirelessly transmitted from a measurement instrument being used by a user to measure the biological information, when a data reception function is set ON to receive data from the measurement instrument through wireless transmission;

outputting, by said at least one processor, an alarm at a preset time;

when a stop instruction is input by the user while the alarm is being output, stopping, by said at least one processor, the alarm; and

automatically transitioning, by said at least one processor, in response to the stop of the alarm, from a non-standby state, which is a first power mode and in which the data reception function is set OFF, to a standby state, which is a second power mode and in which the data reception function is set ON, such that the biological information wirelessly transmitted from the measurement instrument is received, the first power mode having lower power consumption than the second power mode.

9. A server apparatus to which an information processing apparatus is connectable via a network, including at least one processor, comprising:

a memory configured to store a program code; and

the at least one processor operable to access said memory and read said program code and operate as instructed by said program code, said program code including;

receive code configured to cause said at least one processor to receive a biological information, wirelessly transmitted from a measurement instrument being used by a user to measure the biological information, when a data reception function is set ON to receive data from the measurement instrument through wireless transmission;

output control code configured to cause said at least one processor to output an alarm at a preset time,

stop control code configured to cause said at least one processor to, when a stop instruction is input by the user while the alarm is being output, stop the output of the alarm, and

transition control code configured to cause said at least one processor to automatically make a transition, in response to the output of the alarm being stopped, from a non-standby state, which is a first power mode and in which the data reception function is set OFF, to a standby state, which is a second power mode and in which the data reception function is set ON, such that the biological information wirelessly transmitted from the measurement instrument is received, the first power mode having lower power consumption than the second power mode; and

a transmitter, within said at least one processor, that transmits the information processing program to the information processing apparatus in response to a request from the information processing apparatus capable of executing the information processing program.