Methods, systems, and products for measuring health

• US 9,734,542 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2013
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Miller, II, Robert R., Ji, Lusheng, Chang, Hisao
• Primary Examiner(s): Gort, Elaine
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hein, Devin
• Application Number:
  US14/066,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20140058745A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,385 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• 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

Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. Often times a weight scale, blood pressure monitor, or other medical measurement device is shared among a group of users. A time-stamped physiological measurement is compared to a time-stamped message from a mobile device. If the timestamps are contemporaneous, then the physiological measurement is bound to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of measuring health, comprising:

receiving, at a server, a time-stamped digital recording of a spoken phrase sent via the Internet from a mobile device, the mobile device associated with an Internet protocol address;

receiving, at the server, a time-stamped physiological measurement sent via the Internet from a medical measurement device, the medical measurement device associated with a different Internet protocol address;

determining, by the server, that the time-stamped digital recording of the spoken phrase sent via the Internet is contemporaneous with the time-stamped physiological measurement sent via the Internet based on genres of music associated with the mobile device;

querying, by the server, an electronic database for the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device, the electronic database storing electronic associations between names and Internet protocol addresses;

identifying, by the server, a group of the names in the electronic database, each name in the group of the names electronically associated with the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device;

determining, by the server, that the medical measurement device is a shared device in response to the group of the names identified in the electronic database;

selecting, by the server, a single name from among the group of the names identified in the electronic database; and

binding, by the server, the time-stamped physiological measurement to the single name in response to the genres of music associated with the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining the time-stamped digital recording of the spoken phrase is not contemporaneous with the time-stamped physiological measurement.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising declining to bind the single name to the time-stamped physiological measurement.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising executing a voice recognition software application that identifies the single name from the time-stamped digital recording of the spoken phrase.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating the group of the names to the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising applying the voice recognition software application to the group of the names identified in the electronic database to reduce a pool of candidates.

7. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory device, the memory device storing code, the code when executed causing the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving a time-stamped digital recording of a spoken phrase sent via the Internet from a mobile device, the mobile device associated with an Internet protocol address;

receiving a time-stamped physiological measurement sent via the Internet from a medical measurement device, the medical measurement device associated with a different Internet protocol address;

determining that the time-stamped digital recording of the spoken phrase is contemporaneous with the time-stamped physiological measurement based on genres of music associated with the mobile device;

querying an electronic database for the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device, the electronic database electronically associating names and Internet protocol addresses;

identifying a group of the names in the electronic database, each name in the group of the names electronically associated with the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device;

determining that the medical measurement device is a shared device in response to the group of the names identified in the electronic database;

determining a single name from among the group of the names via a voice-recognition software applied to the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase; and

binding the time-stamped physiological measurement to the single name in the electronic database in response to the genres of music associated with the mobile device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise determining the time-stamped digital recording of the spoken phrase is not contemporaneous with the time-stamped physiological measurement.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise declining to bind the single name to the time-stamped physiological measurement.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise associating the group of the names to the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device.

11. A non-transitory memory device storing code that when executed causes a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a time-stamped digital recording of a spoken phrase sent via the Internet from a mobile device, the mobile device associated with an Internet protocol address;

receiving a time-stamped physiological measurement sent via the Internet from a medical measurement device, the medical measurement device associated with a different Internet protocol address;

determining a window of time based on genres of music stored by the mobile device;

determining to a difference in time between the time-stamped digital recording of the spoken phrase and the time-stamped physiological measurement;

comparing the difference in time to the window of time determined from the genres of music associated with the mobile device;

determining the time-stamped digital recording of the spoken phrase is contemporaneous with the time-stamped physiological measurement in response to the difference in time being within the window of time determined from the genres of music associated with the mobile device;

querying an electronic database for the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device, the electronic database electronically associating names and Internet protocol addresses;

identifying a group of the names in the electronic database, each name in the group of the names electronically associated with the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device;

determining that the medical measurement device is a shared device in response to the group of the names identified in the electronic database;

determining a single name from among the group of the names via a voice-recognition software applied to the time-stamped recording of the spoken phrase; and

binding the time-stamped physiological measurement to the single name in the electronic database in response to the determining that the time-stamped digital recording of the spoken phrase is contemporaneous with the time-stamped physiological measurement based on the genres of music associated with the mobile device.

12. The non-transitory memory device of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise associating the group of the names to the different Internet protocol address associated with the medical measurement device.

13. The non-transitory memory device of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a dominant genre of the genres of music associated with the mobile device, the dominant genre having a greatest cumulative playing time; and

querying a database for the dominant genre having the greatest cumulative playing time, the database electronically associating windows of time to the genres of music; and

identifying the window of time in the database that is electronically associated with the dominant genre having a greatest cumulative playing time.